Heading Around Huntington
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
Swim Long Beach, an ocean and pool swimming pod, and the Open Water Swim Club, had an early morning ocean practice around the Huntington Beach pier yesterday.
The practice around the longest concrete pier on the West Coast of the Americas was a tune-up for the 64th annual Huntington Beach Pier Swim.
Led by record holding waterman Hank Wise and famed Hollywood stuntwoman Katie Rowe as the sun rose over the horizon, the team including Lyle Nalli and Kellyn Carlson did some practice starts, hugged the pier going out, and did some bodysurfing back towards shore that was caught on video.
Swimmers and triathletes in Southern California will have a wide variety of open water events to choose from this Saturday.
They can enter the all-out 800m sprint with a big-wave bodysurfing finish in Huntington Beach, the long-established Seal Beach Rough Water Swim in the calmer, warmer waters to the north with events for children and adults of all ages, or freshwater, flat-water the SoCal Cup Open Water Championships held in Castaic Lake during the off-day of the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships. It’s a 3-for-1 weekend in Southern California.
Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association 
Swim Long Beach, an ocean and pool swimming pod, and the Open Water Swim Club, had an early morning ocean practice around the Huntington Beach pier yesterday.
The practice around the longest concrete pier on the West Coast of the Americas was a tune-up for the 64th annual Huntington Beach Pier Swim.
Led by record holding waterman Hank Wise and famed Hollywood stuntwoman Katie Rowe as the sun rose over the horizon, the team including Lyle Nalli and Kellyn Carlson did some practice starts, hugged the pier going out, and did some bodysurfing back towards shore that was caught on video.
Swimmers and triathletes in Southern California will have a wide variety of open water events to choose from this Saturday.
They can enter the all-out 800m sprint with a big-wave bodysurfing finish in Huntington Beach, the long-established Seal Beach Rough Water Swim in the calmer, warmer waters to the north with events for children and adults of all ages, or freshwater, flat-water the SoCal Cup Open Water Championships held in Castaic Lake during the off-day of the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships. It’s a 3-for-1 weekend in Southern California.
Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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