DNF au naturel

[XabreTooth]

It seems to me that wetsuit and neck weight has enabled divers to achieve distances not possible without using the above mentioned aids.

I mean: without weights packing air would not be as beneficial, since gliding does not really work that well with surplus buoyancy. And additionally the wetsuit enables a longer glide from its slick surface and perhaps also because the balance between your legs and torso can be fine tuned.

So, my question is: what is the longest distance achieved in the no-fins discipline without any aids?

 

[Kars]

Nice Challenge!

 

[Apneaddict]

I see a lot of shaving and waxing in the male division, if wetsuits aren't allowed.

 

[Siku]

Is neutral bouyancy more important than the additional air?

We have a couple of divers in the club who are neutral on half lung. I guess this challenge favours the lean!

 

[rogam44]

Once I did 50m DNF FRC in 50m pool. But I have a lot of drag - hair all over the body

 

[neutrino]

I'm trying to follow this guy in my freediving adventure, no weights, no wetsuit, no fins
[ame=http://youtu.be/MgRpwESWPLM]Sea Bed Hunting On One Breath - Human Planet: Oceans, preview - BBC One - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Apneaddict]

Once I did 50m DNF FRC in 50m pool. But I have a lot of drag - hair all over the body

I did the same thing. Perfectly neutral... And MASSIVE dive response and was quite tiring, actually. Heavy contractions. I'm fairly well man-scaped... So I suppose that rogam's 50m is more impressive.

 

[growingupninja]

When I was competive swimmer most of the better guys on my team could do 75yds without incident by the time we were in our teens. That was just speedo and goggles... we didn't know anything about apnea and dive response and were swimming very fast by freediving DNF standards.

Since I mostly pool train for spearing instead of comp I still swim without weights or wetsuit in a pool. You have to swim a little faster to counteract bouyancy and/or swim deeper, but with a large surface area (like a mono) you can definitely still glide a bit.

 

[growingupninja]

One other thing I realized when pool training this morning about finning in a pool while extremely bouyant--it forces the swimmer to have a more powerful/efficient upstroke because this part of the kick is what keeps you at your choosen depth. So, for any fin kick, especially mono/dolphin, it forces you to engage the lower back. For a stereo kick you can substitute calves on the upstroke instead of lower back...

(Sorry to hijack the thread but while on the subject of au naturel)

 

[Siku]

One of our guys just got back from a holiday in Sri Lanka where they had a hotel with a 75m pool! He made the full 75m with no weights and no suit.

Impressive dive...

Can any one beat 75m no fins, no weights?

 

[neutrino]

One of our guys just got back from a holiday in Sri Lanka where they had a hotel with a 75m pool! He made the full 75m with no weights and no suit.

Impressive dive...

Can any one beat 75m no fins, no weights?

Hard to find a 75m pool to beat that and I don't think that 3x25m is any equivalent.

 

[Phil C]

Not au naturel as wearing suit, but note the lack of weights.
YouTube

 

[Siku]

Hard to find a 75m pool to beat that and I don't think that 3x25m is any equivalent.

No? 3x25 is QUITE similar to 75. If you mean that the lack of turns is a disadvantage there has been lots of discussion of this and the conclusion is that it makes less difference than you might think. Looking at the distances acheived in 50m vs 25m pools at competition it really doesn't seem to matter. But I suppose if (like me) you're rubbish at dnf but ok at turns then yes, the 25m pool probably does help.

 

[Siku]

Not au naturel as wearing suit, but note the lack of weights.
YouTube

144m on exhale! Amazing!

Does Phillip post on here? Perhaps he has some insight into how best to approach this?

So, can anyone beat 144m? There's lot's of big swimmers on here, come on guys tell us where the limits are..

 

[baiyoke]

Wow.. very impressive dive..!

However, as stated before, no speedos shown, so it's not au natural. (I recon speedos are temporarily allowed in the "au natural" catagori, if video is to be posted )

 

[Kars]

The video link of the exhale DNF dive:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5svdrEYa51Q&feature=share&list=PL512DCEF1F452C014]Philip Clayton - DeepObsession 2011 - YouTube[/ame]