one of the sports bigger problems, I think, is :when does someone how drowned at a pool become a freediver? what is the distinction between a freediver and a few kids challenging each other at the pool? ...anyone swiming a length or two under water can pass out, it doesnt need to have anything to do with freediving, but for the general public and for media it will be "freediver died in swimingpool"...scubadiver doing a little snorkeling after scuba? media writes "freediver died.."..here in Stockholm we have a freediveclub with an hour at a pool every week. we've had that same timeslot for the last five years ( 40 times a year, avarage 10 participents, counting low = 2000 training hours..). In those five years we have had NO serious accidents and I believe a total of two Blackouts. both recovered within seconds and all was well. However, now the manager of the pool has just realized that we practice freediving and we might not get access to the pool next season, becouse what we do is so dangerus..it seems, to him "freediving" is just another word for dying in the pool..
this just makes it so much more important to stick together. never practice alone, inform the people around you what you're doing, make sure your spoter is spoting you and not that babe over there( same goes for you..)
ignorans will always be there and trying to stop us..INFORM THE UNINFORMED..
..and by the way..that same pool during the rest of the week is used by kids, jumping from the hight of a three storie building...and they call us crazy???
Johan
this just makes it so much more important to stick together. never practice alone, inform the people around you what you're doing, make sure your spoter is spoting you and not that babe over there( same goes for you..)
ignorans will always be there and trying to stop us..INFORM THE UNINFORMED..
..and by the way..that same pool during the rest of the week is used by kids, jumping from the hight of a three storie building...and they call us crazy???
Johan