Neptune Finswimming Club is a finswimming club based in Bristol in the United Kingdom and who is affiliated to the British Finswimming Association. [1]
Neptune Finswimming Club is a finswimming club based in Bristol in the United Kingdom and who is affiliated to the British Finswimming Association. [1]
The Neptune Finswimming Club was formed in June 2011. The very first session ran on 22 June 2011 in Thornbury Leisure Centre with just two people attending. As of March 2018, the club claims to be one of the largest finswimming club in the UK with over 30 members and providing sessions for children and adults. [2]
Over the last several years, Neptune Finswimming Club took part in a number of national and international competitions. The club took the lead on organising national finswimming events in 2013–2019.
Participated and organised competitions:
As of April 2018, Neptune Finswimming Club members hold 16 National Records and many age group records [7] in different events.
National records: [8]
A part of other finswimming clubs, Neptune Finswimming Club has tight relationships with Bristol Freedivers club, providing coaching for finswimming technique to their members. [9]
A monofin is a type of swimfin typically used in underwater sports such as finswimming, free-diving and underwater orienteering. It consists of a single or linked surfaces attached to both of the diver's feet, emulating the fluke of Cetaceans like whales or porpoises.
Finswimming is an underwater sport consisting of four techniques involving swimming with the use of fins either on the water's surface using a snorkel with either monofins or bifins or underwater with monofin either by holding one's breath or using open circuit scuba diving equipment. Events exist over distances similar to swimming competitions for both swimming pool and open water venues. Competition at world and continental level is organised by the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS). The sport's first world championship was held in 1976. It also has been featured at the World Games as a trend sport since 1981 and was demonstrated at the 2015 European Games in June 2015.
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