It is a well-known theory in sports and other fields, that it takes approximately 10.000 hours of practice to excel. But does this then also mean that anyone kan become excellent, if ‘only’ they put 10.000 hours of practice into it? American Dan McLaughlin is testing this, by practicing golf for 6 hours a day, 6 days a week for 6 years, in an attempt to go from being almost a novice in golf, to become a PGA golfer.
The Dan Plan from Dan McLaughlin on Vimeo.
Iceland’s Örn Arnarson wins gold here in the 200 freestyle at the European Junior Championships in Moscow 1999. His time 1:51.56 was almost a second off his then personal best time 1:50.63 from when he won silver at the European junior championships in Antwerpen the previous year, but still good enough to place him on top of the podium now. Yours truly was the shaky cameraman :-)
USA Swimming and AT&T follow Matt Grevers here outside the pool, 2 times Olympic gold medallist and 1 time olympic silver medallist. From he wakes up at 5:30 AM, until sometimes after his daily nap . I’m sorry to have to say this, but that guy eats a trashy breakfast. Otherwise, very inspiring :-)
Inspiring blog post by Natalie Coughlin here on teamusa.org …
Many people assume that the life of an athlete is a life of glamour.  Trust me, it’s not all traveling, photo shoots and parties! While I have done some amazingly glamorous things, the thousands of hours of heavily scheduled training has far outweighed them.  Without the countless hours of relentless work, I would have never experienced the traveling, photo shoots, television appearances, et cetera.  And while I have enjoyed those once-in-a-lifetime experiences, what I have loved the most is the daily grind of training.
Last Tuesday April 19, Veronika Popova crushed the Russian record in the women’s 100 freestyle with a winning time of 54.22, clearing Anastasia Aksenova’s 54.70 from the World Championships in Rome 2009. And then yesterday April 22, she again improved greatly upon the 200 freestyle Russian record, with a 1:56.94 clearing the 1:57.96 set by Yelena Sokolova at Roma 2009. Both these new records were at the Russian Long Course Championships in Moscow.
According to Wikipedia, the largest jellyfish ever discovered was a Lion’s Mane jellyfish, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870. It had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.29 meters (7 feet 6 inches) and (poisonous) tentacles 37 meters (120 feet) long. To put that into perspective, the largest blue whale ever recorded was a mere 110 feet long. Via pigjockey.com.
USA Swimming announced Tuesday a partnership with child protection firm Praesidium on an education program that will be mandatory to the 30,000 of 300,000 members who are not athletes, including coaches and officials. The program will also be offered free of charge to athletes and their parents. Via USA Today.
Not exactly powered by water, but using it as a conductive agent, completing an electrical circuit powered by probably a slowly dissolving piece of zinc. Anyways, all kinds of water-powering always sound like the perfect solution for swimming pools :-) See vat19.com.
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