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A FREE Gift to the Open Water Community!
The Open Water Almanac
This section includes the following content:
When you see thousands of open water swims being held worldwide, it is easy to take for granted the great progress of this emerging sport. Yet open water swimming has come a long way over the last two centuries to enjoy its status and growing global enthusiasm that this sport generates today.
For the Community
Are you a veteran or a newcomer? Whether experienced or a newbie, you will appreciate the value of this compilation!
The Open Water Almanac is a collection of resources and documents developed, edited and updated by the Open Water Source as its gift to the global open water swimming community.
The Open Water Almanac is a collection of resources and documents developed, edited and updated by the Open Water Source as its gift to the global open water swimming community.
A Comprehensive and Authoritative Collection and Compilation
of Open Water Swimming Information!
The free portion of the Open Water Almanac consists of the following chapters. There are hundreds of additional chapters - that cover an increasingly broad spectrum of the sport - available to Open Water Source members.
- Chapter 1: The Open Water Swimming Dictionary
- Chapter 2. Expect The Unexpected
- Chapter 3. Open Water Swimming Books and Movies
- Chapter 4. Open Water Swimming Haikus and Poems
- Chapter 5. Higher Math For Open Water Swimmers
- Chapter 6. Open Water Swimming Circumnavigations
- Chapter 7. Open Water Swimming Relays
- Chapter 8. Is Open Water Swimming Nearing A Tipping Point?
- Chapter 9. Four Fundamental Feeding Steps
- Chapter 10. Outstanding Open Water Swimming Websites
- Chapter 11. The Socratic Method In The Open Water
- Chapter 12. Open Water Swimming Products
- Chapter 13. Fears Of The Open Water
- Chapter 14. Ocean’s Seven
- Chapter 15. Triple Crown Of Open Water Swimming
- Chapter 16. 50 Great Open Water Locations In The Americas
- Chapter 17. America’s Top 50 Open Water Swims
- Chapter 18. World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims
- Chapter 19. America’s Top 10 Most Competitive Open Water Races
- Chapter 20. Longest Solo Swims In The World
- Chapter 21. An Open Water Swimming Hero
- Chapter 22. Where Are Open Water Raced Conducted?
- Chapter 23. New Open Water Swims Around The World
- Chapter 24. Open Water Swims In The Future
- Chapter 25. Five Oceans
- Chapter 26. International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame
- Chapter 27. Open Water Swim Clubs, Teams And Organizations
- Chapter 28. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde In The Open Water
- Chapter 29. Open Water Swimming Ecosystem
- Chapter 30. Swim Near The Rocks
- Chapter 31. 50 Great Open Water Swimming Locations
- Chapter 32. Inner Thoughts Of A Marathon Swimming Coach
- Chapter 33. Triathletes And Open Water Swimmers As Endurance Cousins
- Chapter 34. Eco-swimming: Staying Green In Blue Waters
- Chapter 35. Cold-water Swimming
- Chapter 36. A Champion In The Pool And Open Water
- Chapter 37. Open Water Swimming Trivia
- Chapter 38. Open Water Swimming Best Practices
- Chapter 39: Pyramid Of Open Water Swimming Success
- Chapter 40: Insomnia In The Open Water
Know the Who's Who in Open Water Swimming!
About the Author:
Steven Munatones has served as the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Team coach at the 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 World Swimming Championships and 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 national team camps. He has written several cover stories for Swimming World Magazine, U.S. Masters Swimming SWIMMER Magazine and Competitor Magazine. He is an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee and board member. He created and manages the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame website. He is a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee where he drafted many of the rules, guidelines, protocols and regulations currently used in the sport.
Steven Munatones has served as the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Team coach at the 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 World Swimming Championships and 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 national team camps. He has written several cover stories for Swimming World Magazine, U.S. Masters Swimming SWIMMER Magazine and Competitor Magazine. He is an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee and board member. He created and manages the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame website. He is a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee where he drafted many of the rules, guidelines, protocols and regulations currently used in the sport.
Steven Munatones was the 1982 World Long Distance Swimming Champion (25K in Lake Windermere, England), did five unprecedented solo swims over 30K in Asia and several professional marathon swims in Canada, Mexico and Atlantic City. He was the NBC Olympics' Commentator for the 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Beijing. He created the Open Water Swimming Dictionary, World's Top 100 Open Water Swims, America's Top 50 Open Water Swims, the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, the World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, Open Water Wednesday, the Pyramid of Open Water Success, Ocean's Seven and the Open Water Almanac. He has prepared open water swimming materials used by NBC, USA Swimming, Beijing Olympic Committee, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio and National Geographic Magazine. He serves as the Technical Delegate for the Special Olympics and 2011 World Games and as an adviser to race directors in the USA, from California to New York, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Greece, Mexico and Japan. He is a member of the board of directors of Swim Free and was the race director for the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships, the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K and the Distance Swim Challenge. He wrote the script for Out of the Box, USA Swimming's 90-minute educational DVD on open water swimming and The Tactics and Techniques of Open Water Swimmers. He has kayaked, paddled, escorted and coached several swimmers in numerous channels and lakes around the world including the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Japan, South Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands. He created The Daily News of Open Water Swimming, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame website, The Water Is Open, 10Kswim, Virtual Swim, Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, Water Polo Hair and SwiMetrics. He created and hosted the first Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is a contributing writer to The Science of Swimming and is an adviser to the American Swimming Coaches Association's Journal of Swimming Research. He wrote a comprehensive tome on open water swimming that will be published in Q1 2012 by Human Kinetics. He was born and raised in Southern California and currently resides in Huntington Beach, California where he coaches, researches, writes and promotes open water swimming and water polo.
A FREE Gift to the Open Water Community
Chapters 1 - 40. The entire collection of hundreds of chapters is available to Open Water Source members.
Click on the link below to download the free portion of the Open Water Almanac.
Chapters 1 - 40. The entire collection of hundreds of chapters is available to Open Water Source members.
Click on the link below to download the free portion of the Open Water Almanac.
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