Teaching Open Water To The Next Generation Courtesy of WOWSA, Long Beach, California. Parents and coaches often ask how their young athletes can develop a passion and yearning for the open water. These 10 relatively easy steps to a good start: 1. Develop a love and appreciation for the coastline and shoreline. Allow the children to play at the lake,
Movie Night Before The La Jolla Cove Swim Courtesy of Element 8 Productions. Three California swimmers were featured in a documentary film, appropriately called Driven. Channel swimmers Fiona Goh, Cherie Edborg, and Evan Morrison are the featured swimmers in Driven, the brilliant documentary film by Ben Pitterle and Brian Hall of Element 8 Productions.
Trailer 2.0 from Element 8 Productions on Vimeo.Courtesy of Mark Johnston, Flathead Lake Open Water Swimmers, Montanaa. There are all kinds of cult and documentary swimming films and movies enjoyed by swimmers. The short and feature-length films are produced from Argentina and America to Germany and Great Britain with all kinds of story lines, mostly how
Julian Rusinek, a channel swimmer from California, talks about the documentary film DRIVEN: "DRIVEN penetrated directly into my strongest childhood memories. I wasn't watching a movie about swimming, I was being told a story. Rarely do we see a movie that is larger than the screen itself. DRIVEN by far was one of those movies that I became absorbed in its
If there is any place in America that would mirror the intensity and passion for open water swimming of Sandycove Island community in Ireland, it would be the California Channel Islands community with Santa Barbara being at its epicenter. Cold-water enthusiasts and channel swimming aficionados who desire to push the boundaries of what they are capable
Ben Pitterle received some great news today: his film Driven was selected to be in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February. Pitterle will announce details on the Driven Facebook page. The 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival offers films from 60 countries between January 30th and February 9th 2014. Driven stars young channel
Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association was ecstatic about the premiere of the film Driven over the weekend. He writes, "The film was a sell out and the theater had to turn away people at the door. The movie has everything...drama, action, laughter, disappointment and conquest. I thought it was one of the best documentaries I have
Dreamers Are Driven Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “It is there, you see it in front of you. And you go, ‘God I can do it’ and that is what drives these people. They dream..." says Steven Munatones. “To me, it is one of the ultimate challenges on the Planet Earth that a human can do. I mean you push yourself to the limit," says David
Without wetsuits, in the dead of night, three swimmers braved the cold open-ocean to realize a dream... ...so starts a marathon swimming documentary. Driven - The Marathon Swimming Documentary is the dramatic story behind Evan Morrison, Fiona Goh, and Cherie Edborg. The film will premier on October 19th at the Plaza Playhouse Theater in Carpinteria,
Who said this and what was being referred to? "...is the most challenging facet of the sport. It is the greatest feeling in the world, being in the ocean when it is at its wildest states. You are removing yourself from your comfort level, into a place where you are no longer entirely in control of what's happening around you. It's from this place of
