September 26, 2010
Ihla Madeira Ihla Desertas Grande Channel, Madeira Islands from Ihla Madeira to Ihla Desertas Grande
An outstanding swimmer of channels, including sharks and whales.
Training, concentration and persistence. These are the secrets of David Yudovin for their many hours of crossing the Ship Channel around the world.
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David Yudovin is an American from California who became known around the world as a channel swimmer. It has successfully managed to cross several oceans, across continents. It is an activity that causes pleasure. Risks, thoughtfully. Decisions, when to leave or swimming, are yours. Therefore refusal Commercial Endorsements. In your resume include the crossings of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, the Tsugaru Strait in Japan, among others. Now added the crossing from Madeira to the Deserted Islands, made earlier this month.
David on Faial where did the first channel in Portugal.
With 60 years of age has an enviable track record and its maritime marathons are all planned in detail, with the help of his wife, Mary Beth, who is 25 years her trainer, accompanying him on all trips. "It is she who knows everything about me, you know what I need to keep in shape and have the necessary conditions for a greater concentration and best effort," said the congenial swimmer who spent three weeks on our island. In addition to Mary Beth, David was accompanied on this trip to Madeira for its pilot, the Azorean Altino Goulart, who met on Faial in 2008, where he made three crossings between the islands of the nearby archipelago. "It's a man who knows a lot of sea, which was a great help, since these crossings need browser, you need someone you know and tell us the best route, then it is a matter of concentration to achieve the objective," he explained to us the United States.
The swimmer said to us that the crossing between Madeira and the Desert presented as an interesting challenge, since this channel is greatly affected by currents and winds that sometimes blow and go in unpredictable ways. He told us that there is no special secret to his success. It's all a result of discipline and concentration to minimize the 'stress', as the swimmer should not be concerned about unnecessary things in the days before the crossing. Revealed to us that has always been a man of causes. When young, the pair of sports - swimming course - played guitar and went with much deliberation the family business. Today he is retired, more time for your 'hobby' of choice, with an enviable athletic and fitness. Ready for new crossings ... despite a big scare now, when once in Indonesia, who suffered a heart attack and stayed for about an hour with the heart stopped. Everyone thought was dead, but the truth is that 'rose' and continued to swim as before.
In the interview he gave us, at Reid's Palace, where he was staying in Madeira, was keen to stress that their equipment to the crossings, some of them over 12 hours, are the trunks, a cap and glasses. Follow the U.S. sports law does not allow facts waterproof or fins.
Shorts, cap and goggles is this equipment that
David Yudovin need for your marathon at sea.Concentration is the key to your success. Even on occasions when he had to swim among sharks and other marine animals larger. Until the passage for Deserted found two whales, huge, killer whales appeared. But remember: "These animals are in their midst, is that we're the intruders, we are their guests and we must respect them. When I went between them without any hitch."
Yudovin David is the grandson of Russians who immigrated to the United States for many years. They engaged in the marketing of fish in California that is in family hands for many decades. David was manager of three international companies in the sector, with the brothers and nephews. How not to have children, your line of succession will lead to the nephews.
In 2008 David Yudovin made the first crossing of the Ship Channel in Portugal. Between the three islands of the archipelago. First it was Faial-Pico, at 2:20 a.m., after Pico-São Jorge at 7:26 a.m. and closed with Raven-Flores, at 7:10 a.m.
For two years they did not swim a crossing. Because all he has done so far, are prepared in advance, with a work of meticulous, it is important to know the seas and the areas that will swim, the means of monitoring the facilities available and relief installed. All these details contribute to the success of every event in that good physical and emotional athlete is the focal point.
David has never turned back in their crossings. And it should for their preparation, hard work that it undertakes every day to be fit and restraints on land and sea that coordinates and directs himself before any crossing. Because he has no intentions competitive, does not accept commercial sponsorships, and goals are personal and plotted as individual goals. The woman is dealing with the physical preparation and everything that can contribute to improved athletic performance, from the gym to practice in the pools. During their stay in Madeira at Reid's Palace, where they stayed three weeks, the couple swam one hour daily in the clear waters of the bay of Funchal, near the hotel.
David and Mary photographed at Reid's Palace Hotel.
The list of channels that David intends to do is still considerable. Includes the Mediterranean, Asia and South Pacific. And admits that Portugal is a strong hypothesis, because she liked enough to be here and think back. No plans for any particular channel.
When he decided to swim in the Wood, David Yudovin conducted reconnaissance of the route, bring your browser Altino Goulart, who is the island of Faial in the Azores, a sailor "with much experience at sea."
In one of the crossings with the support boat.
This first experience in Madeira take the best memories: "It's an absolutely beautiful island, the first time I put my face in the water I was amazed, I could not believe this transparent blue waters of its seas," he observed us.
No doubt they will recommend Madeira to your friends. Will continue to swim, to disclose the island that hosted this summer, because he thinks he looks a lot like many beach towns in California who knows: quiet, facing the sea and very green.
As for the future said to us that some sites will study to decide on their next journey. But sure, is that it will continue without commercial or institutional support, because "it is very dangerous to depend on advertising commitments." If accepted lose autonomy and discretion. "If I had a 'sponsor' the decision would be in accordance with their commitments. I pay everything and have complete control of my business," he explains.
Original Article: www.dnoticias.pt/impressa/revista/228310/228323-factos-david-yudovin-um-arrojado-nadador-de-canais-entre-tubaroes-e-b
