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bjj, brazilianjiujitsu, challenge, swim, veteran - March 26, 2021

‘Imagine swimming 1000 metres with one arm’

By Mark Ormrod MBE, REORG Trustee.Imagine swimming with both of your legs tied together and your dominant hand tied behind your back. That’s what it’s like for me. So I am not really sure what possessed me to pledge to swim 1000 metres in rough, open water. I used to be a very strong swimmer. You have to be when you’re in the Royal Marines. But then I stepped on a landmine back in 2007 and lost both my legs above the knee and my right arm above the elbow. As you can imagine, I lost a lot of my...

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