Hi! Just wanted to pass on the name of a movie I watched last night- "Swimming Upstream". It was a good flick based on a true story about a champion backstroker from Australia. It portrayed his life from childhood and his endless pursuit to please his father. It was motivating to see the guy train so hard.
Does anyone know of any other good movies about swimming or swimmers?
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Youtube video induction to the swimming hall of fame. video.google.ca/videoplay
In the video she is wearing Swim Pro goggles in most of the swimming portions, when they mention the English Channel she is wearing Shake & Nods pictured below. I believe she wore a Janzen swim suit.during her swims.
The cut off time would be correct, Gus Ryder's club The Lakeshore swim club was almost a a learn to swim school. They took almost none swimmers into the club. Of course they had lots of really good swimmers also. Allen Eagleson the NHL guy was a member. The guy who got in trouble, he was not a bad swimmer and was a good friend of mine. He had a couple of sisters that I really liked.
I have the movie on DVD and will watch it again and I will tell you about the accurecy.
Diving into the Credit River and the Humber River could be very cold. I have shivered many a time before swimming in those two rivers, but worse then the cold they were very badly polluted.
There were very few swimmers at that time who could swim 100 yards in 1 minute.
There were amazing crowds at the CNE to see the finish. You should have seen the exit from the CNE grounds that left to see her finish down the way. She did not finish at the CNE waterfront. I will check the numbers but I know there were over 200,000 at the exhibition waterfront waiting for her to arrive.
I am going to download the goggles of the time and add them in acouple of minutes. These goggles happen to be the ones worn By Cliff Lumsdon a great Marathon swimmer of our time.
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Youtube video induction to the swimming hall of fame. video.google.ca/videoplay
In the video she is wearing Swim Pro goggles in most of the swimming portions, when they mention the English Channel she is wearing Shake & Nods pictured below. I believe she wore a Janzen swim suit.during her swims.
The cut off time would be correct, Gus Ryder's club The Lakeshore swim club was almost a a learn to swim school. They took almost none swimmers into the club. Of course they had lots of really good swimmers also. Allen Eagleson the NHL guy was a member. The guy who got in trouble, he was not a bad swimmer and was a good friend of mine. He had a couple of sisters that I really liked.
I have the movie on DVD and will watch it again and I will tell you about the accurecy.
Diving into the Credit River and the Humber River could be very cold. I have shivered many a time before swimming in those two rivers, but worse then the cold they were very badly polluted.
There were very few swimmers at that time who could swim 100 yards in 1 minute.
There were amazing crowds at the CNE to see the finish. You should have seen the exit from the CNE grounds that left to see her finish down the way. She did not finish at the CNE waterfront. I will check the numbers but I know there were over 200,000 at the exhibition waterfront waiting for her to arrive.
I am going to download the goggles of the time and add them in acouple of minutes. These goggles happen to be the ones worn By Cliff Lumsdon a great Marathon swimmer of our time.
