AIDA Indoor Freediving World Championship 2009 - Århus

[spar8]

A-final female (preliminairy)
3 Saana Partinen

Super happy to see successful dive from Saana, personal best and even national record. (btw, dive was done without packing :t)

 

[pim]

ps, Johanna broke the record first but only could enjoy this for short time.....

sorry protest coming out now i leave judges killing me :naughty:martial

 

[GreG.]

Congratulations :friday

 

[apneaboy]

Thanks for the pdf Pim

 

[pim]

Thanks for the pdf Pim

it is not the final...will upload soon, 2 chances to mens final (B-final)

 

[pim]

final list for today..................:martial

 

[hynche]

Thank you!!!

 

[pim]

start list for tomorrow...........:crutch

 

[massiliafrog]

THX so much for all the real-time updates, keep going the next days!

 

[TimoP]

Will this be what it takes to make it to the final?
WOMEN
STA. 6'24"
DYN. 162
DNF. 129
MEN
STA. 7'42"
DYN. 218
DNF. 157

Very good forecast so far Bill! Almost exact with DNF A-finals.

 

[Titus74]

Dear Pim, thank you so much for the "on-line" information. In Argentina, we are closely following this World Championship in basis of your reports. Please, continue in the next competition days.

 

[CEngelbrecht]

Three video clips from the World's video channel:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4fFCkjqyk]YouTube - First impressions[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mw1ghcxwN4]YouTube - Interview with Sebastian Näslund[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlLL8nAwaBo]YouTube - Blackout and Samba[/ame]

Shortcut to the Youtube Channel:
YouTube - freewc09's Channel

 

[trux]

B-final male (preliminairy)
1 Katsuya Hamazaki
2 Christian Ernest
3 Jonerik Ekstrom
4 Eric van Riet Paap
5 Martin Zajac
6 Michele Tomasi
7 Ivo Truxa
8 Piotr Bauza

Apparently there were some succesfull protests, so I just discovered I was moved out from the seventh position in B-final to 17th global
Well, anyway, I am happy for my PB of 139m, and also for the national record of my team mate Martin Petrisko

 

[Kars]

Nice clips, are you editing those Chris?

- I noticed it Ivo, but now you've got more time to report!

I think the high amount of BO's are due to the fierce competition with many people close to 150m. What do you guys think or Know?

 

[glennv]

Great job Pim. Thanks. Now go get some well deserved sleep.
Lets hope you can help us out the coming days as well.

Now lets get some videos !!!! I want to see some cool dives

 

[pim]

still awake here... :blackeye and leave to pool just after 7am :crutch


videos are edited by Dan Burton I believe but do not know for sure.....it is from youtupechannel of competition. Oh I heard Herbert will be visiting Aarhus from tomorrow and Peter Pedersen is here also :friday .....

now I go sleep....hope to find time to post all results more 'real-time' but that depends on how good all will go.

 

[Kimmo]

Oh, now I understand why it looked like that Pim is writing to DB all the time. Really good work Pim, thnks!!

I just updloaded couple new shots at: Freediving pictures - 06 Aida pool worlds Denmark

- kimmo

 

[kelp princess]

Apparently there were some succesfull protests, so I just discovered I was moved out from the seventh position in B-final to 17th global
Well, anyway, I am happy for my PB of 139m, and also for the national record of my team mate Martin Petrisko

congrats on your PB trux - well done!

looks like a great comp.

:friday

cheers,

kp

 

[trux]

As for the blackouts - there are really many of them. I've been told 19% of performances finished with blackout, but I am not sure if it is true. However, although I did not watch too much the dives of others, I saw plenty of BO's anyway. And frankly told, the safety was not always very efficient. I saw some of the people dipping repeatedly underwater for several seconds. I hope they get better in the next days.

Although I am in the Czech (and Slovak) team, I am spending a lot of time with the French one too, having two club colleagues, and several friends there. So I was quite disappointed about the DQ of Fred Sessa - he did hundred eighty something performance, but lightly dipped his lips when removing the goggles. There were many cases of really heavy sambas that passed, but unfortunately his protest was rejected.

I am sorry also for the DQ of our CZ-SK team mate, Michal Risian (Picasso here on DB), who did 156 (?) but made the sign to the wrong side.

Otherwise many big names got DQ'd too, but you can see that in the result list. William Trubridge was quite a mystery - nobody saw him here in the days before the competition, or during the announcements, so we could not watch him training. He appeared in the pool only a short time before his top time. He did easy his A-final qualification, but apparently did not push too much and saved forces for today.

EDIT:

congrats on your PB trux - well done

Thanks! It must be thanks to the NZ cap. Kiwies are lucky that it still works, otherwise I'd ask for a refund, and they'd have to return home prematurely, being bancrupt without the main sponsor!

 

[pim]

!!! WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR THE ORGANIZER !!!

The pool is roped last night, all electronics stolen.....


sadly this is no joke and again a sign this world (or at least some people) are wrotten and have no respect. My mind wants to really shit things but I wont lower myself here....

we keep you updated, the Worlds will go on we will help Kurt in all way to fix this for him.

Kurt we all are on our way to the pool.....


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