Im not sure if this is the place to post this but you can hound me later on that and ill learn. I have been reading these forums for the past 5 hours and realized i HAD to make an account. Firstly, I am 21 years old have been diving for ONE year now. Everything started as a boredom time killer with a couple of my friends and decided to buy SNORKLE GEAR lol. I have since grown far apart from what people around here call SNORKLING as i hate the damn surface lol. In the past month i have befriend someone who has got me WAY into Freediving. I cant stop thinking about it, and it bothers me not a bit. I used to be a 1/2 pack a day smoker for maybe 5-6months(restraunt work stressed me out). I used to have athsma when i was littler and had to have a couple inhalers but have grown out of that. Ill be honest when i say im a POTHEAD, but i have been making it a point to cut back hard and have done so well actually(3days wow). When i first started diving it was with a spring suit and random crap i had bought spur of the moment kinda deal. Now i use my friends Yazbeck suit with weights and Picasso fins and well, ya big change. I have been at the beach my whole life body surfing and surfing so im used to the water to say the least. Ive been on a natural high for the past month because Ive been trying hard to up my skills in diving and have seen great results. A year ago i was smoking a cigg b4 getting in the water fkn around with my friends getting maybe 10-12ft deep and loving it. Since ive stopped smoking CIGGS i have seen hugeeeee changes in my lung power etc. My friend has me doing breathe exercises and one thing that I do personally is go on youtube and find tons of Spanish and Italian freediving videos and study out my a** on them. When the person dives, i hold my breathe as if i was next to him descending(they got me beat badly tho still =]). I can hold my breathe 3:15(ish)while sitting here and been timed at 1:30 at 25ft under as well. I know this isnt great and i just wanted to make it a point to myself more than anything that i have a while to go. I live in Palos Verdes,CA for random chance that anyone knows where it is. I live 5min walk distance to a HUGE kelp forest at a place called Lunada Bay(look up some youtube vids not too bad). We shore dive i guess but go pretty far out there and my max depth is 30ft at max but given opportunity could prob go deeper. Theres a lot of crap out there to say the least and ive grown very accustomed to petting 4-5ft horn sharks and being very aware of what im doing all the while learning every step. Theres a mean windswell hitting tomorrow here around 12ft so no diving tomorrow so i was bored and stumbled around this forum to get my fix and i have gotten that and plenty more. I just wanted to say wuddp and give u my story, however broken and badly written it was. I have endless questions and just wanted to start it here by letting u know what my story is. Im never going to stop diving, and I will never stop enjoying it. To anyone who got this far, Thanks a lot for reading my nonsense and I look forward to writing plenty more haha jk. ::dives back into the forums::
