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My New Year’s resolution: One picture released every day

Dec 31, 2011

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Fun

As of today, I’ll be releasing one swim photo each day, at least for a year, under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. And maybe more, if it turns out to be a positive experience.

First photo is the one that I use as header image here on Swimmer’s Daily, of media people diving into the Roma 2009 pool during the traditional fun event.

I’m almost sure that the tiger-leaping guy is the No. 1 swimming photographer Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia, who quite fittingly for many years has been releasing swim photos “free for any use except advertisement.”

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Amaury Leveaux is somewhere really nice

Dec 31, 2011

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by

rokur

in Competition

Apparently on the beach during the XXIII Meeting de Natation de l’OcÃ©an Indien on RÃ©union Island in the Indian Ocean. Gee, I hate videos of blue sky and beach sounds and small fishes taking it easy in shallow water, on a rainy and freezing Faroese winter day like this ! :-P
More pushup fun from VÃ¡gur

Dec 31, 2011

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rokur

in Can you do this?, Dryland, Fun, Training

This time HÃ¸gni Simonsen and PÃ¡l Joensen’s kid brother EyÃ°bjÃ¸rn Joensen.
Anderson Cooper swimming with sharks

Dec 30, 2011

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rokur

in Nature

“You’re on a boat. You’re in the middle of nowhere, and you see these enormous sharks in the water,” Andy tells Overtime producer David Rubin. “They’re basically circling your boat. They say, you know, ‘sharks do not consider humans food. You don’t have to worry.’ You’re like, that’s good, that’s great. But did all the sharks get the memo?”

Read CBS News
Four young girls in VÃ¡gi doing fun pushups

Dec 29, 2011

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rokur

in Can you do this?, Dryland, Training

A fun dryland group pushup exercise demonstrated here by SuÃ°uroyar Svimjifelag‘s SÃ³lrun KjÃ¦rbo (12), Kristina Elin Thomsen (13), Tanja Skaalum (14) and GuÃ°run Mortensen (14). GuÃ°run holds the Faroese women’s 50 freestyle (senior) short course record of 26.04, Kristina Elin the 100 butterfly junior record of 1:05.45.
Ryan Lochte’s back to breast IM transition turn

Dec 29, 2011

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by

rokur

in Technique

Maybe a bit old footage here, given that he is wearing a full body suit, but still a good demonstration of this tricky turn. Rules are as you undoubtedly know, that you have to end your backstroke on your back before turning and starting the breaststroke, which is why he touches the wall ever so slightly.

Here is Eric Shanteau doing the same turn with more of a somersault, where again you have to take care that you are more on your breast than your back when starting the breaststroke. Courtesy of GoSwim :-)
Video: Phelps winning the Shanghai 2011 men’s 100 butterfly

Dec 29, 2011

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rokur

in Competition

A review here in extremely good quality, including ultra slow motion footage and the medal ceremony. Winner Michael Phelps (USA) in 50.71, silver Konrad Czerniak (POL) in 51.15 and bronze Tyler McGill (USA) in 51.26.
Swimming may improve bone resistance to impact

Dec 28, 2011

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rokur

in Science

Taiwanese professor Huang Tsang-hai made rats swim for an hour a day, five days a week for eight weeks, and then measured and compared their bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) with a control group. The swimming rats lost both BMD and BMC, possibly because of weight loss, but when the femurs of the rats were broken, it took longer to completely sever the bones of those in the swimming group than in the control group. Read Focus Taiwan

(River rat, picture courtesy of Karen Morris, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Roland Schoeman tears forearm muscle, out for 4-6 weeks

Dec 27, 2011

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rokur

in Competition, Gossip, Health

Bad news on Roland Schoeman’s twitter account, he has somehow torn his pronator teres, putting him out of the water for 4-6 weeks. Via The Swimmers Circle.

http://twitter.com/#!/Rolandschoeman/status/151221752830230528