Gary Hall Senior explains the law of inertia here, which is the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, which is one of the reasons that we need a strong kick. Great drills too. Via www.theraceclub.net.
British Gas Swimming Championships 2011 – a round up of all the action from the Championships at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.
At the Norwegian short course championships today, Aleksander Hetland and Alexander Dale Oen met in the 50 breaststroke, Hetland having won bronze in the Dubai 2010 World short course championships, and Dale Oen being the European champion in the 100 long course breaststroke. During prelims Hetland was faster, also leading the first half of the final, but then Dale Oen came back strong, tying Hetland with a 27.61. Coaches comment that it wasn’t a good race for neither of them, as they are a bit worn out, but that it means a lot to have them competing against each other on home turf. Source: Aftenposten.
Frรยฉdรยฉrick Bousquet and Alain Bernard posted the first sub-22 second 50 freestyles of the year today at the Championnats de France de Natatation, Bousquet swimming 21.82 and Bernard 21.98. Camille Muffat set a second-best this year in the 100 free, clocking 53.97 where Heemskerk posted 53.70 earlier this month. Denmark’s Rikke Mรยธller Pedersen won the 50 breaststroke in 31.85, and Hugues Duboscq the 200 breast in 2:11.99. Sources: Swimmingworld Magazine and SwimNews.com.
Athletes are increasingly using ice baths to stimulate recovery, as seen in this ClubWolverine video with Mike Bottom about swimming recovery. A more high-tech alternative is the cryosauna, where liquid nitrogen is turned into freezing gas, plunging the temperature below -200 degrees Fahrenheit (-128 degrees Celcius), for instance used by ‘Mad Scientist’ Alberto Salazar.
The body believes that it is dying and rushes blood to protect its vital organs. Two minutes later, when the athlete emerges from the container, the concentrated and enriched blood rushes back through the body, providing an instant cleanse and relief.
Source The Wall Street Journal via Neatorama.
Arnold Lande, a retired American heart and lung surgeon, has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe รขโฌลliquid airรขโฌย, a special solution that has been highly enriched with oxygen molecules. รขโฌลThe first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex,รขโฌย explains Lande, a 79-year-old inventor from St Louis, Missouri. รขโฌลBut once that oxygenated liquid is inside your lungs it would feel just like breathing air.รขโฌย
Sounds like The Abyss to me …
Source The Independent via Swimming is Easy.
Eleuthera, Bahamas is named after the Greek word for รขโฌลfreedom,รขโฌย Eleuthera is 110 miles long and just a mile at its widest. To the east is the occasionally wild Atlantic, to the west a shallow, usually calm Caribbean Sea. The waters on both sides are ideal for swimming. Unless, of course, you donรขโฌโขt know how to swim, which is the case for 80 percent of the Eleuthera islanders. Taught to fear the ocean, even some of the fishermen who make their living off the sea can only dog paddle. A pair of young American women are trying to erase that aquatic inability, founding Swim to Empower, an organization that teaches people of all ages to swim. Read this interesting article about the efforts, and watch out for the documentary Free Swim.
A good read here 0n diversityinaquatics.com …
Water is a magnet for all children.รย It is fun.รย It is soothing.รย Water is the ultimate, non-threatening hug.รย As an adult, what is your reaction when you sink into a hot bath?รย Or sip a cool glass of water on a hot day? รย Aaaaaahhhhhhh.รย Exactly.รย Now magnify that attraction and that reaction by 100 and youรขโฌโขll know exactly what an autistic child feels like when they are immersed in water.
18-year-old Yannick Agnel demolished the French record in 400 freestyle, at the Championnat de France today, swimming 3:43.85 where his French record from the European Championships where he beat Biedermann last summer was 3:46.17. Rouault followed him up until the last 100, from when Agnel took more than 3 seconds out of him, winning silver with the time of 3:47.42. Danish swimmer Mads Glรยฆsner was third with 3:51.88.
In the women’s 800 freestyle, Danish European champion Lotte Friis won gold with 8:24.52, not so far off her 8:23.27 European championships winning time from Budapest last summer. And in the 200 breaststroke, also Danish European bronze winner Rikke Mรยธller Pedersen won gold with 1:07.52, compared to a 1:07.36 in Budapest 2010.
Source: SwimNews.com
