Swimming Pool Headlines
Coping with Injuries - Can Your Attitude Speed Recovery?
Frequently, athletes react to injuries with wide range of emotions including denial, anger, and even depression. Although your feelings are real, it is important to move beyond the negative and find more positive strategies to cope with this setback. In...
The Butterfly Motion May be The Most Important Motion for All Strokes
The dolphin or butterfly motion has become an important movement for swimmers to master. With all the rule changes and stroke changes over the last decade, the dolphin motion has become universal. Buttefly is the one movement we use in...
Are Swimming Lessons Better Than Letting Kids Figure Out How to Swim on Their Own?
Are swimming lessons better than letting kids figure out how to swim on their own - is letting children teach themselves how to swim better than giving them swimming lessons? David Morris, American Red Cross Certified Water Safety Instructor, has...
Horse on Loose Winds Up in Swimming Pool (San Francisco Chronicle)
A horse that got loose and broke through a fence wound up taking a January dip in a neighbor's ice-covered swimming pool. Fortunately for the horse named Dancer, the pool also had a cover over it when the accident happened Sunday. "He was caught up in...
Council turns attention to parks, swimming pool (Cameron Herald)
Cameron City Council approved Phase I of the park and pool that is planned for out toward the airport Monday. "We just need to get down on paper what we have to have so the engineers can get started and we can get moving on this project," City Manager Fred Stephens told the Council.
Is Bill a Bully?
Bill Sweetenham has been cleard of charges that he bullied British swimmers. Some claim that 13 British swimmers have retired because of his tactics. Others think he is on the right track. (The Age/Duncan Mackay - The Independent/Nick Harris)...
Chesaning plans May vote on swimming pool (MLive.com)
After nearly a year without a swimming pool, Chesaning Union Schools officials wonder if residents are ready to take the plunge. Board of Education members this week approved a bond issue to finance remodeling the Middle School pool and natatorium -- the space that houses the pool and spectators.
Open Turns While Swimming Freestyle
Many swimmers don't get to practice their butterfly or breaststroke turns often enough. This particular drill can be incorporated into any standard freestyle set. It provides the benefits of the distance training, and allows the swimmers to practice their breaststroke...
FINA 2005 Men's World Swimming Rankings
FINA has released the World Swimming Rankings for 2005. The swim rankings list the top 150 swimmers in each event. Some of the men swimmers' highlights are listed here....
Swimming Pools, France to Get a Revolutionary, Chlorine Free, Alternative Water Treatment for Pools & Spas (PR Web)
The launch of a new non-chlorine treatment in the UK was inevitable after it's successful use in more than 600,000 pools in the USA over the past 10 years. Now available in France and throughout Europe PristineBlue will be officially launched at the Spatex exhibition in February. [PRWEB Jan 20, 2006]
Olymic Medallist Completes 26-hour Marathon Swim
Long-distance swimmer David Meca has completed the 110km swim from the Spanish mainland to Ibiza, despite cold water and swarms of jellyfish. (Think Spain)...
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