Yes always nice to see Eva and Elizabeth swim, they seem to be stable at their level and close to each other in points, thats always exciting out of an audience point of view. And again Elizabeth is sligthly ahead of Eva:
Fridykning
Wolle did an impressive 139 with bifins and if if wasnt for his "mental absence" after surfacing in STA 7.32 (DQSP) and a pull on the edge after surfacing in DYN (-10p), he would have been right behind Weine with 160 points (two points after).
I guess it takes Severinsen or Per Westin (who lost his dyn record) to beat "power weine". Or off course that german guy who can hold his breath forever might do the job :-)
It was impressive to see Barbara (?) do a dynamic bifins 126 meters in around three minutes. Not even slow Wolle or ultra slow Mikael asp (the quick 16x50 swimmer) came close to that. Asp tried some ultra slow technique that looked more like static the first 50 meters.
Deepdiver Andy on a hard KAMPFSCHWIMMER military education seemed quite tired. Not reaching his AP 100 in dyn. The guy can do 80 in depth, isnt that suppose to be 150 in pool?
Four athletes lost 10 points each for grabbing the each before surfacing. Thats 20 meters in penalty.
I think this rule should be changed - its actually a natural part of freediving to secure oneself for balance when coming up. Even to stretch for a safe point (as Herbert has pointed out aswell). Its just one of those ruleviolations that judges see but media/audience (the day we get one) just will be puzzled by.
Nice to see the apnea in Berlin is working together with a CMAS club (NTV) lots of assistants an very well organized.
Sebastian
-one of the judges who fell asleep with his shoes on after the competition...Z Z Z
