Fazza Freediving Championships - Dubai

Goran Colak @ Fazza3 2012 finals
[ame=http://youtu.be/b_yoe2avaLU]Goran @ Fazza3 2012 - YouTube[/ame]

Astonishing performance!!

Looks like Goran applied Kathryn's Nevatt "lying on the elbow" style

p.s. Goran, was it a no warmup static? or You did some warmup breatholds before??

Branko Petrovic @ Fazza3 2012 finals
[ame=http://youtu.be/w9zS39UgVHM]Branko @ Fazza3 - YouTube[/ame]

Thank you amro for these highly interesting videos!

Impressing how different Goran and Branko came up ...
I've observed two quite different approaches:
- slow breathing vs. hyperventilation
- position just below surface + lying flat vs. being upright on the bottom.

Of course there may be lots of other points which made the difference. But I think the two mentioned points are rather important.

I just stumble on this post, so sorry to bring it up from history Thank you all for congratulations you gave me, Amro can confirm I promise him 9min breath hold last year, went shy for couple of seconds do...

I do wormups on dry, don't like no worm up statics, but I kinda started to enjoy this way of doing statics, I adapted my training for this event so my statics are all in this direction for the last 1 year. So I came relative close to my normal static PB on training, doing the on the rope style static. There are some disadvantages of course, but if you think a bit deeper about it there is some advantages also, aseptically for me and my style of diving...

Regarding Branko, I don't think his preparation has anything to do with his only 7min breath hold, he prepares like that all the time and he did some long holds like that obviously...