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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2021
- I am very excited to bring you this weeks video with ADAM WALKER
Today we talk to the positive and inspiring Adam Walker of the #Oceanwalker #technique. Adam was the first Brit to complete the #Oceans 7 (the toughest 7 channel swims in the world).
Swimming open water and pool, Ocean Walker specialise in teaching the unique injury prevention front crawl swim stroke, the Ocean Walker Stroke Technique. Oceanwalker run swim camps worldwide, one to one lessons and even online training courses! An efficient and effortless front crawl stroke technique.
We talk about the fun aspect of the swim camps (I have been on the Malta one, it was brilliant) Mental mindset and achieving your goals. This video gives you a better idea of what to expect when attending a swim camp.
Adam Walker is the first British person to swim the Oceans 7, the toughest 7 channel swims in the World!
He is the 5th person in the World to complete this incredible feat. It is the ultimate endurance challenge, the Oceans equivalent to the "Seven Summits" and he is the 2nd person in history to complete all seven on first attempt!
Adam Walker was born and grew up in Nottingham, UK with his parents Peter and Margaret Walker and older brother Mark. Adam and Mark enjoyed their sports and they followed their father's footsteps playing Rugby and Cricket. In his teens, Adam had to retire from these sports due to knee and back injuries. This encouraged him to swim and he competed at County level 50m Backstroke.
Adam left University, he again followed the family trade into sales. Adam worked his way up the ladder, working for major blue-chip companies. By his mid-twenties and fuelled by a competitive nature, Adam excelled in meeting targets and held well paid National Sales positions. But something was missing from his life.
In 2006 he boarded a plane for a family holiday to Australia and he watched an in-flight movie called "On A Clear Day", about a man who swims the English Channel. This movie inspired Adam to do just that! He wasted no time in training and set the date to swim the Channel. Over the following months Adam put himself through a rigorous training plan, his first experience of open water taught him his biggest lesson. After 45 minutes in 9 degrees Celsius he became severely hypothermic, but rather than putting Adam off he took that as a lesson learned and waited a few months until the water temperature was up and acclimatised his body properly.
In 2008 Adam swam the English Channel, it wasn't without hardships, but he completed his challenge and immediately wanted something else to aim for. He decided to swim the Gibraltar Straits next, this would be warmer and it was a shorter distance. Although if he could build up his speed he had the opportunity to swim both ways! Adam became the first British person to achieve a 2 Way Gibraltar Strait crossing.
Just as he completed Gibraltar the #Oceans #7 #Challenge was born, and Adam had already swam two of the #channels on the list, so he decided that this was to be his ultimate challenge. Adam had ruptured a bicep tendon swimming the English Channel, which required 3 operations in total in an attempt to re-attach the fibres.
Ocean Walker
From a young age Founder of the Ocean Walker, Adam Walker has always had a passion for both swimming and helping others achieve their goals and dreams.
Since 2013 Adam and Head Coach Gemma Clarke have coached more than 40 DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES IN 16 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES the Ocean Walker Technique™ through Swim Camps, 1-1 lessons, Skype Program, Webinar sessions and privately arranged groups.
The Ocean Walker® brand has become internationally recognised through Adam Walker's unique style of swimming and global presence. The Best Selling Authors ground-breaking swim stroke is enabling people around the world of varying abilities to swim faster for longer while reducing the chance of injury. Due to working within the bodies natural range the Ocean Walker Technique is allowing previously injured and rehabilitating swimmers to continue swimming for health, fitness and enjoyment.
In 2018, following high demand to learn and teach the revolutionary Ocean Walker Technique, the Ocean Walker Academy was launched. Moving forward plans are underway to open a brand new purpose-built specialist swim centre. The Ocean Walker Academy Headquarters is set to open in 2021
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My Channel
Reviewing products for both summer and winter swimming. Accomplished swims are The Solent, Alcatraz and channel solo qualifier. I am a member of the Adam Walker Swim School and a volunteer crew member for the RNLI.
I want to help people enjoy the water in nature whilst being safe and keeping warm.
Advice and guidance on cold water outdoor swimming.
I am a Child & Adolescent trauma therapist and work with both children and adults that have experienced trauma and anxiety.
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I have been to Adam's Camp in Maldives and I am indebted to him for changing my life completely. I loved water, but to have this man make me feel that water loves me felt unbelievable :)
I agree. The Malta camp was a life changer for me. He is brilliant at coaching and is positive and encouraging.
Same here but without meeting Adam personally only videos and practice! Masterpiece Technique!
Loved t interview Adam, thanks for sharing your technique. As a survivor of emergency open-heart surgery which replaced my ascending aorta + aortic valve (sexy titanium valve +Dacron pipe) swimming was my go-to for recovery (before t “event” had got into open-water out here in NZ) + rotating more made SUCH a difference to my ability to just keep going, definitely eases things. keep spreading t message : )
Glad you enjoyed the video