Year: 2020
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ISL 2020 Review | This Is The Future Of Swimming | Propulsion Swimming
After 6 amazing weeks of racing in Budapest, the International Swimming League has come to a close. On this week’s Propulsion Swimming Podcast we review the final and ISL as a whole. We look back on our highlights of the final, what went wrong with London Roar, which swimmers impressed the most, and of course,…
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Winter Swimming – Key Things You Need to Know About the Joys of Cold Water Swims
I decided to do a short guide to winter swimming while going for my morning swim in Ullswater. With over a decade of winter swimming behind me, I’m a great believer in just going out and enjoying the experience in whatever way makes you happy. Short dip in wetsuit or longer swim in skins. As…
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How We Got To The Deepest Part Of The Ocean – Guinness World Records
If you plonked Mount Everest on the floor of this ocean, there would still be two kilometres between the summit and the ocean surface. Congratulations to Victor Vescovo and his team for achieving multiple Guinness World Records titles.
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Diving Insights – with Jamaica’s Yona Knight-Wisdom | Technical Talks
The one and only Jamaican diver Yona Knight-Wisdom is our speaker today. Watch our 1m springboard specialist in this Technical Talk, as he provides insights on one of his most challenging dives, the “Forward 2 ½ Somersaults 1 Twist Pike”. Yona: “The feeling in the air, I can only describe as being in a washing…
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Adam Peaty & Kira Toussaint on their new Short Course World Records
During the ISL semi-finals in Budapest, Kira Touissant broke the women’s 50m Backstroke SC World Record with Adam Peaty breaking the men’s 100m Breaststroke World Record, a record that has stood for 11 years.
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Lessons From Legends: Bob Bowman on Butterfly Conditioning; Age Group Progression
Check out this clip from Coach Bob Bowman on a favorite Butterfly conditioning set that he’s used over the years. Coach Bowman shares a few splits Michael Phelps would post and cautions age group coaches with using appropriate variations of the set. As Coaches, we’re always looking for new ideas and we love hearing about…
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Insane drone video reveals huge hammerhead shark circling clueless swimmer in Florida
Everyone knows sharks fill the water off Florida’s coast and many choose to get in the water anyway. What you might not expect to find though is a 10-foot long hammerhead shark circling an unsuspecting swimmer. A drone video taken by Jason McIntosh on Nov. 15 in Miami Beach, Florida shows just that. Read Click…