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AIDA Indoor Freediving World Championship 2009 - Århus
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There were several very positive moments today, which let forget the robbery nightmare. First of all it was the speed it was handled - in fact nobody would even notice it, the only visible hindrance (but for most relatively unimportant) was the 1 hour delay, which was completely unbelievable.
Then it was the B-finale qualification for my club mate, the French Jerome Chapelle. Many thanks to Carlos who enabled him to get from the 17. place back to the B-finals.
Next pleasure was the performance of Veronika Szalontayová from our mixed Czecho-Slovak team. This girl is unbelievable. Not only she is a beautiful chick, but she got into B-final with 5:31 just one month after she started with freediving (and not having any past career as competitive swimmer or whatever other competitive sport!). It was, of course, her very first competition. Martin Zajac, her coach discovered her this summer during a holiday freediving curse in Croatia and persuaded her to participate on the WC. She has no idea about packing or other freediving techniques, but it does not seem to hinder her too much from beating the Slovak national record by almost a minute.
Also the 11th place of Martin Zajac (SK) and 10th place of Jana Skrobova (CZ) from our joined team, in the DNF finals were a great moment of the day.
Then, of course, it was the 2nd place of my team mate Martin Petrisko, with incredible 182m, beating so his previous national record from yesterday by 6m. And the guy is also a relative newcomer and has still great potential.
The DNF final of Anabel was another great moment. Yesterday she improved her national record to 120m, and today it did not miss a lot to push it again (118m I believe). Being one of the oldest competitors too, I sympathize with her, and we discussed we have to show the youngsters how to dive. Apparently she can do it better than me. Hell, I'll have to wait another 11 years to get to that level.
But probably the ever best moment of the day was the surface protocol of Mikko! He surfaced with relatively bad samba, had big troubles to climb on the side rope, almost dropped twice under water trying to get on it, then could not find his goggles, sliding again, unable to put the goggles up with one hand, the trying another, in between fighting with pulling some hook breath, then finally managed to pull the goggles and nose clip down - everybody thought he won't manage to finish the SP, but to everyone's surprise he suddenly woke up, showed the sign, and with an absolutely cool, stoic, loud, and theatrical voice, under the best control that no TV announcer needed to be ashamed of, he told the magic "I am OK" and shot a charming smile to the judge, as if he wanted to tell "don't worry - it was just theatre for amusing the public". We all exploded in laughing.
Then it was the B-finale qualification for my club mate, the French Jerome Chapelle. Many thanks to Carlos who enabled him to get from the 17. place back to the B-finals.
Next pleasure was the performance of Veronika Szalontayová from our mixed Czecho-Slovak team. This girl is unbelievable. Not only she is a beautiful chick, but she got into B-final with 5:31 just one month after she started with freediving (and not having any past career as competitive swimmer or whatever other competitive sport!). It was, of course, her very first competition. Martin Zajac, her coach discovered her this summer during a holiday freediving curse in Croatia and persuaded her to participate on the WC. She has no idea about packing or other freediving techniques, but it does not seem to hinder her too much from beating the Slovak national record by almost a minute.
Also the 11th place of Martin Zajac (SK) and 10th place of Jana Skrobova (CZ) from our joined team, in the DNF finals were a great moment of the day.
Then, of course, it was the 2nd place of my team mate Martin Petrisko, with incredible 182m, beating so his previous national record from yesterday by 6m. And the guy is also a relative newcomer and has still great potential.
The DNF final of Anabel was another great moment. Yesterday she improved her national record to 120m, and today it did not miss a lot to push it again (118m I believe). Being one of the oldest competitors too, I sympathize with her, and we discussed we have to show the youngsters how to dive. Apparently she can do it better than me. Hell, I'll have to wait another 11 years to get to that level.
But probably the ever best moment of the day was the surface protocol of Mikko! He surfaced with relatively bad samba, had big troubles to climb on the side rope, almost dropped twice under water trying to get on it, then could not find his goggles, sliding again, unable to put the goggles up with one hand, the trying another, in between fighting with pulling some hook breath, then finally managed to pull the goggles and nose clip down - everybody thought he won't manage to finish the SP, but to everyone's surprise he suddenly woke up, showed the sign, and with an absolutely cool, stoic, loud, and theatrical voice, under the best control that no TV announcer needed to be ashamed of, he told the magic "I am OK" and shot a charming smile to the judge, as if he wanted to tell "don't worry - it was just theatre for amusing the public". We all exploded in laughing.
