Teaching people to swim the English Channel
There are some physical challenges that everybody’s heard of but not everyone’s done. Climbing Everest, running a marathon or cycling the Tour de France route. What about swimming 32 kilometres? A swimming squad in Sydney is training people to swim the English Channel. John Jameson swam it in July this year after failing an attempt…
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Christmas Break
From 23rd December to 6th of January we are having Christmas and New Year break in our squads. You can still do your swims and follow this program here
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Swim at Balmoral beach was extraordinary for everyone who has something to do with open water swimming
Our day started with a plan to swim for one hour from Balmoral beach club to south, around Rocky point to beach pool and then continued to Chainman and back to club. At 8am first group of the swimmers was ready to dive in. We had unbelievable summer weather with temperature 28C with a glass…
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“Squeezer” Swimmers tool for catch phase
New Stock Arrived: Vladswim Squeezer the swimmer catch phase tool Building wrist, forearm and elbow strength Simple fun exercise any time anywhere Prevention of elbow joint injury Forearm strength is essential to the ability to catch and hold the water throughout the propulsive phase of the stroke The muscles of the forearm are predominantly “slow…
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Coolangatta gold surf race
In October we were glad to see some great results from our swimmers in another challenging event. Coolangatta Gold Surf competition is one of the longest surf races in Australia and for this reason is popular for endurance athletes. This year Chris and Pep were completed full race in great result. Chris took just on…
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Hawaii Ironman
This year Vladswim helped 4 swimmers to improve their swimming to be ready for one of the world largest Ironman competition in Hawaii. We would like to congratulate to all swimmers for their great performance. Results Vincent Lauwerier: 9H 19min 15sec , 30-34 (swim: 1:04:26/Bike: 4:57:31/Run: 3:09:30) James Lambert: 9H 29min 19sec, 35-39 (swim 1:00:13/Bike…
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