Category: Winter Swimming
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Would You Swim in Lake Ohrid in Wintertime? | Orthodox Epiphany Day
Would you swim in Lake Ohrid when the air temperature is just above freezing? Well, lots of people do every year to celebrate the Orthodox day of Epiphany in North Macedonia. https://youtu.be/pnFAJX3zEPY
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Winter Swimming World Championships 2020 / Lake Bled, Slovenia
Winter Swimming World Championships 2020 at the Lake Bled in Slovenia. This World Championship is one of the most diverse in winter swimming history. Over 830 participants from 30 countries competed with each other in one of the most beautiful locations in the world – the Lake Bled.
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Chatting with Ram Barkai – Founder of the International Ice Swimming Association
We caught up with the record-breaking ice swimmer and Founder of the International Ice Swimming Association Ram Barkai at the IISA British Ice Swimming Championships. He discusses the history of the International Ice Swimming Association and his ambitions for the sport over the next few years.
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Swedish Lapland Stories: Ep. 23 — Rachel and the Good Swim
Rachel Davies has lived and worked in Abisko, Swedish Lapland for some years. And being a swimmer this means she had to adopt to cold water. So she did.
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Ice Swimming Challenge | 5 Minutes in 0.9°C Water
For this months Propulsion Swimming Challenge we were invited by Ice Swimming World Champion, John Myatt to experience his ice barrel at ice HQ. John uses this barrel to help aclimatise his body to the freezing water temperatures he faces when competing in Ice swimming! We spent a 5 minutes each in the water, which…
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Meet The Superhuman Wim Hof: The Iceman
Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing. Since then, he’s climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namib Desert with no…
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Keri-anne Payne joins the Sub-10 Club with her first cold water swim at London Royal Docks
What happened when Olympic silver medallist ands double world open water 10k champion Keri-anne Payne went cold water swimming with Outdoor Swimmer editor Jonathan Cowie…
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Why These Two Swimmers Chose To Swim In Dangerously Cold Temperatures
Every year, the Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival in Vermont brings swimmers from around the country to participate in a winter swim competition in frigid waters. Local swimmers Laurie and Amy Craigen went up this year with a group from the L Street Bath House in South Boston to join the tradition. They joined Jim Braude…