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rxcnc2, really pity you did not come. I was surprised not seeing you there - I had the impression from Prague you wanted to participate. The Danish summer was quite fine - 28 degrees Celsius today. I even went to the beach this afternoon and swam. Originally I wanted to dive little bit, because the sea was surprisingly clear and beautiful two days ago, but unfortunately today it was rough and with zero visibility, so I just dipped in the water quite shortly.
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Is it true, that there was on the wall the time schedule, which was with 15min too late start times? I just heard, that my favourite diver missed completly whole dive preparing because they was looking wrong timed schedule, and was forced to dive without preparing in final. :head
As responsible for the safety team and since a lot of athletes are reading this I'd like to explain how a World Championship safety is run on cases of airways sinking
As this is not your average pool training with your buddy we do not grab the athlete the moment an athlete dips their airway...
Why?
Because it is not always clear what the judge sees and what the camera records so the safety divers are specifically taught not to grab athletes unless they sink clearly and comlpetely - by this we mean their whole face clearly going underwater - that way we can ensure that the performance has for sure being disqualified and the camera has recorded it... Otherwise we risk grabbing someone who is fighting a samba and might have recovered and completed their SP (I safetied 3 such cases myself today in STA) and thus thrown away years of training and preparation by rushing...so the idea is its better to be a little late than a little early when grabbing someone.
The other case when safety grabs an athlete is if the judge has seen something and instructs the safety to grab them...
Thats the story...apart from that with the robbery and being in the water from 8:00 till 20:00 today the safety team is pretty beat up and I've had little time to post updates... the comp is going ahead and some nice performances are happening - an interesting thing is that it is very rare to see a really clean performance during the last couple of days - most performances are sambas.
Back in the water tomorrow at 8:00...
I think the times were correct (at least those I saw), except of the fact that they were all an hour delayed, but that was noted on the bottom. I guess your mate got somehow confused and looked perhaps at the warm-up times (another column than top times) or somehow added wrong delay to it.
Thanks Stavros for the feedback. Yes it makes sense. I did not want to offense you or the safeties, just had the feeling some competitors struggled unnecessarily long time and repeatedly under water. But then again, I saw it only from far away, and perhaps did not see it in the right context. Perhaps judges should have reacted faster and screamed on the safeties to grab the competitors, when they saw the first dip.
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So there was no any movements between the starting time to forward or backward? I just wonder, how the competitor and well experienced assistant could both read time incorrectly.
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Exactly Dave! Bjarte is the new World Champion by their own merits, and was the better in this discipline in the World Championship. Many many thanks to Pim and Ivo for the detailed picture of the Championship.
By the way, my absolutely respect to Mr Mullins, one of world records in this discipline
By the way, my absolutely respect to Mr Mullins, one of world records in this discipline
Nice story, thanx for writing it trux!
That was just one of those Mikko's magic shows he has trained beside freediving
But really, it must have been tight. Altough I have seen his 184 m DNF training performance without any samba, just very sure and cool SP.
I calculated that Finns have done there 6 National Records so far, and won one medal already. Congratulations to whole team, very nice work! :friday
Damn this: Linda showed red card to Anza Jokinen, after 7:31 static! I hope there wasn't any extra text in THAT card. Altough Anza talks loud and a lot, this was not fair, because I'm almost sure his was quiet during his static performance. Linda, what do you mean PBMM (movements), Anza was just winking his eye to you and moving his lips and head when saying without voice "My sweetheart :inlove, you are so lovely", then he suddenly remembered to say with voice "I'm OK!". Or I can image that was the way it went. After the red card Anza probably have other toughts.
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Pim, a huge thanks to you and ALL the awsome ppl working during the WC, you all are giving us a super fast update about the comp. Impressiv work with just bits' and pices left after the breakin.
all White cards for you, a good standard have been set how a WC should be carried out.
Have a great after party, and celabrate the hell out of Aarhus :friday
Hi Trux, well first if I'd come the weather would have been 15C, so it was with a high spirit of sacrifice that I decided to stay home, so that you could go to the beach... Besides, I was counting on Linda to live the real championships from my armchair, but ... where is she, and especially where is her blog?
Trux is there any fotage or video of Mikko and the other guys DNF Finals, would like to see that, your description of it is great and vivid, thanks for the great report. Best of luck to you all, and congratulations to all of you, and you team.