Tips By Christof Wandratsch On Ice Swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
Christof Wandratsch of Germany is the 2015 world 1 km ice swimming champion gives tips about how to safely do ice swimming.
Wandratsch talks with long-time professional marathon swimming colleague Shelley Taylor-Smith about the emerging niche in the open water swimming community, The Ice.
Watch two world champions, Wandratsch [shown wearing his signature Aqua Sphere goggles] and Petar Stoychev, go head-to-head at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Wöhrsee, Burghausen, Germany next January.
Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Christof Wandratsch of Germany is the 2015 world 1 km ice swimming champion gives tips about how to safely do ice swimming.
Wandratsch talks with long-time professional marathon swimming colleague Shelley Taylor-Smith about the emerging niche in the open water swimming community, The Ice.
Watch two world champions, Wandratsch [shown wearing his signature Aqua Sphere goggles] and Petar Stoychev, go head-to-head at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Wöhrsee, Burghausen, Germany next January.Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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