15 February, 2023
Starlight Super Swim Superheroes Share Their Top-Tips With Oceanswims.com
Oceanswims.com is used to bring together ocean swim events from across Australia. They aid in providing insight to people who are starting out in the sport or even if you want to improve your current skills and develop a stronger endurance in the open water. They have informative how-to articles that explains how long it could take to train for a specific ocean swim, how much time you may have to put into training each week, what gear you require and what your training may look like.
This February, Oceanswims have teamed up with a few of Team Speedo's Starlight Super Swim Ambassadors to share with you some of their top tips! Some include open water and surf swimming strategies, body surfing tips and even how to manage your strokes in some intense surf conditions, to name a few! If you want to take some notes from these professional athletes, then keep reading
Triple Olympic Gold Medallist Ariarne Titmus is an expert at putting a race strategy together, and she shares how she goes about it in the pool!
“When you are putting a race strategy together you want to really play to your strengths,” said Ariarne.
“There is no point in trying to capitalise on something that you are not the best at. For me, I know that I have great back-end speed over 200m and 400m freestyle races, so I still try to take it out quite hard but conserve a little bit of energy so I can use my speed in the second half of the race.
“I think it is still really important for me to think about the little things, such as my turns and underwaters because every second adds up.
“While I’m not an experienced ocean swimmer, I think when you are heading into an ocean swim event, if I look at it as a long-distance race similar to when I race an 800m or 1500m freestyle event, I think you have to break the race down into parts.
“You want to have a strategy for each quarter of the race or depending on what distance you are doing, each kilometre of the race.
“For example, if you are doing a 10km ocean swim, you want to put a strategy in place for how you want to swim each 2.5km. This will help the race go quicker and keep you motivated throughout such a long period of time.
“You also want to just be confident in your race plan, don’t make a race plan you think you can’t do, make sure you make a plan that you can execute to the best of your ability.”
Find out more about Ariarne's top tips here! You can also follow along with one of Ariarne's Swim Workouts to test your skills before an ocean swim, check it out: Speedo Swim Workouts.
Current World Ironman Champion and Nutri-Grain Iron Series Ironman, Cory Taylor, loves body surfing and is an absolute gun at it. Here he shares his top two tips for successfully body surfing a wave into shore. Find out Cory's top tips here!
You can find more top tips from more Speedo Starlight Super Swim ambassadors including Lani Pallister, Tommy Gallagher, Joe Collins and Sam Short at Oceanswims.com.
Team Speedo has already raised over $22,000 for the Starlight Foundation. If you haven't already sign up today to be a Starlight Superhero! You can sign up and donate to Team Speedo here; for every cent you donate and every metre you swim, that helps put a smile on a sick kids face.