📘 Finswimming: The Monofin, the book of Davide Manca from Italy 🇮🇹

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“Finswimming – The Monofin” is a comprehensive and practical guide dedicated to finswimming, with a technical and educational approach designed for athletes, coaches, and enthusiasts. The book focuses primarily on the use of the monofin—the essential tool in finswimming disciplines—and provides valuable advice to improve technique, increase endurance, and refine race strategies.

Chapters list

1. About me
2. Introduction
3. Finswimming and apnea
4. Finswimming in short
5. Our Body
6. The Lever Principle
7. The Stages of a race
8. Technique is everything
9. Teacher and coach
10. Breathing in Finswimming
11. Perseverance
12. Standard Equipment
13. The Trainings
14. The Competitions
15. Fins & Body Problems
16. The Stretching
17. General advice
18. Conclusions
19. Acknowledgements

The book is available in English, Italian, Spanish and French

Official Website: finswimmingbook.com  

About the author 

Davide Manca is a passionate Italian finswimming coach and former athlete with extensive experience in swimming, finswimming, and sports education. After being part of the Nord Padania Varedo sports team — later renamed NPS Varedo — he chose to dedicate himself to teaching and preparing new generations of athletes. He currently coaches a finswimming team at the Lido Azzurro pool in Varedo, located in the province of Monza and Brianza, working alongside Valter Mazzei, a prominent coach in the finswimming scene.

Davide has been a top level World finswimmer, winning the European Championships in Open Water in 2002, 3rd in 1998 and 2004. He also took part to the relays who won the World Championships in Open Water in 1999, 2001 and 2005.

Davide is also an old and very good friend of Sportalsub, and is the creator and webmaster of Finswimmer Magazine since 2001

Last Updated on July 10, 2026