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Any news from Berlin?
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sorry tim... didn't notice the 0 after the five minutes. Shouldn't the performance score read zero if the athlete was DQd????
anyway I heard it was just a case of Judge Benny B being a bit evil!!! so you can keep the congratulations!!!
anyway I heard it was just a case of Judge Benny B being a bit evil!!! so you can keep the congratulations!!!
Don't worry Dave, you still have a respectable CW record. Anyway, that dynamic record you set was the most exciting freediving record I've ever watched ( no disrespect to the other amazing ones I've seen and judged ). There were a whole crowd of us in Cyprus jumping up and down seeing you do that. Something I'll never forget.
Records come and records go....
Records come and records go....
Some photos uploaded to Havfruerne » - 10. Berliner Mesterskab, sorry about the crappy quality (camera's fault, of course... and as you can tell by the eyes, it was a looong day and night).
Interesting fact, which I dare anyone to double-check and say is incorrect:
***Macnaughton's 178 meter DYN is the best newbie dive in any discipline, ever***
Newbie dive = defined as first AIDA International ranking comp, because the ranking lists are all I had to go by, but it was also his first comp at all, so if you want to throw local/non-AIDA competitions into the definition too, please go ahead. I checked all the big names on all the AIDA ranking lists to see if anyone else had scored 89 points in their first go, but none of them did... so hugely well done to Macnaughton, aside from the national record itself!
Not to put pressure on Macnaughton, it's just such a great newbie/"surprise-national-record" story. I've passed it on to the Danish edition of DIVE and maybe you UK freedivers think it's worth pitching on your side also...?
Interesting fact, which I dare anyone to double-check and say is incorrect:
***Macnaughton's 178 meter DYN is the best newbie dive in any discipline, ever***
Newbie dive = defined as first AIDA International ranking comp, because the ranking lists are all I had to go by, but it was also his first comp at all, so if you want to throw local/non-AIDA competitions into the definition too, please go ahead. I checked all the big names on all the AIDA ranking lists to see if anyone else had scored 89 points in their first go, but none of them did... so hugely well done to Macnaughton, aside from the national record itself!
Not to put pressure on Macnaughton, it's just such a great newbie/"surprise-national-record" story. I've passed it on to the Danish edition of DIVE and maybe you UK freedivers think it's worth pitching on your side also...?
Thanks for the kind words. It was really terrific to experience my first competition, and of course to fianlly meet all the great people who are involved in the sport.
All day I was really looking forward to mingling and drinking beers at the party, but had grossly underestimated the sleep needed to digest all those banannas they kept laying out on a tray:t
Cheers Martin
All day I was really looking forward to mingling and drinking beers at the party, but had grossly underestimated the sleep needed to digest all those banannas they kept laying out on a tray:t
Cheers Martin
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 :martial 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 rofl
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
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 :martial 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 rofl
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
