Showing titles in Water Sports

Oly Bennet dives into water polo, the Olympic sport where athletes tread water while wrestling, sprinting, and launching balls at blistering speeds. From Victorian origins to underwater tactics and superhuman fitness demands, discover why this aquatic battlefield produces the toughest athletes on Earth. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Join Oly Bennet as he dives into ice swimming, where brave athletes race through bone-chilling waters in swimsuits. From frozen lake competitions to the grueling Ice Mile challenge, discover why thousands embrace this beautifully unhinged sport that's equal parts madness and triumph. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Globe-trotting sports fanatic Oly Bennet dives into synchronized swimming, exploring Olympic drama, underwater artistry, and absurd analogies. Expect bonkers choreography and rants about smiling while drowning. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Dive into extreme international ice swimming, where athletes brave sub-zero waters in swimsuits. Oly Bennet explores death-defying challenges like the Ice Mile, cold-water immersion science, and globe-trotting competitions pushing human endurance to frozen limits. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Boy in the Water written and read by Tom Gregory. Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers...

The solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s, it has inspired poems, songs, and novels, in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and gales. In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography.

'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNON Join David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats. These small boats outnumber...

The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick...

"Narrator Adam Lazarre-White conveys Cooper's youth and aspirations in a rich, steady voice that suggests emotional authenticity and humor." -- AudioFile Magazine Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true...

Written by one of the most revered surfers of his generation, Gerry Lopez's Surf Is Where You Find It is a collection of stories about a lifetime of surfing. But more than that, it is a collection of stories about the lessons learned from surfing. It presents 38 stories about those who have...

This extensive biography provides an incredibly detailed and intimate look at the life and swimming career of Katie Ledecky - one of the most accomplished and dominant athletes in the history of the sport. It takes readers on a journey from Ledecky's early beginnings as a young girl with a passion for swimming in Washington D.C., to her rise as a teenage phenomenon who burst onto the international scene. The piece meticulously chronicles all of Ledecky's major accomplishments, including her record-breaking performances at the Olympics, World Championships, and other elite competitions where ...

Whether in lake, lido, river or sea, we know the benefits of swimming outdoors and in nature—environmentally friendly and accessible, it can influence our happiness, our energy and our inner tranquillity. Winter Swimming takes this one step further, as contact with cold water all year round can also have a significant positive impact on our physical health, confidence and well-being. Danish scientist Susanna Søberg leads us step by step into the icy water and explains the 'cold-shock response', the massive endorphin rush as our body reacts and adapts.

Vòng đấu tiếp theo của giải Vô địch Quốc gia hứa hẹn nhiều cuộc so tài hấp dẫn khi các đội bóng đang cạnh tranh quyết liệt cho vị trí dẫn đầu. Phong độ của những đội top đầu vẫn khá ổn định, trong khi một vài đội bóng đang tìm cách cải thiện thành tích để tránh rơi xuống nhóm cuối bảng. Chiến thuật và sự chuẩn bị thể lực sẽ là yếu tố then chốt quyết định kết quả các trận đấu. Cập nhật thông tin và phân tích chi tiết về các đội bóng sẽ ...

Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think. Richard King's enormously engaging and curious book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone.

True Story of Para Swimmer Madhavi Latha.

Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection. The Sailor's Bookshelf offers synopses of fifty books that illustrate the history, importance, lore, and lifestyle of the oceans and of those who "go down to the sea in ships." Divided into four main categories, Admiral Stavridis's choices will appeal to "old salts" and to those who have never known the sights of the ever-changing seascape, nor breathed the tonic of an ocean breeze. 

Take Your Mark, Lead! is a self-help, go-to guide for people who urgently want to take charge of their lives. Leader, champion, and survivor Kelly Parker Palace delivers 11 entertaining, informative chapters chocked full of inspiring stories and actionable, practical strategies. This transformative book will empower you to triumph in all aspects of your life and to champion yourself, your business, and others.

Stuck in a corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary - the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure.

In June 2009, Caspar and Nichola created a plan to sail around the world with their young children. Most people thought they were crazy. But over the past seven years they've embraced every moment of this momentous chapter of their lives. Five years of planning - the vision, the values, the practicalities, the realities, the excitement, the highs, the lows and the seemingly adventure stopping obstacles - led to two wonderful years of living their dream - the magical and the scary, enjoying life and learning as a family.

Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world. After a distinguished career, where he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Joshua Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Turning this catastrophe to his advantage, he built a sailing canoe from the wreckage and sailed back to New York. Moreover, he wrote Voyage of the Liberdad, a chronicle of his trip, and earned some literary success.