How to Wild Swim, Ella Foote
How to Wild Swim, Ella Foote
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How to Wild Swim
What to Know Before Taking the Plunge

Author: Ella Foote

Narrator: Ella Foote

Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: DK

Published: 11/07/2023


Synopsis

The manual every amateur wild swimmer needs to read before diving in.

Whether you want to explore remote beaches and mountain lochs, improve your confidence in open water, refine your swimming technique, or have a race or long-distance swim challenge coming up, How to Wild Swim offers the perfect practical foundation to help you find your perfect adventure and achieve your goal.

This body conditioning sport is praised for not only making us stronger and healthier but also happier too. Wetsuits are optional, in fact no expensive gear is essential. Nailing the how-to, however, is key. Expert wild swimmer Ella Foote offers the ultimate guide to mastering the practicalities and techniques and answers your most frequently asked questions so that you can feel safe, have fun, and re-energize.

So no matter what your goal - short wild swims and weekend breaks, to full adventure swimming expeditions and off-grid holidays - dive right in and submerge yourself in the wild, watery pages of this fearless book.

© 2023 Ella Foote © 2023 DK Audio

About The Author

Ella Foote is director and founder of Dip Advisor, an outdoor swim guiding company offering swim experiences in wild, beautiful, and open water locations. She’s also editor of Outdoor Swimmer magazine, covering swimming locations, amazing challenges, and the best training. Ella is also an RLSS Open Water Lifeguard, STA Open Water Coach, and STA Swim Teacher.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yvonne

This is a fabulous book for anyone thinking about Wild Swimming. I am a wild swimmer and I swim in the sea. Living on the coast means I am aware of the dangers of sea swimming, tides, currents, rips and also how things can go wrong quickly. This book gives a good basic grounding in what to expect, a......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I listened to this book as an audio book but suspect if I were to read the book and see it with images, I would give it a higher rating. It doesn’t really work that well as an audio book although there was some excellent information. I think this book would have been also better read at the start of......more