How To Train For Open Water Swimming?
There are innumerable way to optimally train for an open water swim. Here is a brief how-to of the open water swimming world:
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Kosatka DV Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
Kosatka DV, led by Oleg Dokuchaev, was announced by World Open Water Swimming Association as its 2020 World Open Water Offering of the Year in the annual WOWSA Awards
Bucket Lists Of Ice Swimming
Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. There are all kinds of Bucket Swims. The bucket swims can be personal or established, domestic or international, short or long. A bucket swim is an open water swim that individuals have dreamed about and wants to do before they pass away. They can be of any distance in any location depending on the
Differences In Governing Bodies
With the growth of open water swimming around the world, there are also a growing number of governing bodies, associations, sanctioning body and federations that are being founded to oversee solo swims, races and relays across local open bodies of water in their area. What organizations have the priority? What organizations are the "real" governing
Tyumen Winter Swimming Championships In Siberia
The Tyumen extreme swimming championships schedule is as follows: The 2-day winter swimming championship starts on December 15th, but swimmers must register the day before on December 14th. On the 14th, Ram Barkai, Ryan Stramrood and Kieron Palframan will also be present at a press conference devoted to their upcoming Bering swim in 2013. Day One on
Exploring Extremes, Swimming In Siberia
Ram Barkai, Ryan Stramrood and Kieron Palframan will be heading to Siberia in mid-winter for a swim in a frozen river. Without their fellow International Ice Swimming Association co-founders Toks Viviers and Andrew Chin, the 3 South Africans are heading to a town called Tyumen to join many other swimmers coming from around the world to an extreme ice swim.
Should Extreme Swimming Be In The Olympics?
One of the most fascinating topics at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California will be the discussions on how to get
Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon Booms Quickly
UTAH. How times are changing. Registration opened for the Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon Swim opened up at precisely 12:00 midnight on New Year's day 2012. Between the two events (1 mile and 8 miles), the longer marathon swim filled up in less than two days. The 8-mile race is capped at 12 swimmers, but last year it took 6 weeks to fill up. Race
Discover Your Inner Polar Bear – Expand Your Open Water Season
Bruckner Chase, Swimming & Ocean Sports Editor of the Liberty Sports Magazine, provides this winter swimming commentary and advice: As a Master swim team, the Dolphin Club has some of the best-attended swim workouts and club events in the country. Members from age 20-80 log impressive yardage throughout the year, and not a single yard is in water over 62°F
Meeting Of The Sun, An All-Star Extreme Team To Swim Across The Bering Strait
"That is going to be the tricky thing - swimming for a short 20-minute swim for 4-5 times over a 24-30 hour period," explained British extreme swimmer Jack Bright about the most extreme relay swim possible - a crossing of the entire width of the Bering Strait, slight below the Arctic Circle. Alexander Brylin, President of the AQUICE-sport Federation and Head