Endtroducing...djball aka charleshui

12 Aug - 9th Sept 2012 I didn't realized I still put this post in the draft...what a career highlight that should be recorded!! It was sudden. 4 weeks of business trip to Sydney for coverage and staff training! What more should I ask for! Sydney air is fresh, sky is blue, weather is cold and sometime windy in August. Fraser Suites is great and spacious! It was the great explosure from career and also from the sports I like. My first time to work oversea, knowing how the sports in everyone bloodstream, they cycle to work, go running or gym during lunch, run or cycle back home, swim training is like their daily meal, Thursday shopping day, Friday afternoon start drinking, weekend morning training follow by brunch and cup of coffee, Sydney coffee is surprisingly great with strong Italian influrences no wonder Starbucks failed. Joining vladswim every Tue, Thur,  5pm off from work, 6pm already in the water, feeling was surreal! Mon, Wed I'd go running at Botanic Garden and the Domai...

World champion swimmer dies at 26 after having massive heart attack as he showered at training camp Swimmers found him dead when he didn't come out of shower after training in Flagstaff, Arizona In his final tweet, he wrote of looking forward to returning to 'the most beautiful city in Norway, Bergen' He was world 100m breaststroke champion and silver medalist at Beijing Olympics Norwegian Alexander Dale Oen dedicated World Championship Gold to the 77 victims of mass murderer Anders Breivik Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137853/World-champion-swimmer-Alexander-Dale-Oen-dies-26.html#ixzz1tdYuWKDx

Kicking start the 2012 training by a few loop swim and sand run at deep water bay, the. 10k run to South Bay. Bunch at VRC is heaven!

A few sessions of elastic band on ankle, love and hate! I fully believe in what my coach asked me to do, just sometime it's too exhausted and trying to understand what's the other coach comment from the other part of the world. Result are all positive and align with the same angle!  Swim band - little something we have forgotten... - Band-only - Swimming with an ankle band is probably not one of the most popular swim drills, but it is one of the most effective. An ankle band can be made of an old bicycle tube tied into a loop, and it will eliminate the kick from your freestyle. Doing so forces a swimmer to find a way to catch more water, otherwise they don't move forward; hence, it is often called a sink-or-swim drill. When first starting out with the ankle band, it can be difficult to maintain a good body position. The legs sink and it takes quite a bit of energy to move up and down the pool. Over time, however, swimmers learn to hold more water with each str...

Tough run 3x1.2k@4.5mins pace plus 6x300m sprint and push-up punishment and then swim 10x100m @1:45....WTF!!! But feeling great after all, I love punishment!

I started swimming at the new year eve!!! Under 10C degree!!!! (with pull buoy)

Olympic 10K Marathon Swim Another interesting swimming website worth to be bookmarked!

A big milestone in my swimming! 2.2k truely open water swim from Big Wave Bay to Shek O for 38-39mins! 5th of July was a beautiful day, blue sky, sunshine, south wind, perfect for the swim in this route! The ocean looked pretty and pretty calm and flat in the far view. But the fact is, swimming out of Big Wave Bay is actually quite choppy and quite a wave! You need to have the gust and the skill to master the environment, I swam all the way with confident and effort without single moment of feeling panic! I grow up and becoming more mature in the swim, if I did it in two years ago, I thought I'd throw my towel and get on the boat. I am happy about my swim over this 2.2k, I am happy with all my training paid off, and I am also happy to realize the benefit to the strong core that could really help in riding the wave and help to catch another group of swimmers that was ahead of you! The Shek O Open Water Challenge is the swim for the people really like swimming and adventure, it's...