Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the last three years, Dan Projansky has been absolutely [Vicki] Keith-like* with miles upon miles of butterfly traveled in various open bodies of water. In addition to this weekend's 36 miles swum butterfly* over 15 hours 22 minutes that he just completed at yesterday's END-WET**, he also did 27 miles
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brian Suddeth, an American butterflyer, updated the global open water swimming butterfly list. His calculations below list many of the speediest and hardiest distance butterflyers in the world. The list shows how fast they are in miles per hour (mph) in various swims around the globe, regardless if they
John Wooden, a famous American basketball coach at U.C.L.A., defined success as a peace of mind, attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you made the effort to do the best that you are capable of. When we see swimmers strive but not complete an open water swim or crossing, John Wooden's definition of success seem extremely relevant. Often,
Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros who recently completed the first butterfly crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar, created the song Hip-HopenWater Nadandolibre together with Jose Diaz. The lyrics in both Spanish and English are below: Sale sol amanece en Australia, nadadores, tiburones blancos nadan en las aguas de Italia. Pocas horas para la
Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros completed the first butterfly crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar. Coached and promoted by Jose Diaz, the former competitive swimmer known by his nickname HHector in the hip hop world, completed the 14 km crossing in 7 hours 5 minutes. It was interesting to see his escort boat function as a lead boat. The boat was positioned
Over the thousands of years of recorded human history, mankind has traveled from Europe to Africa in multiple ways and with all kinds of forms of transportation. But no one has traversed from Europe to Africa via the Strait of Gibraltar doing butterfly. On Sunday September 8th, Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros escorted by his Nadandolibre teammates will launch
No one has traversed from Europe to Africa via the Strait of Gibraltar doing butterfly until today. Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros escorted by Jose Diaz and his Nadandolibre teammates completed the first butterfly crossing in 7 hours 5 minutes. More information on the unprecedented butterfly crossing is here. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
Spanish open water swimmer HHector (Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros) introduced the first hip-hop theme song to the global open water swimming community (with his HipHopenWater Nadandolibre produced for Nadandolibre). And now his hip hop influence and that of Nadandolibre is spreading around the open water swimming world. The Bloody Big Swim has been
Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros will attempt to cross the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco butterfly. His attempt is managed by Nadando Libre's Jose Diaz and is called Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros, Nadando Libre, Récord del mundo en el cruce a nado del Estrecho de Gibraltar al estilo MARIPOSA. Nadando Libre will help escort Héctor from Punta Oliveros in
With swimmers from Africa and Europe to the Americas, Oceania and Asia doing more and more non-freestyle swims in the open water, the issue of how to define butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke in the open water has been a topic in the global open water swimming community for some time.* The World Open Water Swimming Association developed an initial
