Freediving on YouTube

[Apnea_Addict]

Freediving in Beyrut (even there !)

YouTube - Spearfishing in Beyrut

"Hey, what´s your problem....?"

Enjoy !
Holger

[Apnea_Addict]

The beauty and the jellyfish:

YouTube - BC Freediving With Beautiful Girl

Enjoy !
Holger

[Apnea_Addict]

Kuniko (Japan ?) diving:

YouTube - kuniko

Enjoy !
Holger

[Paul Kotik]

This is just like television, only you can see much further.

[Apnea_Addict]

Freediving in Iceland (does anybody speak the language ?)

YouTube - Freediving in iceland, Silfra

Enjoy !

Holger

[Lammy]

They are diving over the Volcanic Mid-atlantic ridge that runs through iceland, I guess there is some thermal water heating but still chilly.

Then again who wants to dive an active volcano ?

lammy

[Jee]

NIce place, clear water, though not too deep. If it is a volcano, then perhaps not so cold, which is good.

[spearheads]

I have a few videos this is one of them.

YouTube - freediving babbacome and oddicombe

[nostres]

Ice

YouTube - Ice freediving Wisconsin 2007

[Apnea_Addict]

A video of Loic Leferme:

YouTube - Loic Leferme no-limits free diving...

Enjoy !

Holger

[Apnea_Addict]

Benny at the world championship 2006 in egypt - 118 metres dynamic:

YouTube - Freediving 118m Dynamic

Go, Benny, go !

Enjoy

Holger

[trux]

Nice performance. However, in the relation to the current discussion about the "pulling" rule, I wonder if Benny was penalized for the touching of the pool wall before surfacing and then grabbing the edge when surfacing. Again, I do not think it helped him to get any extra cm of performance, but I wonder is the penalty of 20m was applied (as far as I know it was not, though). I think it is just another proof that the rule is nonsense and even if it exists it does not help making the conditions more objective and equal for all, but quite oppositely - very strongly discriminating those who had the bad luck of having a judge applying the penalty!

[BennyB]

Wow - I put that up yesterday to show a mate back home (too big to email), I can't believe you found it so quickly!

Trux - Youtube's a bit grainy so it's a bit harder to make out but my arms were nowhere near the side when I came up, and my head was completely out of the water when I grabbed the side. I surfaced near the wall so I could grab it for support straight away. If you look at the vid again you can see that my left hand is about 20cm away from the wall when my mouth is out, then I place my left hand on the pool edge, then my right and support my head on both hands. There's never any pulling while my airway is either below or above the water, and the only time my hand touched any surface was after the dive.

As long as the airway is clear you can pull yourself over to the wall, that's quite normal and allowed in comp.

Cheers,
Ben

[trux]

Originally Posted by BennyB

Trux - Youtube's a bit grainy so it's a bit harder to make out but my arms were nowhere near the side when I came up, and my head was completely out of the water when I grabbed the side. I surfaced near the wall so I could grab it for support straight away. If you look at the vid again you can see that my left hand is about 20cm away from the wall when my mouth is out, then I place my left hand on the pool edge, then my right and support my head on both hands. There's never any pulling while my airway is either below or above the water, and the only time my hand touched any surface was after the dive.

Well, although you are right that the video is grainy, I can see quite clear that you touch the wall far before you start surfacing your head, and grabbing the edge also before your face is clear. In fact it is much more evident and longer than on the discussed video of Wolle, where he was penalized. I am still persuaded that the penalization is nonsense, and do not want to put your performance in doubts in any way - it was respectful regardless of the grabbing. However, I really think this rule should be abolished, because it apparently lets space for speculations and subjective judgments. Even if I am completely wrong, and you did not touch the wall and grabbed the edge when being underwater, a judge may be exactly as wrong as me - and that's the very problem.

[BennyB]

Trux, as I said earlier at no point did I touch the wall during the performance. I can see that my hands are concealed from the video just before I surface, but this is due to the camera angle and i'm still nowhere near the wall. If it was remotely questionable then the 2 judges, the official video and the 20 people standing around me would have picked up something. I'm afraid you're going to have to take mine and their word for it.