Swimmer's Daily

  • Ice Swimming in the back of a forest with fresh snow covered trees. Facing the cold of a Canadian winter.

  • Cullen Jones is a four-time Olympic medalist and the first African American swimmer to hold a world record, and while his time competing in the pool may be finished, his work there is far from done. 

    Since earning his first Olympic medal in 2008, Jones has made it his mission to help others learn how to swim, with a focus on bridging the minority swimming gap and diversifying the sport that changed his life.

    “I wanted my platform to be kind of like a Tiger or a Serena and Venus or a Jackie Robinson where it’s okay to do this sport — it’s okay. There were people before me, mind you, there were a ton of people before me, but I was blessed enough to be part of a relay that the world saw,” Jones said. “I wanted to use that platform to try to be a role model as best I could and a way for me to be able to do that was to get people to understand how important it is to learn how to swim.”

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  • British Swim School has relocated its national headquarters to Virginia Beach from Florida, and a longtime Virginia Beach resident has opened a franchise here to help locals learn life-saving techniques.

    “I decided that we needed to have a British Swim School here in this location because Virginia Beach is surrounded by water: The Atlantic Ocean, the Chesapeake Bay, the rivers and a lot of swimming pools,” explained Chuck Cassidy, the owner of British Swim School Virginia Beach.

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  • Connor Sturgill takes a look at the life of high school swimmer and a closer look at the sport itself.

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  • Liliana Ibáñez is a 2x Olympic swimmer from Mexico. She holds National Records in the 50/100/200 Free — both in SCM and LCM. Lili is also one of those people that naturally radiates positivity. You can hear her smiling when she talks.

  • Jenna and Ciera Fujiwara visited us from Hawaii to work with coach Gary in San Diego. Ciera has incredible shoulder flexibility allowing her to recover her arms straight above her head. Coupled with a late breath this technique can be the fastest way to swim butterfly with the likes of Joseph Schooling and Rikako Ikee. This technique isn’t for everyone as Ciera’s sister Jenna has better success with a wider/lower arm recovery. Find out what makes Ciera a perfect candidate for this technique and how we use swim drills to improve!

  • “The global underwater camera market has witnessed significant growth in recent years,” Fior says. “This growth is attributed to the rapid urbanization and increasing consumer spending capacity of the consumers, increasing penetration of the Internet and the rising influence of social media, and rising adoption of underwater cameras.”

    Fior says that increased demand for what it calls “high-performance” underwater cameras will propel the market forward. These cameras would be the kind that is specially designed to capture images and videos underwater, primarily by consumers who are enjoying snorkeling or swimming but also for those that are remotely operated by underwater vehicles.

    “The global underwater camera market is expected to witness significant growth, owing to the growing trend of sharing videos and photos over networking sites, advancements in technology, and the growing popularity of smart action underwater camera,” Fior claims. “The factors hampering the market growth are lack of awareness among individuals in some regions and the high cost of the products.”

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