Protecting The Feet In Ice Swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the ice and snow creeping closer and closer to the ice swimmers competing in the frozen Lake Wöhrsee at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany, it is interesting to see how many swimmers wear Crocs in and out of the water.
Easier to slip in and out compared to boots or flip flops because their feet are so cold, Crocs are an indispensible part of some ice swimmer’s gear.*
* But the South African ice swimmers are the Crocs holdouts and still insist to wear their flip-flops in the ice.
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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.
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