CMAS have a connection with underwater hockey maybe but lets just hope they stay away from freediving in NZ! Their nonsensical rules have no place here!
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CMAS World Championships
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Nobody will deny you entry if you want to go to a swimming pool privately. However, there are hundreds of diverse clubs in each city who request lanes and time in public swimming pool. The City Hall will simply ignore any requests from clubs that are not organized under some state approved federation. I am afraid that there is little you could complain about in this case - such behaviour is pretty well understandlable and pretty standard almost everywhere (where public pools exist). Now, they will certainly not deny you the entry if you come in public hours (alone or with your buddies), but most pools forbid use of fins and masks in public hours, and most of them also forbid swimming underwater. So the training in such conditions may be rather difficult, not speaking about the legal responsibility and insurance cover in case of an incident - it it becomes clear you were training apnea in violation of pool restriction, it may easily turn rather ugly.
I see your point guys. I guess I am lucky that there are no such restrictions placed on us.
As an organised group there are only 3 of us with another who joins in when in town. We explain what the purpose of our visits are and have no trouble booking lanes. There has never been any question from pool staff about affiliation with clubs. Neither has there ever been any objection to the use of fins or swimming underwater at any facility I have visited in NZ.
Just to clarify - I am talking about FREEDIVING, not underwater hockey.
As an organised group there are only 3 of us with another who joins in when in town. We explain what the purpose of our visits are and have no trouble booking lanes. There has never been any question from pool staff about affiliation with clubs. Neither has there ever been any objection to the use of fins or swimming underwater at any facility I have visited in NZ.
Just to clarify - I am talking about FREEDIVING, not underwater hockey.
I just want to add that I find the regulations correct and rather positive (when not abused). And the French FFESSM (branch of CMAS) unlike the international body, is also quite in good relations with AIDA - they even have an agreement about accepting each others licences (freedivers, judges, instructors), and you won't have any problems in local competitions if you participated at an AIDA event. On the other hand, their way of education differs considerably from AIDA's point of view and is rather focused on the security and the recreational element than on the sportive / competitive aspect. That's in pure freediving - in other UW sports it may be much worse - for example, as I already wrote earlier, it is true they banned UW rugby, so there is very little chance for any UW rugby team in France to get pool time.