Dave Mullins & Fran Rose, TV Stars!!!

[flying_spanner]

I'd just like to congatulate all those involved (both in front and behind the camera's) with the feature on Freediving that was aird on TV tonight.
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Any media coverage of our sport is a good thing as I'd love some of the Millions of dollars that seem to be injected into rugby be put into our sport to support NZ athletes. The sooner that the New Zealand public realise there are sports other than Rugby (that kiwi's kick arse at too,) and start to support them, the better!!!

Dave you are a true champion, and humble almost to a fault. I wish you all the best for all your dives to come.

PS there is only one problem with the show, My mum watched it also. The part when the divers black out freaked her out somewhat, From now on she'll probably insist that all my future dives are done wearing those swim floaties like you see todlers wearing on their arms at the town pool!!! rofl

Regardless how old you are you're still your mum's little boy I guess.

 

[BennyB]

What an awesome interview. Brilliant footage and not too much "extremeism", well done to all!

 

[Kars]

Hi Flying spanner,

Thank you for the very nice head's up!
I've now seen this nice interview a couple of times, but though the audio is fine the images are like a slide-show to me :'(

Is there anyone with a link to the recorded mediafile I can download, so I can enjoy the moving pictures too?

Thank you very much, and Dave and others great show!
Exposes like these makes me always want to go training right away, very inspirational to watch!

Kars

 

[Mullins]

Thanks guys. I hope nobody gets upset about the '113m' quotes. In an interview I described my deepest dive to them (which ended in a blackout), but of course the media tend not to discriminate between successful and unsuccessful dives in the way that freedivers do. So I'm not trying to diss Guillaume!

Pete Cronshaw - the guy who did the interviews and put it all together - spent quite a bit of time with us and had a pretty good understanding of the sport, even trying it himself a bit. It was good to see freediving presented in a balanced and knowledgable way, even if some of my quotes were patched together from 3 different sentences in answer to a question I was never asked. I think that's just the way of things...

 

[Kman]

Dave and Fran, I would like to say how well I thought you presented yourselves and the sport to the NZ watching public.

Dave, your a true champion and I am so proud to be able to train and associate with you.

Fran, You scrubbed up pretty well there chick! Again, your an awesome ambassador and champion to this sport.

I felt that the article was fairly well balanced, well researched and we can forgive them for the couple of small mistakes that were made.

As for the blackout coverage, it is a part of the sport that people can miss understand and the ones shown were some of the more extreme I have seen (and been present at). I hope that the those filmed/shown do not take it as a bad reflection on them personally or their achievements, but accept that it is a part of the sport and was shown as a holistic overview.

Well done to you both!

 

[Kars]

No 'm not upset about your 113m story. I'm sure you'll do more in the not so distant future when you'll overcome the narcosis. Maybe by reducing your divetime, as Guillaume apparently has done.

Maybe this appears a bit of a cynical look but in my view 'the media' merely are a reflection of their paymasters. On a sidenote: watch how craftily they put in the global (U.N.) campain agaist overweight, connecting it to the challenge of Freediving. Loosing weight as Helix sport?

In the Show I participated in: "Ik wed dat ik 't kan! - I'll bet I can do it!" a connection was made with quitting smoking - the previous worldwide campaign.
Watch it here in Dutch I'm holding my breath on TV for 5'10" to win E1000,-

Show's Website (Dutch)
3,5 minuut onder water zonder zuurstof

(Breathhold item, ~10 min show where I hold my breath for just over 5 minutes, beating the announced 3'30", with some very funny comments for who understands Dutch and freediving )
3,5 minuut onder water zonder zuurstof

In my experience, it's a cold fake plastic hyarchial politcal world of abusers and abused, where substancial things are reduced to soundbites, taken out of context to aid an agenda a process.

Why did I participate in the show? Well I desperately needed the money to pay the Law backed obligatory mediacal insurance.
But it was exiting TV, and maybe it will get some people searching for freediving starting a search into themselves and the world and that may change their lives and those of people arround them. You gotta love the 'positive posibility' thinking mantra

I'm still looking forward to a You-tube/video.google version of Dave Mullins show, I really love to see fluid images of the great man gliding through the blue!

Oh and Dave, you can do Variable Weight prety safely, as you can still rely on your own power to get up! It may be also a way to find a way arround your narcosis challenge?

But I agree the best challenge is still Constant Weight!

Love, Courage and Water,

Kars

 

[sucinimad]

...can't stand statics, horrible and pointless...

rofl awesome!

 

[Mullins]

Kars - yeah I have less of a problem with VW than I do with NLT. But imagine how deep we'd be going if it was a commonly contested competition discipline! I think narcosis and DCS risk would make things very... interesting.

I do enjoy those VW spearfishing dives though

 

[osusim]

Thanx Dave. I'd like the main message of this nice doc for general public: freediver can't be fat. Next step will be freediving T-shirts with a slogan like "want to lose weight ask me how". rofl
Ben, what do you think about it?
The direct link for Media Player plug-in is:
http://media3.tvnz.co.nz/tv2/2008/ws_2020_freediver_161008_128k.wmv

 

[jome]

That was pretty cool, one of the better tv-spots I've seen. Really cool footage too on the deep dives and really nice monofin technique!

But what do you mean there are no fat freedivers?

 

[chrismar]

We'll have to have a word with Fran about that one!

 

[BennyB]

Clearly Fran hasn't seen me in the flesh yet

Mind you, i've put on 10kg's in the 3 months i've been out of the water, there could be something in this fat eating theory. Either way - Igor start printing those tshirts!!

 

[flying_spanner]

OH OH OH, i KNOW!!!

The T-shirst could say

Hey Fatty!
Wanna Be Skinny Like Me?
Try Freediving

Only problem will be I'll have to perfect diving with a black eye.

 

[ILDiver]

I just watched the video. Nicely done! Well spoken.