Hey Guys, You all know Im not the best freediver ever, just a well practised and trained one with worn out equipment, not so much of a blubber belly now though but still the wrong side of 50. The thing is, you never can be a good freediver unless you use your equipment until it does get worn out. I think that is especially true for dynamic. Dynamic requires you to swim the miles, lots of them. Not just a few 50m splits in a 30 minute pool session. But literally 50 turns in a session. Dont be afraid to damage your kit. As for comps, I always used my old training fin because I never gave myself time before a comp to get training with my better ones, and that was stupid. I do know what its like to try to keep your kit in good order, so much so, that we are scared to use it. My best fin was bought in Tomsk when I was there for training, I havent used it once since I got home. I dont want to damage it. Now its just a souvenir. Somehow that defeats the object. But it sits next to my worn out one, which has done so much for me. And when I get back in the water with a mono, it will be with the worn out one.
Anyway, Mig broke his doing tumble turns in Tomsk. Gosh, I wish I could do all that again...........maybe I will. But for now, I use my brand new Omer carbon fibre bi fins and I am careful with them. But I hope they get worn out by the end of 2008, but not broken.
See you guys somewhere wet.
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