Swim one Vladswim’s fourth annual ‘cold camp’ trip to Brighton, Victoria kicked off on the afternoon of Thursday 23 April with a brief introduction followed shortly by a 90 minute swim. The cold water swimming camp is aimed at distance swimmers preparing for extreme marathons, such as the English Channel crossing, Catalina Island and the
Sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday Time: 6:00 – 7:30am Vladswim Coach: Jai Di Tommaso This program is open to swimmers at all levels of ability. The focus is on preparing you for open water races and other distance swimming events. The three pool sessions tie in with the Saturday ocean swims. Coach Jai will
On 27th of October Wyatt Song swam 1mile (1.65km) in water with a temperature below 5 degrees centigrade. Wyatt is the first Australian swimmer to attempt the distance at this water temperature and he’s now waiting for official confirmation of the swim from the International one mile swim association. So, another unbelievable achievement. Congratulations, Wyatt!
We would like to welcome you to the first edition of Swim Mate Magazine. The idea behind Swim Mate is to provide a regular magazine with interesting stories and information on open water swimming, ocean swimming and Triathlon swimming both in Australia and around the world. We also would like Swim Mate to offer something
The lovely, sunny and relaxing Greek Island Kalymnos again gave to us an unbelievable holiday atmosphere connected with swimming and family hospitality. The Kalymnos swim trip 2014 was great and we loved it. This is the 2nd year that Vladswim organised this European trip. This time 5 fantastic swimmers, 2 coaches and local guru Sevasti
The biggest open water swim event for Vladswim swimmers is this great 20km swim in West Australia. Since 2010 Vlad has been going to this great event with swimmers. Louise Stevenson was first swimmer that introduced Vlad to the Rottnest swim. 2010 and also 2011 Louise did great swim finished 1st female category. This year
On Wednesday and Friday morning our ABC squad sessions experienced around 18 swimmers each in lanes #2, #3 and #4 over the past couple of weeks. We’ve been so busy that the Vladswim record (the total number of swimmers in one squad), was broken. This happened one morning when 68 swimmers turned up for a
For the 2km event at north Bondi on Sunday the following competed. Place listed is age group. Iain W Melhuish 3rd age and 5th o’all, Zoe Whitfield 1st age and 1st female, Justin Hanby 5th,Talbot Henry4th, Doug Bartlett 2nd, Sal Panto 6th, Heath Davies 7th, Ben McGarry 8th, Cameron Spittle9th, Fi Fi Tschaut3rd, Matt Langsford