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freediving vs. SCUBA
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rfondren said:
where are you posting from? you are always welcome...
there are loads of great people here and normally few arguments..
Peace
,Sara from Dubai
[ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?p=559375#post559375"]Spearfishing: Good or Bad? - Page 7[/ame]
Read through that :hmm
Its all about Group A not understanding why Group B don't see how unreasonable and shortsighted their (Group B) views are. In the meantime Group B thinks Group A is being unreasonable and shortsighted... :mute
oh and theres various people trying to be reasonable which seems to annoy both A and B rofl
Read through that :hmm
Its all about Group A not understanding why Group B don't see how unreasonable and shortsighted their (Group B) views are. In the meantime Group B thinks Group A is being unreasonable and shortsighted... :mute
oh and theres various people trying to be reasonable which seems to annoy both A and B rofl
Wow, welcome to DB and what a great way to get your first post locked! hopefully this one will stay warm and fuzzy....
rfondren said:
I think that that is a common experience in freediving. Holding one's breath on land is uncomfortable, although I feel disinhibited to try, as I trust that should I lose conciousness, the instinct to breathe will carry me through. Prior to taking up freediving my top breathholds were probably around 2:00. I had never heard of thoracic contractions and certainly would not have speculated that a person could continue to hold there breath and relax while experiencing them. Now experiencing contractions at 20m and knowing that if you decided right then that you couldn't hold your breath any more, you would be left to choose between the impossible and drowning; that's something distinctly unpleasant. And yet, I and a number of other people find ourselves doing this day after day after week after month after season.
For me, I think it is the challenge of overcoming my own assumptions about reality. I like the idea of being in total control of myself. Yoga appeals to me. My super heroes are not supermen, but mere mortals pushing the limits. There are versions of SCUBA diving that are completely equivalent. People diving air @ 200 feet are riding that same tightrope. They are doing something that requires them to overcome instinct and resist any urge to panic. Really and truly panic at any depth on SCUBA could easily be fatal. Freediving I tend to view as slighlty less dangerous meter for meter. Still I enjoy them both.
JasonWelbourne said:
excecpt deep air is STUPID. nothing heroic about it. deep air is reserved for the uneducated and those with a death wish.
I too enjoy the battle for control that freediving permits, something the average scuba diver could never begin to understand
Diving to 200 feet on air in this day and age is a risk to many, years ago we had no alternative (sports divers) and dives of this nature were comomplace, Ive done a couple of dozen myself but the thing was, one didnt just jump in and do them, they took weeks of practice, planning and nitrogen aclimatisation and even then people ran into problems