Sydney Roberts an open water swimmer that started her swimming in the San Francisco Bay with Water World Swim when she was only 12 years old. Her goal was always to swim long distances and she set a goal, to swim a challenging swim. Once she started swimming in the cold waters of the bay, she immediately started to become one of the fastest and dedicated to take challenges like swimming from Alcatraz and other long distances swims, either with wetsuit or skin.  When she was only 16 years old...

During the pandemic Coach Pedro had the opportunity to have a conversation with another coach across the atlantic. Here some of his topics on different areas about his coaching life in Austria. This conversation has been edited in order to hear the main issues of coaching in Europe and mainly during the times of pandemic

Coach Pedro gives an update of the Pandemic Situation on May 2021 - Announcing the opening and relaxation of the lockdown

Coach Pedro announces the situation of the pandemic when the U.S. announces the pandemic lockdown

Two great swim sisters converse with Coach Pedro about their experiences dealing with the lockdown and not swimming- Their discovery of open water swimming 

During the pandemic of these past two years, in July 2021 Coach Pedro had the opportunity to talk to Coach Arno from Austria and exchange the experiences that swimmers in general were experiencing due to these drastic changes we all had to go through and for many to try open water swimming for their first time in life. Interesting exchange of ideas and experiences.  Coach Arno grew up in St. Johann in Tirol / He has competed as also has his team participating in competitions in Austria Swim...

Conversation with the founders of one of the most beautiful swim races in South America, Johathan Jimenez and Mary Louise Thon. 13.5 Km River Tolten Chile. This is one of the most fascinating swims along a river that ends in the Pacific Ocean, running throughout beautiful natural landscapes in one of the most beautiful parts of the south of Chile.  Besides swimming this zone and areas offers a number of adventure tourism activities, like kayaking, fly fishing, trekking, and river rafting....

This conversation was with  Rishima Tewari! a 17 years old and a senior at Lynbrook High school. She is part of her school’s swimming and water polo teams and have been competitively swimming with DACA (De Anza Aquatics ) since the seventh grade. She also teaches at the DACA swim school. Aside from swimming and water polo, she is involved with FBLA (a business club), Indesign (a fashion club), and French Honor Society at school. In her  free time, I like to hike and sew. In college, she plans...

Conversations with Coach Pedro. - Coach Pedro interviews two members of Water World Swim, from the "New Waves" team, swimmers under 18 years old.  Manisva and Mahika, 16 and 14 years old, both students at Cupertino High School, in California, have been swimming open waters of the San Francisco bay, for over 5 years. After being sheltered in place at home for two months, it was interesting to see them coming back with great attitude and energy to take part on our first two training sessions in...