[fpernett]

I totally agree with all of you. This is against the free association and against the human being right to choose.
I think that this banning politic are due to AIDA. They never believe AIDA will grow in the way it did. And now they want to take the control back. As you have mentioned, some high ranking CMAS directives are against deep freediving, but I know that people from Spain is trying to make Constant weight an official discipline again.
I think the solution must come from athletes and federations. If the athletes keep attending AIDA competitions despite the banning, and the Federations (which is more difficult) keep association with AIDA International, CMAS has to reconsider that awful position.
I think the most difficult part is that country federations doesn't obey the banning because of the other sport disciplines they have. There are many more rugby players and fin swimmers than freedivers (at least in my country).
And that takes me to an old question made to many people. Why CMAS controls so many sports?. There is no World Overwater Federation that controls football, basketball, athletism, etc. Underwater activities are so different that everyone should have it's own federation. Why can't be created a World Freediving Federation, directed by freedivers and forget about CMAS?. Why AIDA International can't be this World Federation?