Swimming In South Bay + Santa Monica Courtesy of WOWSA, South Bay, Los Angeles, California. The South Bay stretches along the southern shores of Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles. With over 4.6 million people - and tens of thousands of daily beach visitors - all living and working within several kilometers of its wide beaches, it is no wonder that there is a
Pier 360 - 2 Days Of Southern California Beach Life Courtesy of Pier 360, Santa Monica Beach, California. Pier 360 or the Santa Monica Pier 360 - Ocean Sports & Beach Festival is a 2-day celebration of beach life with ocean swims held on June 22nd and 23rd at Santa Monica Beach in Southern California. The event includes a 1.2-mile ocean swim off the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Tower 26 workout on Santa Monica Beach, California with Amy Dantzler [smiling above]. How many times have you seen swimmers get up early for a morning practice, rubbing their eyes and moving slowly before getting in the water...and then smiling widely after getting out? So many swimmers move a lot faster and think a lot more positively
Part 3 of a series on Tower 26 ocean swimming workouts is courtesy of WOWSA. Early morning workouts in Santa Monica Beach can be tough, but the warm-ups, in's and out's to turn buoys, beach runs, sprints back to shore, and pacing work can make athletes grimace and smile. Coach Gerry Rodrigues of Tower 26, armed with binoculars and a stopwatch, attracts
Part 2 of a series on Tower 26 ocean swimming workouts is courtesy of WOWSA, California. Gerry Rodrigues of Tower 26 in Southern California is a coach who pays attention to the myriad details of the sport of open water swimming. During his early morning workouts on Santa Monica Beach, Coach Rodrigues asks the lifeguards to leave the lights on in their
Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica Beach, California. Gerry Rodrigues in his second Be Race Ready podcast (see here) talks about framing a cycle of swim workouts, foundational swims, and how to construct a swim session with host Jim Lubinski. Under Coach Rodrigues' guidance, a one-year period for competitive triathletes can be divided
Courtesy of CrossFit Games - Ocean Swim, Santa Monica Beach, California. For those ocean swimmers who enter the water when the surf is up, they all know to dive down below the crashing surf and wait for the whitewater to rush over and past them before coming back to the surface. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
In America, there is no swim team with as many ocean swimmers as SCAQ, Southern California Aquatic Masters Swim Club. The massive adult swimming team is spread far and wide throughout the Los Angeles basin. SCAQ includes courageous ocean swimmer Mary Ellen Koetsier-Farr came to the immediate aid of Steven Robles during a Great White Shark encounter in
Sunny skies, wide sandy beaches, Hollywood, Disneyland, skateboarders, and surfers. There are lots of different images that come to mind when Southern California is the topic. And one thing that Southern California - a land of 12+ million people - has in abundance from Santa Barbara to Orange County is an active swimming community. Pool swimmers, open
