Olympian Marc Jenkins shows how to prepare for the open water swimming leg of a Triathlon. Marc and a training partner demonstrate deep-water starts and tips for how best to be positioned in the water whilst waiting for the gun.

Marc also covers sighting, practising turns, tumble turns and the rolling technique when pulling round the buoy, which helps maintain momentum. Marc also shows how best to exit the water.

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Carina Bruwer from the multiple award-winning instrumental pop group Sterling EQ, has made a successful return to open water swimming after a 6 year break. She successfully rounded Cape Point on 23 April 2013, finishing the 8km extreme swim equipped only with a standard swimming costume, cap and goggles, according to open water swimming rules.

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A distressing video via Formosa English News reports how big waves and a strong current put many of the 4000 swimmers participating in the 2013 International Olympic Hengchun Open Water Swim at risk.

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swimswam video interview (9m 34s) via Mike Lewis with 2012 USA Swimming national champion Ashley Twichell who talks about the past year and the upcoming 2013 USA Open Water Swimming Championships.

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13 brave swimmers headed out in 9.9 degrees at Eastleigh Lakeside on 16 April 2013. View video below (3m 05s). If you are interested in going along for a dip visit www.trytri.co.uk.

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Swimmer magazine testers take us through various open water goggles for the March/April 2013 issue.

View video (6m 23s) via US Masters Swimming

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View FINA video (9m 49s) of a presentation on 10km open water swimmer Eva Risztov given by Ferenc Kovacshegyi (HUN) at 1st FINA Gold Medal Swimming Coaches Clinic in Moscow.

The Oct 2012 event was attended by more than 400 swimming coaches from 100 nations. It offered a golden opportunity over two days to exchange ideas, experience and knowledge with top-level coaches from swimming powerhouses such as the USA, Australia and China and was praised by many participants.

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The Hampshire Open Water Swimming Centre is located in Fordingbridge within the New Forest Water Park, directly off the A338 to Salisbury. This is a new site for open water swimming and with a 600m circuit it is suited to those more intermediate to advanced open water swimmers.

Supervised swimming sessions for 2013 recommence at the Centre on 15 April.

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View a promotional video (6m 56s) from the swim / holiday company Swimtrek shared on Youtube.

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Graham Williams of www.swim-tech.co.uk shares some open water swimming advice from Paul Newsome of www.swimsmooth.com in this video (10m 33s).

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