U.S: Masters Swimming has posted videos here on Vimeo from the Protecting the Athletes: Open Water Swimming Safety Conference 19-20 March 2011 in San Francisco. This first video is Steve Munatones and Rob Butcher opening the conference.
Protecting Athletes: Open Water Safety Conference – Introduction from usmastersswimming on Vimeo.
Ouch, Brea Olinda’s Alec Boliver has delayed his brain surgery until Friday, so he could swim in Wednesday’s meet against Villa Park. Read ocvarsity.com.
Even the most in-shape swimmers feel pain during races, but Boliver encounters more than sore muscles.
He has cysts in the central part of his brain.
The cysts, and the pressure they create, have caused Boliver severe headaches for about three years.
The pounding increases when Boliver holds his breath under water, something he does regularly and strategically as a swimmer.
But Boliver hasn’t let the pain stop him from racing.
Read more here on ocvarsity.com.
It has been 50 years since anyone has been to the deepest point on the ocean floor, but now “Avatar” director James Cameron wants to go there, and British billionaire Richard Branson, and Triton Submarines CEO Bruce Jones, all in different projects. Cameron has commisioned a submarine made from high-tech composite materials, Branson will be ‘flying’ in his Virgin Oceanic craft, and Jones is patenting a special sphere made of glass, which they say has advantages over synthetics. Notice the obligatory evil squid reference.
“Glass under compression gets stronger,” said Rayotek CEO Bill Raggio. “You can hire some giant squid to come over with a sledgehammer and just start bashing away on that glass sphere. And it won’t hurt it.”
Nice one that he didn’t have time to put his stethoscope down, before going on air :-)
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The FINA Executives have decided to cancel the Sumidero Canyon Event part of the FINA Open Water Swimming GP Series scheduled to be held on the 7 May 2011. The decision has been reached following the recommendation of the FINA Sports Medicine Committee on the Water Quality in order to ensure the Health and Safety of the FINA Open Water Swimmers. See fina.org.
It is a well-known theory in sports and other fields, that it takes approximately 10.000 hours of practice to excel. But does this then also mean that anyone kan become excellent, if ‘only’ they put 10.000 hours of practice into it? American Dan McLaughlin is testing this, by practicing golf for 6 hours a day, 6 days a week for 6 years, in an attempt to go from being almost a novice in golf, to become a PGA golfer.
The Dan Plan from Dan McLaughlin on Vimeo.
Iceland’s Örn Arnarson wins gold here in the 200 freestyle at the European Junior Championships in Moscow 1999. His time 1:51.56 was almost a second off his then personal best time 1:50.63 from when he won silver at the European junior championships in Antwerpen the previous year, but still good enough to place him on top of the podium now. Yours truly was the shaky cameraman :-)
USA Swimming and AT&T follow Matt Grevers here outside the pool, 2 times Olympic gold medallist and 1 time olympic silver medallist. From he wakes up at 5:30 AM, until sometimes after his daily nap . I’m sorry to have to say this, but that guy eats a trashy breakfast. Otherwise, very inspiring :-)
