{"id":2133,"date":"2025-09-05T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clube-swim4fun.pt\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:19:38","slug":"metade-pessoa-metade-tubarao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clube-swim4fun.pt\/en\/metade-pessoa-metade-tubarao\/","title":{"rendered":"Half person, half shark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I grew up in the sea; from early on, the connection became evident and transformative.
Perhaps it didn\u2019t start in the best way: when I was three or four years old, I was swallowed by a wave at the shore, giving my parents \u2014 who were calmly resting on their towels \u2014 quite a scare. I know, from their words, that I was wrapped up for a few seconds in that churning foam. Fortunately, my father managed to grab me, literally by the hair, and pull me out of the water.
It could have been the cue to never go into the sea again, but it seems I experienced the opposite effect. Perhaps because of the salty gulps I swallowed, I realized that I wanted to carry the sea with me for the rest of my life.
Later, after starting school at the age of five, I joined swimming in a pool and began competing early on. At the same time, I practiced football and also karate \u2014 weekends were spent jumping from one competition to another, getting out of the water and running to play a football match just minutes later.
As I grew older, times changed \u2014 university became demanding, and I had to give up almost everything related to sports. I enrolled in arts\/design in Caldas da Rainha, which took up most of my time, between studies and the rebellious spirit that the city and the school environment inspired
Anos mais tarde, de regresso a Lisboa, surgiu o desejo de voltar a entrar na \u00e1gua. Desta vez no mar. Conheci pela primeira vez o termo \u201c\u00e1guas abertas\u201d.
My first experience, and in a group, was one of belonging \u2014 also of longing, butterflies in my stomach, and a craving for more. Feeling the sea breeze early in the morning, the chill of the winter water, the light of the sunrise, sharing strokes with others, the smile of happiness on everyone\u2019s face \u2014 all this made me realize that I want to keep this lifestyle and philosophy, because it is truly the small pleasures like these that make life much greater and more interesting to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, as a recent father of two, I try to pass on to them this legacy \u2014 of being in contact with the sea, with wild nature, or even in the pool \u2014 to have the calm and the boldness to overcome obstacles that will inevitably arise in sports as well as in life.
Swimming is complete; it makes us better and more serene \u2014 perhaps because water has been with us since we were just a grain of sand in our mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us continue swimming together out into the open sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F\u00e1bio Chainho Costa<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cresci no mar, desde cedo que a liga\u00e7\u00e3o se tornou evidente e transformadora.Talvez n\u00e3o tenha come\u00e7ado da melhor forma, com tr\u00eas, quatro anos, fui engolido por uma onda \u00e1 beira mar que pregou um valente susto aos meus pais \u2014 que estavam descansados nas suas toalhas. Sei, pelas suas palavras, que fiquei alguns segundos embrulhado … <\/p>\n

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