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Swim the Island Sirmione 2020
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Rowdy Gaines advocates for reopening of pools amid pandemic
Rowdy Gaines’s passion for swimming is evident.
“The reason why I keep doing the broadcast and NBC hires me, is the fact that I really show my passion,” NBC Olympic Swimming analyst and USA Swimming Director of Community Engagement Rowdy Gaines says.
“I was so frustrated… To be able to reach out to those policymakers and those public officials and say, ‘It’s OK. We can do this safely.’ And all we’re trying to do is to prioritize opening pools for instructional purpose-driven aquatics, that’s the key in all this. We’re not saying ‘hey, swing open the doors and let all these large crowds come in.’ We’re saying we can do this, and we can do it safely,” Rowdy Gaines says.
And now, he tries to educate parents and the public, on the safety of swimming.
“It’s the only sport in the world, that can literally save your life,” Gaines says. “You’re talking especially about our underserved communities, where an African-American child is five times more likely to drown than a Caucasian child. To me? That’s important to do something about it.”
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Butterfly Biondi | Improving the Timing of Butterfly Breathing | Propulsion Swimming
This week’s video from Propulsion Swimming is a butterfly tutorial on a drill called Biondi. This swim drill is a fun and effective way to learn the butterfly swimming technique and one of the best butterfly drills for competitive swimmers.
Biondi is a butterfly drill named after American swimmer, 11-time Olympic medallist and former world record holder, Matt Biondi.
Anchoring your forearms is one of the main aims of swimming butterfly. This improves your fly technique and gets you to know how to enhance your powerful butterfly swimming.
As well as the arm pull, the butterfly kick is also very important. Having a strong dolphin kick and a good dolphin kick technique will help greatly with your butterfly swimming and will improve your butterfly technique very quickly.
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This Changes Everything | Effortless Swimming
6-1-6 Drill is one of my favourite drills for improving body position, balance and rotation, but often swimmers will make THESE mistake crucial mistakes when doing the drill.
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Nadia Cruz, Angola Treasure Candidature to WOA
Nadia Cruz, 4th Olympic Swimmer from Angola is a Candidate to Treasure position on World Olympians Association, Executive Board Elections for 2020 to 2024
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Man drowns, another hospitalized after emergency in Haulover Inlet
A man has died and another is recovering after they were pulled from the water near Haulover Park.
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Mosley swimmer and diver Alex Fulton breaking records and aiming high for his future
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Paralysed Man Saves Swimmer At Same Place He Injured Himself Years Earlier
A disabled man threw himself in the water from a pier to save the life of another man, while he was filming a documentary about how he became paralysed by throwing himself off the same pier.
You couldn’t make it up.
Nikita Vankov, who is a licensed paradiver, was up on the pier in the Russian town of Anapa when he spotted two people in the sea trying to help an ailing man out of the water on 6 October.
Being a paradiver, he decided to help out, so without hesitation he cast himself out of the wheelchair and into the water to aid the effort to rescue the stricken swimmer.
He began by shouting some instructions to the two people in the water, but when it became clear that it wasn’t going to work, he undressed himself and diving into the Black Sea.
Incidentally, Mr Vankov is Russia’s first certified paradiver and swims and dives for a living.
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