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Cassandra Sponsorship Appeal
dear friends of finswimming ...2011 doesn't seem to be the year of my daughter and british finswimming champion cassandra ... though she trains like mad and swims one PB after the other problems out of the pool prevent her from competing in her chosen sport ... it has proven impossible, to find her a sponsor and we therefore had to cancel this years participation at the JEC in hungary ... even nationally (here in spain) only one competition will be paidfor by the association, the rest will have to be funded by me ... since i've been out of a job for more than a year now, i find that more and more difficult ... we will therefore be able to send her to one competition only and that only with your help ...
London Finswimming Team Wins Cup at the National Championship
The "FinWorld Finswimming Club" came home with the cup today they won at the "BFA Short Course and Student National Championships". For the first time since 2002 the cup was wrestled away from the titleholder, the "Invicta Finswimming Club" based in Edenbridge.
Finswimming is a form of swimming when athletes use a monofin or flippers (called bifins or stereofins) to move their body through a distance and snorkel or aqualung for breathing.
Distances for competition are similar to ordinary swimming:
Surface (when monofin and snorkel is used): 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m
Surface bifins: 50m, 100m, 200m
Immersion (monofin + air tank): 100m, 400m, 800m
Apnea (monofin, no breathing): 50m
Relay: 4x50m, 4x100m, 4x200m
In addition, 25m surface and apnea distances are available in 25m pools.
In the UK finswimming is governed by British Finswimming Association (BFA)
How can I get into finswimming? The easiest way is to contact a nearest club. As a club member you will attend training sessions and participate in competitions.