Open water swimming...
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Open water swimming...
Postby Wayfarer » Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:00 am
Anyway, I was wondering about open water swimming the other day, since my new Blueseventy wetsuit came in. I'm scared to hell that I'm gonna drown. I don't wanna die. My girlfriend will inherit my motorbike, and my sister will steal my skateboard. That really sucks. So I was thinking of getting some kids floaties, folding them up and putting them in either my swim cap or wetsuit, so if something went wrong and I started drowning, I have a backup plan - just blow them up, and I'll (hopefully) be all right....
Is this the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard?
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Open water swimming...
Postby Redbull » Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:10 am
Last weekend there were 2 x 5 metre whitepointers 50 metres off the beach at Rotto.
Drowning is the least of your problems.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Wayfarer » Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:33 am
C'mon champ! How many people die because of speeding bastards and drunk drivers each month? I'm assuming less people die every decade from shark attacks. Plus, I don't think this wetsuit tastes like tuna..
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Ken Ho » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:09 am
Mine is to swim jump in off a point, like Snapper, and swim around the coast, to be only 50 -100m out at any time. Works for Byron too.
I know there is a long social swim at Byron every Sunday, about 2km, and I'm sure there a plenty of others around the traps. I have not done it, but they probably have a safety vessel of some sort.
When I run or ride, I tend to maroon myself with the first part of the ride, forcing myself to keepmgoing to get home. Hard to think about doing that on a swim.
D you have a mate with a paddle ski or kayak etc who could be your safety boat ?
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Apple » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:21 am
You will be fine, you can't worry about every little thing.
Lean to swim and be able to do a km freely. join a squad. Try your wet suit in the pool first to get used to it. Lubricate it around the neck. Wet suits have buoyancy anyway. Nothing more fun than swimming in the open water. Try and do the ocean swims in summer.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Redbull » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:26 am
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Redbull » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:31 am
Nobody messes with the Enterprise and comes out ahead
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Wayfarer » Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:07 pm
Oh yeah, I do that too.I don't have any friends that swim, and I don't really wanna abuse my girlfriend to bodyboard out, when she swims worse than I doKen Ho wrote:When I run or ride, I tend to maroon myself with the first part of the ride, forcing myself to keepmgoing to get home. Hard to think about doing that on a swim.
D you have a mate with a paddle ski or kayak etc who could be your safety boat ?
err... excuse me, but really? a redshirt? Didn't wearing a red shirt in the original series mean.. well.. you know.. 'guess who'se not coming back from this away mission'?Redbull wrote:Get one of these.
edit; holy crap; those are actual wetsuits :O MUST HAVE
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Redbull » Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:12 am
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby clackers » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:03 am
Yellow could be looking good again for you ...
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Wayfarer » Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:58 am
Clacker.. you really are a clacker Maybe I'll just leave the tuna flavoured sunscreen at homeclackers wrote:Didn't the Taylors years ago show by tossing dummies into a bunch of Great Whites that it was the suit colours that were the real problem? (Black equalling seal to an ancient creature with a lot of instinct and little intelligence)
Yellow could be looking good again for you ...
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby sonj » Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:57 pm
But in my experience with ocean swimming the worst part is accidentally gulping down salty water and not gagging too much. Your wetsuit will provide some bouyancy and there's no shame in stopping, taking a deep breath (relax) and looking around to make sure you're not heading off to NZ.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Ken Ho » Sun Nov 20, 2011 9:33 pm
I'll let you know if I get eaten or drown.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby sonj » Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:01 pm
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Ken Ho » Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:09 pm
Sooked out a bit with the swim, stayed in close. Don't have that much swim in me yet.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby kellyu » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:08 am
I've got a whole 150m freestyle in a 25m pool amount of swim in me. You've got more than mostKen Ho wrote:Not dead yet.
Sooked out a bit with the swim, stayed in close. Don't have that much swim in me yet.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Ken Ho » Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:04 am
I am pretty crap. Never did get taught much as a kid and I'm not keen on pools. My son drowned in one, and I have a deep seated aversion. I'm OK if it's hot and sunny, but as soon as it's overcast or anything, the bunyips come out.kellyu wrote:I've got a whole 150m freestyle in a 25m pool amount of swim in me. You've got more than mostKen Ho wrote:Not dead yet.
Sooked out a bit with the swim, stayed in close. Don't have that much swim in me yet.
I've started using an interval timer though, which works well for my running, so we'll see how that goes.
The ocean is getting really nice here now, after being a bit cool in spring, so more ocean swims are on the schedule.
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby bracko » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:44 pm
do you know anything about beaches? if no, perhaps best to do a "surf safety" course to learn how to read a beach, understand rips etc...
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby bracko » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:47 pm
bracko wrote:there are heaps of small swims in sydney... if you're THAT worried go to a beach and stroll up to the lifeguards, tell them exactly where you're swimming (ideally just swim 50m out from the flags, 50m across and 50m in to start) and if they could possibly keep an eye on you.
do you know anything about beaches? if no, perhaps best to do a "surf safety" course to learn how to read a beach, understand rips etc...
there is quite a lot of evidence that sharks are actually very intelligent on the scale of apex hunters.clackers wrote:Didn't the Taylors years ago show by tossing dummies into a bunch of Great Whites that it was the suit colours that were the real problem? (Black equalling seal to an ancient creature with a lot of instinct and little intelligence)
Yellow could be looking good again for you ...
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby Wayfarer » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:28 pm
Don't be silly. Everybody knows that sharks are crazy. They swim around hell-bent on eating and killing everything in their path. All the time!bracko wrote:there is quite a lot of evidence that sharks are actually very intelligent on the scale of apex hunters.
Look how crazy he is! Haha...
So since November, I grabbed a wetsuit and somehow i can float in it. First race in it, got 500m in 8 minutes. Next race was a no wetsuit swim, 17 minutes.. and I sunk. Alot. Can't float without it My body fat in calipers was 2mm. The Exercise physiologist said i had the lowest score in lower body fat he's ever seen, and there's no wonder i couldn't float. In it, I can swim indefinitely, but without it, barely 100m... Anyone have a similar experience?
oh, speaking of rips, I got caught in one at Bondi. I didn't even know, I was just paddling and paddling and not getting anywhere (I thought it was because the waves kept going over me), until the life guard came out on his surfboard and told me I'm not getting outta there without him
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Re: Open water swimming...
Postby mark field » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:30 am
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