Just started freediving

[flying_spanner]

Nice work on your progress.

I did a course over here in New Zealand last November. I swam most nights for a couple of months before the course and could manage a single 30m length of the pool without fins before the course but not alot more.

during the course I set my PB static of 4min 20. I managed a deepest dive for the weekend of 17m, and I forget how long my best dynamic was.


Now I can swim 90m dynamic with fins and I generally repeat that 2 or three times during an evening training session. I also can happily spend a good minute or so on the bottom collecting Scallops/Abalone/spearing fish that I wouldn't have managed 9 months ago.

I wouldn't say I'm any fitter than I was November last year, Just more "comfortable" under water.

What I'm trying to say is "keep up the great work you will look back in a years time and wonder why it seemed so difficult"

 

[miguel-van]

Nice to see all of you progress and sharing your experiences.

For myself I will have to wait 5 weeks before getting back in the water since I broke my wrist last week. Have to stick to dry training...

Have fun and stay safe.
Miguèl

 

[Vanleh]

Thanks for the positive responses!!

In 2 weeks we will have our finale exames in the pool. First static and then dynamic. I am already looking forward to it. This week I completed my theoratical exam without any big problems. The only thing that was really difficult was the language. Because I am Dutch it was difficult to understand all the questions / answers in Italian (I can speak it quite well but the words which were used were very difficult). In the end I only had 5 mistakes out of 50 questions.

I hope to adchieve some new records during the pratical exames. My goals are 3 minutes in static and 65 meters in dynamic.

Take care everybody!!

 

[jay cluskey]

vanleh good luck with exams
keep it up stay in touch
take care stay safe