Meeting point: Shelly beach Coaches: Vlad Martin Jai Weather Condition: Water Condition: What to bring: the usual, nutrition, drink and smile Waiver form: No waiver no swim! 1. Open Water Swimmers – Short swim ($20) – Swim goal: 5 km swim – 1.5-2 hours’ swim – finish at 9:00 am – direction depend…
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Meeting point: Chinaman Coaches: Vlad Martin Weather Condition: Water Condition: What to bring: the usual, nutrition, drink and smile Waiver form: No waiver no swim! RACE INFORMATION Vladswim Challenge Swim is a 2.5km and 5km open water event, and 10km marathon swimming event. Swimmers can compete only as solos. This is a chance…
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Vladimir Mravec is busy in Sydney, Australia preparing for all the swims to be attempted by members of VladSwim. “My swimmers are chasing all channel swims; there is never-ending stories. More and more swimmers want to do long swim challenges. 2017 was a busy year.” In the English Channel, successful members included Brendan Maher, Ned…
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CHRISTMAS BREAK From 25th December to 8th of January 2018, we will take a break for Christmas and New Year. Let’s have a look on Christmas timetable for all swimming pools: ABC POOL The last special Christmas pool swim session will be on Fri 22nd of December and the first session back will be on…
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The Vladswim Cold Water Swim camp in Melbourne once again provided some important lessons for all extreme Channel swimmers. The camp hosted 23 swimmers from all parts of Australia including Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Canberra and Perth. These swimmers braved 7 separate cold water swims in 15.5 degree water temperature. The tough swim conditions were exactly…
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At the end of the ABC pool season we held the longest session in the pool: 100 x 100m swim sets. This year 30 swimmers attended this unusual Vladswim event. The swim was enjoyable in a fantastic sunny weather and friendly atmosphere. For some of the swimmers, this was their first time covering such a…
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