34-year-old Michael Klim was due to swim his first race in more than 4 1/2 years at a low-key Nunawading club meet at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre today, but decided to withdraw after advice from his physiotherapist a coach, because of a neck strain that he got from doing weights on a three-week altitude camp in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Read The Herald Sun.
Image courtesy of Blaise Alleyne, cc by-sa 2.0
So, my good American friends, I am really confused by this: At Norwood High in Massachusetts, boys compete on girls teams because their schools do not have boys swimming programs. Able to do so because the open access amendments to the state constitution mandates that boys and girls must be afforded equal access to athletics.
I get that.
But, now they compete in the same heats, taking top seeds from the girls, possibly becoming the girls state champion? Get to swim in the girls’ relays, knock them off the awards podium, making it hard for the girls to qualify for All-Star honors? Get to even break the girls’ sectional records?
Impressive, the stray dog Bob dives easily to depths of eight feet to fish out his toys. And we get a glimpse of the Canadian sport Octo-Pushing, a kind of underwater hockey where swimmers use home-made sticks to push a weighted puck around the bottom of a swimming pool. And of someone tumbling on a scooter. Via witn.com
It is only day two of the shooting of SWIM. – Short Movie, and already there is a bit of a crisis. Or not :-)
SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day Two from SWIM. – Short Film on Vimeo.
Aaah, Principal Fradley has surely learned a lesson about motivation, promising to swim with the sharks at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, if his students raised more than $20,000 at a Walk-A-Thon in September.
“I really didn’t think they would do it, because last year we raised $12,000,” Dr. Fradley said.
Oh well, they did, and the good doctor therefore has to don a scuba kit today. Thirty Wakeland students who raised more than $150 get to watch it. Get your popcorn out, the head is going down ! :-)
Via ABC Action News
Boyd Matson of National Geographic Weekend spent a week following humpback whales in the wild with Tom Conlin of Aquatic Adventures. Read more and listen to the radio interview on National Geographic News Watch.
The USA Swimming Sports Medicine and Science Committee has recently reviewed the risks and benefits related to energy drinks, and concludes that children and teens should avoid them. “Sports drinks” like Gatorade are OK, meaning drinks containing a small amount of carbohydrates, minerals, electrolytes and flavorings, designed to replace those nutrients lost through sweating after exercise.But energy drinks containing stimulants like caffeine, guarana, yerba mate and taurine should be avoided, as for instance excess consumption of caffeine is associated with agitation, anxiety, poor sleep, rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure and altered mental states, and can mask fatigue.
Too much caffeine can mask fatigue. Gauging fatigue is important to staying fit, healthy and in the pool. If jacked up on caffeine, swimmers may miss the body’s signal for rest.
Read more here on USA Swimming, Image courtesy of Simon le Nippon, cc by-sa 2.0
Courtesy of sportsvibe.co.uk
So I have a weakness for freediving, deal with it :-)
Freedance (Freediving in Bozburun) from mert gokalp on Vimeo.
