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Beginner's Guide to Outdoor Swimming presents BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO OUTDOOR SWIMMING 1PART WHERE TO SWIM TECHNIQUE & SKILLS KIT GUIDE EXPERT ADVICE 4 Editor's letter Welcome to the world of outdoor swimming! If you haven't yet taken the plunge into swimming outdoors, part 1 of our two-part guide in association with ProWetsuit.co.uk, Europe’s swim wetsuit specialist, will introduce you to the joys of the open water as well as giving you practical advice on how to start your swimming journey, improve your stroke technique and train for your frst open water event. Plus, we've got tips and advice from all kinds of outdoor swimmers – whether you want to swim your frst mile or cross the English Channel. So take a deep breath and dive in – the water's lovely! Part 2 includes a training plan for your frst open water 10 mile, the joys of mass participation events and developing open water skills. Happy swimming, Jonathan Why Swim 4 Outdoors? Swimming outdoors Beter offers so much more than Breaststroke the pool. 24 Follow our nine steps to an efficient breaststroke Wild Swimming technique you can be Guide proud of. 10 Top tips for taking a swim on the wild side. Thrill to the 18 Chill Outdoor 28 The joys of cold water Swimming Kit swimming. 18 Everything you need to get started. Swimming Holidays Front Crawl 32 Take the plunge with a basics guided tour, training camp 20 Start your journey or event. towards becoming a more efficient and faster 20 swimmer. 28 Founder & Publisher Simon Griffiths Editor Jonathan Cowie Contributing editor Alice Gartland Art Editor Juliet Boucher Sub Editor Stuart Churchill Contributors Daniel Start, Dan Bullock, Terry Laughlin, John Coningham-Rolls, Jonathan Knot Cover image Daniel Start, Wild Things Publishing Printed in the UK by Pensord Press Ltd on behalf of ZG Publishing Ltd Images: Karen Weir, Daniel Start, Total Immersion, Vermont Cold Water Cold Vermont Immersion, Total Daniel Start, Weir, Images: Karen OUTDOORS? SwimmingWHY outdoors offers so muchSWIM more than the pool, says Simon Griffiths utdoor swimming is: an adventure, Perhaps the main draw – plain and simple Swimming in a pool can also be enjoyable a community, ftness, wellbeing, a – is that it's very enjoyable. If you haven't too, of course. Tere is something special about race, a meditation, a way of life… experienced outdoor swimming, that can being immersed in water. Perhaps it's because Te rewards of swimming outdoors sound surprising. If you're used to swimming it's the closest we can get to fying. In open water Oare many and varied and this guide is here to pool temperatures for example, entering open you also get the pleasure of being outside – support you to take that frst leap into the big water can give you quite a shock (literally) but immersed in nature as well as in water. blue beyond… with a bit of practice you can tolerate, Swimming outdoors also gives For years, authorities have been warning and even thrive in, a wide range of you more opportunity to play. us against swimming in open water. Tey natural water temperatures. You can leap of rocks, swing say it’s cold and dirty, that there are hidden Swimming in cool water is a from trees into the water and undercurrents and weeds that can entangle whole-body sensual dive through waves. And it you and drag you down, and if you do happen experience. Tere's doesn’t matter if you are to survive the initial swim, you’ll probably get an initial period of nine or 99 years old. ill aferwards. Later we’ll bust these myths and discomfort followed As well as show you how you can swim outside safely, but by a spell of feeling enjoyment and fun frstly we want to answer a more fundamental invigorated and there are outdoor question: why should you swim outside? energised. swimmers who Pica caption here xxx 4 Outdoor Swimmer outdoorswimmer.com OUTDOOR SWIMMING Images: Clare Calder, Siobhan Russell, Simon Willis Siobhan Russell, Simon Images: Clare Calder, OUTDOORS? take up the sport for the challenges it ofers wearing a wetsuit compulsory) but that’s not to rest at every turn. Not so in a lake or the and the satisfaction that comes from achieving the case for all races. ocean. Even the push of from the wall at each things they previously thought of as impossible. A mile equates to a little over 64 lengths of a turn gives you a second or two to rest your A frst step for many new open water standard 25m swimming pool but it’s a totally arms whereas outside they are in constant swimmers is to sign up diferent challenge in motion. Ten, because you don’t have a black for a mass