Swimming a mile in the open water can range from very difficult and challenging to very easy and
enjoyable depending on your level of experience and expertise.
Let's look at the various possibilities for four general types of swimmers:
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Fast Experienced Swimmers
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Fast Inexperienced Swimmers
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Average
Shooting The Gap and Other Open Water Swimming Moves Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While there will not be any coastal ocean races in California and Florida or anywhere else in America this summer, other countries and coastal communities will offer some racing as the COVID-19 pandemic gets under control. What are some examples of
Karen Burton Talks About Swimming Around The World On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Reeder, née Burton took a trip down memory lane during today's WOWSA Live interview. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer and Air Force Academy graduate from Colorado described her professional marathon
The World Open Water Swimming Association offers a list of 100 Things Every Open Water Swimmer Should Know. Its coaches will share this information and tidbits with newbies and veterans at its upcoming Open Water Summit in Redondo Beach in Southern California on October 4th - 6th 2019. General Principles1. Expect the unexpected.2. Predictable
Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Be Race Ready podcast episode #11 is posted online. Coach Gerry Rodrigues discusses the essentials of open water swimming from the requisite skills to the simplest sighting technique. Tower 26's Rodrigues describes the need for sighting, changes in speed, pack swimming, take-out speed, buoy turns,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Endless Pools are extremely useful, compact, free-standing pools with swim current generators that enable swimming in place. The pools can be used year-round and in locations (e.g., homes and training centers) where a normal size swimming pools may not be practical. The Endless Pools come in
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Drafting in a pool workout means usually takes the form of leaving only a few seconds behind the swimmer in front of you or catching up to the swimmer ahead of you during a set. But drafting in the open water can take on an entirely different paradigm. Open water swimmers can swim next to (or above or
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Webber Wave Pools are meant for surfers who would create a dynamic market for their artificial wave pools, we think that these types of wave pools would serve as outstanding training facilities for triathletes and ocean swimmers interested in learning how to deal with the dynamics of the open
Courtesy of Mike Pickles Photography at The Five in Hong Kong. When a pack of swimmers splits into two smaller packs, stay with one group or the other. Do not swim in-between the two packs and get no benefit from drafting. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of Champion Mindset Consulting. From the mid-1980's to the early 1990's, Shelley Taylor-Smith dominated the professional marathon swimming community as she was ranked No. 1 for 7 consecutive years by the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation, won four 25 km world championships, and uniquely ranked No. 1 - overall for both men and women -
