Static Research

[samdive]

A few questions, I'm trying to do some mythbusting......

How long is your best static (in the water)?
How long is your best static (dry)?
Do you use packing for static?
Do you use hyperventilation for static?
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables?
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables?
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming?
Do you actually ENJOY static?

Please answer them if you train static regularly. If you don't want to answer them all (all you competitive types who like to keep your PBs secret!), just answer what you fancy!

Thanks

Sam

[Evita]

I don't mind airing my PBs to help research...

How long is your best static (in the water)? 5.15
How long is your best static (dry)? 4.45 (table, I don't do max dry attempts)
Do you use packing for static? No
Do you use hyperventilation for static? If slow, deep breathing is hyperventilation, then yes
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? Yes - at least I used to and now I am picking it up again
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? Yes - at least I used to and now I am picking it up again
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? Lots of swimming and dynamic training and nothing else
Do you actually ENJOY static? Yes, afterwards

[IronLung]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 4:45
How long is your best static (dry)? 6:04
Do you use packing for static? No
Do you use hyperventilation for static? 2 or 3 breaths
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? no
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? no
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? rarely
Do you actually ENJOY static? yes

[jome]

Ok, I'll bite

How long is your best static (in the water)? 7:46
How long is your best static (dry)? 8:15
Do you use packing for static? Yes, and for top static quite a bit (sometimes almost 3 L). I would preferer without, but the performance benefit is just too much to resist. Try to avoid "bursting" feeling in static nowadays and am quite careful to not over do it...
Do you use hyperventilation for static? Slightly - depends on definition, but I do "breath up".
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? No
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? No
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? Do a lot of endurance training (running, swimming, biking) and some gym training. No other apnea training than static and diving it self (pool or ow)
Do you actually ENJOY static? When you really hit the flow - yes. But on most days, certainly not. Or maybe, in a weird masochistic way. Currently I don't train the deed it self so much at all actually. Only bouts of few weeks before competitions...

[Flojt]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 5'35"
How long is your best static (dry)? 5'30"
Do you use packing for static? yes, not max pack but do pack.
Do you use hyperventilation for static? Slow deep breaths, yes
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? once or twice a month
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? once or twice a month
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? Apneaswim, -walk
Do you actually ENJOY static Some days more, some less.

[SanSan]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 6.18
How long is your best static (dry)? 6.31
Do you use packing for static? yes, alot
Do you use hyperventilation for static? i hyperventilate till 2 mins to start then start breathing normaly
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? no
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? no
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? not for statics actualy, but up in a while i do apnea gym
Do you actually ENJOY static? mostly not, but sometimes its realy enjoing.

[naiad]

Everyone else has gone public, so I'll bite too.

How long is your best static (in the water)? 4:45
How long is your best static (dry)? 5:45
Do you use packing for static? Yes, but not to the max, just a few packs. I don't usually pack for dry statics, only in the pool.
Do you use hyperventilation for static? Yes. Not violent huffing and puffing, but I do breathe fast and deeply for about 2min. This is my only preparation.
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? Yes.
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? Yes.
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? No. I do dynamic training in the pool, but no gym training or swimming.
Do you actually ENJOY static? Yes. (Most of the time...)

[Cornholio]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 4:30
How long is your best static (dry)? 6:00
Do you use packing for static? No
Do you use hyperventilation for static? No (...well, sometimes, but never wet)
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? No
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? No
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? Some apnea walks and swimming
Do you actually ENJOY static? Yes, until it gets difficult...

[timo]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 8:36
How long is your best static (dry)? ~7:00
Do you use packing for static? yes
Do you use hyperventilation for static? no
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? no
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? no
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? no
Do you actually ENJOY static? yes

[perow1]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 6.51
How long is your best static (dry)? 7.04
Do you use packing for static? yes
Do you use hyperventilation for static? Sometimes; trying to figure out what suits me.
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? No
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? No
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? General fitness and freediving.
Do you actually ENJOY static? It´s interesting.

[O'Boy]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 5.36
How long is your best static (dry)? 6.53
Do you use packing for static? yes
Do you use hyperventilation for static? No, I try to avoid it as much as it gets.
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? No
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? No
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? General fitness and apnoe running.
Do you actually ENJOY static? Yes

[samdive]

Thanks guys and girls! what a response!
this is cool, I was working with some of the others on the AIDA courses and putting together some static stuff made me wonder what everyone else does. I will try and put this into some kind of formal results table at some point - keep em coming, PM me if you don't want to go public

By hyperventilation - I mean more huffing and puffing, fast heavy breathing - not the traditional, slow, deep breathe up (which yes, I know is hyperventilation as well!)

Thanks

Sam

[naiad]

I don't ever do huffing and puffing hyperventilation, or long periods (several minutes or more) of hyperventilation. These don't give me good results, and I haven't seen anyone doing impressive statics or dynamics with these methods. I do slow or fast deep breaths for 2min, sometimes until I am a bit hypocapnic. I do more of this dry than in the pool, because it has a much stronger effect in the water for some reason.

Lucia

[Waterenthusiast]

How long is your best static (in the water)? 5'18"
How long is your best static (dry)? 5'07"
Do you use packing for static? yes, a bit
Do you use hyperventilation for static? No
Do you regularly use CO2 Tables? No
Do you regularly use Hypoxic Tables? No
Do you do any other static training - gym training, apnea walks, apnea swimming? 3x a week training in pool (mostly dynamic) + empty lung gym
Do you actually ENJOY static? Yes, when i can get into a deep relaxing state

[jome]

Originally Posted by samdive

By hyperventilation - I mean more huffing and puffing, fast heavy breathing - not the traditional, slow, deep breathe up (which yes, I know is hyperventilation as well!

In that case "no" for me...

If I may ask, what are you getting at?