Can ocean swimmers and surf craft users share the waves?
On our busiest beaches there is a fight for waves between ocean swimmers and surf craft, can they co-exist safely?
Red And Yellow Flags
Bottom’s up: How to choose where to swim at the beach
Learn why different sections of water on the same beach can look so different and how to use this to your advantage.
How sandbanks are like swimming between the flags
How can you stay safe at the beach, if you know to swim between the flags, but you choose not to?
Where to swim when not between the flags
Learn how to choose a place to swim when you don’t want to swim between the flags on a patrolled beach or when you’re on a beach without flags.
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Cleaning up your carbohydrates
Training requires adequate dietary carbohydrates especially post training. In this lesson you will learn how to consume a variety of carbs as part of a ‘carb clean up’.
What to do when you’ve got too much time to yourself
Tips for keeping yourself entertained when the peace and quiet becomes too much.
Total Immersion and the Incredible Hulk
Tim Ferris (‘The 4 Hour Work Week’) shares the story of how he transformed from demoralised drowner to 1km ocean swimmer in two weeks with Total Immersion.
The great wetsuit debate
Do you only swim ‘newd’, or are you impartial to a bit of rubber? This question is at the heart of the annual wetsuit debate between ocean swimming traditionalists and the modern day ocean swimmer.
