-
Drowning Prevention Week – How You Can Help
Around 400 UK and Irish citizens lose their lives each year through drowning. Many of those deaths are preventable.
-
Swim training when you can’t access the water
Maintaining swimming fitness when you have limited hours requires creativity and planning but it can be done using a combination…
-
Yonda Ghost II Swimming Wetsuit – Extended Review
Due to space constraints in print, our product reviews are often shorter than some pieces of kit that we test…
-
Training in open water with FORM goggles
For our initial impressions of FORMS new open water functionality, please see: outdoorswimmer.com/product-reviews/form-goggles-open-water-mode-first-impressions And for a review of the pool…
-
Kozii men’s swimwear
We first came across Kozii at Swim Expo in Manchester and grabbed a few samples to review. In the world…
-
Blueye ‘Eel’ and ‘Squid’ Sunglasses
As far as we can remember, this is our first review of sunglasses, possibly for the obvious reason that most…
-
Swim Secure Wild Swim Bag
We’ve been a fan of tow floats and bags ever since Chillswim introduced them to the UK market a few…
-
Vantage Point, by Patricia Filteau
Set in the near future, this is a mystery thriller novel dealing with advanced technology and intellectual property rights, so…
-
MAD at BEST (or finding out how good your wetsuit really is)
Measuring drag in swimming is, well, a drag. A swimmer’s speed through the water is determined by two things: force…
-
The Bering Papers: An extreme winter swimmer’s story
Jack Bright is perennially drawn to extreme adventures in nature. As a winter swimmer and explorer the lure of swimming…