I post this poll to hear íf people are prepared to seek out an official education before entering an Apnea competition (excluding spearfishing & team sports). This is obviously to highten safety as in other risky sports, like special driving licences in car racing.
It's open for debate. Personally, I wouldn't make such a move right away. I would await more freedivers to get a chance to actually take the courses, because these aren't widely spread at present. I would wait for like 2010 and after this date noone can compete without a accepted education.
In the poll I assume that the competitions stay within the AIDA administration for simplicity and that the AIDA standards are mandatory. The question is if one can accept having to have taken an education before one can compete, and if so which fractions' standards can be accepted.
Chris Engelbrecht, Copenhagen
It's open for debate. Personally, I wouldn't make such a move right away. I would await more freedivers to get a chance to actually take the courses, because these aren't widely spread at present. I would wait for like 2010 and after this date noone can compete without a accepted education.
In the poll I assume that the competitions stay within the AIDA administration for simplicity and that the AIDA standards are mandatory. The question is if one can accept having to have taken an education before one can compete, and if so which fractions' standards can be accepted.
Chris Engelbrecht, Copenhagen