Day One of Freedive Paradise - white cards!

[kelp princess]

Aloha to everyone from Kona, Hawaii. Jessica Wilson reported that they just wrapped up their first day of competition. Today the competition took the divers out to Honaunau bay for a beautiful day of diving. Six divers competed in constant weight, free immersion, and constant no fins. All six divers received white cards, and Annabel Edwards set a new US record for constant weight no fins with a dive to 48 meters.


Here is the list of divers, depths and their discipline:

Ant Judge (AUS) 83m CW
Leo Muraoka (USA) 76m FI
Kurt Chambers (USA) 70m FI
Jessica Wilson (USA) 62m CW
David Sims (USA) 55 FI
Annabel Edwards (USA) 48m CNF

Congrats to everyone!

Tomorrow will take the comp to Jacks Diving Locker for the static competition where 9 people will be participating in the breath hold.

see some photos here:

Photos from Freedive Paradise | Facebook

 

[BennyB]

A huge congratulations to Ant (SayNo2O2) on becoming the second Australian to ever break 80m in constant weight competition!

Ant was one of the earlier guys around in Australian freediving, competing in the Pacific Cup in 2002 but concentrated on spearfishing in the years afterwards, having only really got back into competitive freediving in the last 12 months or so. Considering the amount of constant weight diving we don't get to do down here, his progress has been amazing.

And to all the others - some brilliant results too, well done! Looking forward to hearing about the next day's diving.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[BennyB]

Just heard Bill Graham did 7m39s static new US National record, congrats Bill!

Any news of the other guys?

 

[kmo]

Congrats Ant! Fantastic result.

 

[kelp princess]

Just heard Bill Graham did 7m39s static new US National record, congrats Bill!

Any news of the other guys?

here is day two Benny:

STATICS
Bill Graham 7:39 (ap 7.30) 91.8 point
Kurt Chambers 7:02 (ap 6.00) 84.4 point
Julie Bassilion 6:53 (ap 5.30) 82.6 point
Annabel Edwards 6:17, (ap 2.00) 75.4 points
Ant Judge (Aus) 6:02 (ap 4.00) 72.4 points
Tim Money (UK) 5:45 (ap 5.00) 69 points
David Simms 5:27 (ap 4.00) 65.4 points
Walter Johnson 3:49 (ap 5.00) 30.8 points (incl penalty)
Jessica Wilson 6:32 (ap 5.00) DQ SP

(ap = announced performance, so as you can see many people exceeded by large margins their goals!)

And Bill Graham is officially the new mens US static record holder with 7:39.

all these times are official - Stromberg is there as judge.

A terrific performance by Kurt Chambers with 7:02.

good showing all around :t with more to come!

kp

 

[kokomo]

Well done..

hope to get to half this level soon!!

 

[kelp princess]

Day Four Freedive Paradise - Final results of the comp

Hi guys - These are the official results of the 4th and final day of the comp.

Annabel and all the helpers & participants did a great job:

Ant Judge (AUS) 156m DYN
Jessica Wilson (USA) 136m DYN
Leo Muraoka (USA) 136m DYN
Tim Money (UK) 117m DNF
Annabel Edwards (USA) 116m DNF THIS IS A NEW USA RECORD
Kevin Busscher (USA) 111m DNF
Bill Graham (USA) 109 DYN
David Simms (USA) 81m DNF
Kurt Chambers (USA) 109m DNF DQSP

Second go STATIC:
Ben Weiss (USA) 6.22 STA
Jessica Wilson (USA) 6.00 STA
Walter Johnson (USA) 5.35 STA

cheers,

kp

 

[trux]

Nice results! Congrats to Bill, and to Annabel for their national records! And to all others of course too.

 

[BennyB]

Great results everyone!

Go Timmy, new comp PB!! :friday

 

[sayNO2o2]

thanks benny!
it was a great comp. every thing ran well. big thanks to every one that helped run and safty the comp!
it was a blast to get in a few depth dives.
it was inspiring to see the other divers doing there thing. i mean how good is bill! massive static! he makes me look so soft!

 

[Tony Babowicz]

I wonder why there has been no news announcement from the USAA regarding the new national records?? Seems like they should be worthy of some publicity..