Clever Dicks

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Clever Dicks

A light hearted podcast by swimmers for ordinary people who like to swim. Every fortnight another episode is released either with Duncan & Jim covering topics of general interest, or talking to interesting swimmers from New Zealand and around the world.

  1. 11 NOV

    E27 - Colin S MacLeod - doing swim camping in Scotland

    Send us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Colin McLeod.Colin lives in the outer Hebrides which is part of Scotland.He has done some amazing swims, even though the water there must be quite cold (he happily uses a wetsuit). Many of his swims are for charity, he has supported quite a few in his time. Currently he is attempting to swim the same distance as from Land's End to John O'Groats, 841 miles in under a year. I'm sure he will have completed that by the time this is released.H...

    41 min

  2. 28 OCT

    E26 - Sheryl McLay, a previous competitive marathon swimmer, event organiser, but still a swim coach

    Send us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Sheryl McLay.Sheryl used to be a competitive marathon swimmer and has swum many of the great marathon swim, Cook Strait, English channel & Taupo. After stopping to swim competitively Sheryl carried on coaching swimmers and organising swim events.We talk about how Covid made it too hard to continue organising events and how local/smaller events are harder to run now.Sheryl is a life member of Surf Lifesaving New Zealand and is pas...

    53 min

  3. 14 OCT

    E25 - Ben Clavel - a wonderful swim story from the other side of the ditch (Aussie!)

    Send us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Ben Clavel.We met Ben when he came over to New Zealand from Australia to swim at our Ice Swimming pool championships.Ben hasn't been swimming for long, but already has achived more than many others.He got started as a means to support his kids who were into swimming, and then got going in his own way.He swam the English Channel in a relaym with almost no ocean swimming experience, and if that was not enough decided to come to NZ with one ...

    55 min

  4. 30 SEPT

    E24 - Brent Bythell , a disabled swimmer who swims in the ice and also hold a world record for freediving

    Send us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Brent Bythell.Brent is a disbled swimmer from the top of the south island of New Zealand. We first met Brent at the St Bathans openwater ice swimming event in 2023, and later at Alexandra ice pool champs in 2024.We talk to him about why he started cold water immersion and the road to ice swimming. (he hasn't had a hot shower in 8 years!).But that's not all. Brent also is a world record holder and has a place in the Guinness book of world ...

    49 min

  5. 16 SEPT

    E23 - Peter Plavec all about Ice swimming in Europe

    Send us a textIn this episore Duncan & Jim talk to Peter Plavec.Peter has done numerous ice swims with a number of ice kilometers and an ice mile. He gives us lots of nuggets about how he approaches cold water swimming and we talk about what it is like in Europe.He is very active on Instragram so if you would like to see what he is up to, here's a link.Peter Plavec on Instagram

    45 min

  6. 2 SEPT

    E22 - Ruthy - passionate swimming, spanish style

    Send us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim speak to Ruth.Ruth grew up in Spain, then spent some time in Chile before settling in New Zealand.Ruthy (as most peope refer to her as) loves the pool, but took up openwater swimming in NZ with the Kohi Kippers.Ruthy has swum Lake Taupo and the Apolima Strait, both big swims with their own challenges.A passionate swimmer she even talked Duncan to a standstill!

    1 hr

  7. 19 AUG

    E21 - Ram Barkai - the founder of Ice Swimming International

    Send us a textIn this episode Duncan & Jim talk to Ram Barkai.Many people will know of Ram as the founder of the International Ice Swimming Association (IISA), but there's more to Ram than that.Before founding IISA he had done numeraous adventure swims, including a massive swim along the Orange river in South Africa over 4 years.He organised 'freedom' swims from Robben Island at Cape Town, and even did the swim at night.He took Duncan on his first Ice swim in South Africa, not sure he has...

    59 min

  8. 5 AUG

    E20 - Ice swimming, is it as crazy as it sounds?

    Send us a textThe New Zealand Ice swimming pool championships occured from 9 - 13 July 2024. Duncan & Jim were there (and did some swimming) and got to speak to a number of swimmers there.We talked about our swoms, why we do cold swimming and asked others why they swim in cold water.An interesting group of people and interesting answers.If you want to know why people do it, or if you are curious and want to learn more then this episode is for you.

    31 min
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About

A light hearted podcast by swimmers for ordinary people who like to swim. Every fortnight another episode is released either with Duncan & Jim covering topics of general interest, or talking to interesting swimmers from New Zealand and around the world.

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  • Creator
    Jim & Duncan
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Clever Dicks
  • Show Website
    Clever Dicks

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