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#16
February 29th, 2008
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This was a great competition. My first as judge, so to say it was weird not to pull on the wetsuit and jump in with everyone else is a massive understatement.
But luckily the other judges Hans, Katja and Christoph were excellent to me and gave me tons of great advice. In a funny coincidence, Katja and Hans were the judges in my very first competition so it felt a bit full circle. Judging is exhausting! Concentrating for that long left a permant scar on my brain i'm sure. The highs were fantastic, getting a handshake or a kiss on the cheek from the competitors made my day. The lows were pretty low, particularly when the red cards are for trivial things that you see but the athlete doesn't. I've been in that boat before so I know how they feel, even if they don't believe me  The absolute worst was giving Tim, a good mate and dive buddy, a red card for leaving his noseclip on during the SP when he clearly looked fine and looked exactly how we've trained before (clearly you can trust me to be an impartial judge!!). But there weren't many lows at all.Funniest moment for me was in the dynamic, we were judging a guy and in the middle of his dive the other judge tells me this guy is colourblind. he surfaces, does the SP correctly and stares blankly at us until the 30 seconds is up. Judges look at each other, nod, and both put a white card in front of him, he does not flinch and still stares blankly at us, we wait for him to move, he stares, and Hans and I yell "WHITE CARD!!!!" at him at the exact same time, and he smiles and jumps out of the pool. I couldn't stop laughing  A close second was a women that I had DQed in static for performing the SP in the wrong order. I was judging her again in Dynamic and I was rightly sh*tting myself because I didn't want to give her 2 red cards in a day! Towards the end of her dynamic she was well over her PB, looks up at the end of the pool, swims faster, all the trademarks of an oncoming BO. She surfaces at 100m, breaths, looks at me, takes the mask off, does a massively obvious ok sign, waits a second, then screams "I AM OK!!!" in my face which drew a lot of laughter from all around, including me. I'm so glad she doesn't hate me now  Another fantastic moment was Claudia Rollero's Dynamic. When she was breathing up Hans warned me that she was very very slow but when she started I could not believe how slow she went. We had to stop about 4 times per lap so she could catch up to us, and we were shuffling! Eventually a bit over 3 minutes later she came up at 145m and did her SP to get the Swiss National Record. Later on she was hooking into the champagne, deservedly so. Martin Muller put in a superb effort pulling this comp together, and the other guys like Sven (I think it was) really made it work well. There were plenty of hiccups but they were all dealt with swiftly and kept is going for the athletes. Top marks for the team. So all in all a fantastic comp, lots of great results, no BO's Dynamic (only 2 in static) and awesome to see a bunch of mates together again. And also meet some new faces like Martin Macnaughton who has literally come from nowhere and destroyed the dynamic record. Nice bloke too, so expect to see a lot more from him in the future. Cheerio, Ben
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#17
February 29th, 2008
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Well Done Mr Macnaughty :-) .. World class!!
Hope to meet you sometime Sounds like a good competition.... harsh judges though... sheesh. lol Well done everbody
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#18
March 1st, 2008
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I can't wait to judge you Millard!
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Freediving Forums Mentor That's where I saw the leprechaun. He told me to burn things. http://freedivingbenny.blogspot.com/
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#19
March 1st, 2008
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I'll flip you the bird and show my ass big boy.
I thought you already knew the results anyway??  xxx Love you really 
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#20
March 1st, 2008
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As long as it's within the rules you can flip and show me whatever you want
 Love you too matey 
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Freediving Forums Mentor That's where I saw the leprechaun. He told me to burn things. http://freedivingbenny.blogspot.com/
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#21
March 1st, 2008
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OMG.
Benny can i please just point out that we have a purely judge/athlete relationship. Sorry to have led you on. (Goddam i wish i had a flipping the bird smiley LOL)
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#22
March 1st, 2008
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Another ruined thread, sorry.
I will make a new years pact not to any more. Good reading in 2009!!
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#23
March 1st, 2008
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Some usual pictures of unusual people at Diving: free and fair
Sorry for not publishing all of them, technical problems with my ISP made me seek and I'll do some step to fix such situation. It was a nice to see old friends and meet new ones  !
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