participation open water. Firstly, the line to follow, it’s much harder to swim straight. swimming event. We like SWIMMING IN water temperature will Tese means an open water mile is ‘longer’ than the word ‘event’ rather most likely be cooler a pool mile and for most people will be slower. than ‘race’ as ofen, for the COOL WATER IS than the pool and while Other diferences are limited visibility, majority, these swims are A WHOLE- a wetsuit does ofer rough conditions, other swimmers in close not about racing but about some protection you proximity, depth, distance from the shore overcoming a personal BODY SENSUAL still feel the chill on and the possibility of encountering wildlife challenge and completing EXPERIENCE your face, hands and or swimming through plants. It’s no wonder the distance. A typical feet. A wetsuit can also people feel a huge sense of achievement afer beginner’s distance is a mile and there is a wide feel restricting so combined with the shock of completing an open water swim for the frst range of events in diferent locations and types the cold this can cause some people to panic. time. On the plus side, because you’re not of water around the world ofering this. In the But don’t worry, you can overcome this with a changing direction every 25m, swimming a UK, many swimmers will use a wetsuit for their bit of practice. mile outside can, in some ways, feel easier than frst open water race (some organisers make Secondly, in a pool you have the opportunity in the pool. ➜ outdoorswimmer.com Outdoor Swimmer 5 DELASE GAZO Age: 26 Swim Highlights: Participating in a 4x50m relay at the London Aquatics Relax and focus on Centre during the European feeling natural Aquatics Championships as part of Swim London (an adult learn to swim course) and the Great Newham London Swim. How did you first get into outdoor swimming? I decided to participate in the Swim London programme and open water MICHELLE CASTRO swimming was part of the course. Everything Age: 32 was afraid of open water feel their is a lot to learn I had learned about swimming before Swim Highlights swimming, but not any more… and I want to improve my then came from primary school swimming 2016 was the start of my Favourite Swim Spot technique. lessons. Despite having poor technique, outdoor swimming journey. Tynemouth has a What would you say to I could will myself to 25m because I was I took part in an organised beautiful sandy beach with a someone considering geting armed with the confidence that being able to trip with the “This Girl spectacular historic backdrop into outdoor touch the botom with my feet brings. Can” group from Active of Tynemouth Priory and swimming? What does outdoor swimming mean to Northumberland to swim Castle. Feel the fear – and get in the you? with seals at the Farne What are your top three tips water anyway! Freedom Islands. Outdoor swimming for beginners to outdoor What made you take up outdoor has allowed me to make swimming? Practise geting swimming? new friends and has given in and out of your wetsuit – I've always had this visual in my head of me a newfound confidence it's not as easy as it looks! diving off of a boat into the sea. I couldn't to swim in pools, lakes and Purchase a good pair of really swim, so I couldn't safely enact it. the sea. My aim is to take anti-fog swimming goggles. Participating in Swim London was the first on a swimrun race and work Swim with other like-minded step to realising it. towards an Ironman. people. It makes it more What are your top three tips for What does outdoor fun and there's safety in beginners to outdoor swimming? swimming mean to you? numbers, in case you get into Relax and focus on the swim feeling Outdoor swimming means any difficulties. natural: 'Stroke: 1, 2, 3, breathe... 1, 2, 3, geting out of my comfort What kind of training do breathe.' The transition from the pool to zone. It's about enjoying your you do? open water was easier than I anticipated. surroundings and embracing I am currently having The wetsuit aids your buoyancy. It's mainly nature. Only last year I swimming lessons as I still a mental hurdle to overcome. The rest I want to improve comes with practice. my technique Distance➜ maters restricted and you sense the water over your Channel between Ireland and Scotland. All Some swimmers like to push the barriers entire body. these swims ofer diferent challenges in terms through ever longer distances. If you’ve The pinnacle of marathon swimming of currents, water temperatures and possibly done a mile, why not try two miles or five challenges is often considered to be the wildlife encounters.
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