Yoga for Swimming?
Open water swimming skills can definitely be enhanced with regular yoga practice, and at any age-- as described below, yoga can develop both the mental and the physical aspects of…
Does Just Thinking About Open Water Swimming Overwhelm You?
Feeling overwhelmed happens at times to all of us, and in a wide variety of circumstances. Remember the first time you got into a car with the intent of driving…
Why Talk about Swimming in Open Water?
You would think that, with water covering 70% of the earth's surface, with most human populations living nearby a body of water, and human evolution suggesting that most life forms today evolved…
Three Epiphanies I Needed Before I Could Learn How to Swim
On a logical level, going to a public pool to get adult swimming lessons made perfect sense for me--I was 50, after all---I felt a need to better engage with…
Top 16 Reasons Why Pool Swimmers Often Find Themselves Out Of Their Element In Open Water
A public pool is an ideal setting to learn how to swim, because so many variables are well controlled and support and supervision are generally close at hand. And yet,…
My “watershed” moment
Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, December 1980. As a 25-year-old on an extended trip Down Under, I loved visiting the beautiful beaches there as much as the next guy. Shortly after…