Monster new Kiwi records

[KatFish]

This weekend the Lazy Seal Freediving Club is hosting another Wellington Winter Champs here in New Zealand. Day one has just finished with 5 new impressive national records set.

Guy Brew started off the day with a NZ record in static: 9 mins 3s. We believe this is the longest breath hold ever in competition! His old record was 8 min 47s.

Dave Mullins followed this up with a 232m dynamic without fins, pushing out his world record by 19m.

The three girls all set new national records too:

Kathryn McPhee furthered her WR DNF performance by 1m to 152m.

Ruth Griffin from Great Brittain pushed out the DYN record to 164m.

Suzy Osler (who you may remember as Suzy Kensington) made an impressive come back with a new NZ record in DYN with 188m, launching herself back into the competitive freediving scene with relative ease.

The competition does not have world record status, so all are just national records.

Congrats to all the new divers who had a go and did some impressive personal bests too, and those in our recreation grade.

Full results and tomorrow's draw will be posted on www.lazyseal.co.nz this evening.

 

[azapa]

Gosh Kat, quite a little comp you had there! So when are the Kiwi's going to challenge the Chilean national team?

Amazing to see two (unoficial) WR's too, well done to you and big Dave.

 

[BennyB]

Holy crap, what huge results! What the hell are you lot eating over there???

Extra congrats to Suzy as well - amazing seeing as she's barely been in the pool for years!!

Cheers,
Ben

 

[rxcnc2]

Holy crap, what huge results! What the hell are you lot eating over there???

Marmite I suppose?


Wow, unbelievable! And Dave is really not going to Aarhus?

 

[BennyB]

Marmite I suppose?

Hmm... well there goes my chances of being a superfreediver then :yack

 

[KatFish]

Holy crap, what huge results! What the hell are you lot eating over there???

Extra congrats to Suzy as well - amazing seeing as she's barely been in the pool for years!!

Cheers,
Ben

Not pies. Though we make good ones.

Try venison, red wine & chocolate cake - yummy!!!!

 

[Tony Babowicz]

Big,Big respect to you all.

 

[trux]

Oh my Gosh! You exaggerate. I am going to switch to a pure kiwi diet until the WC. And will have to buy some more swim caps from you!

Its a pity Dave does not come to Denmark - would be great seeing him in this form!

Congrats all! :friday :friday :friday :friday :friday

 

[picasso]

Hi Kathrin and others, is there any video available?

 

[B-J]

What was Dave`s divetime?

 

[Kars]

Congratulations, these are really big results, especially considering you're such a small team.
I wonder if Tom Sietas is up to the Dave Mullins 232m new record.
Maybe Dave would like to try for the big 250 next year? - thought 200m DNF was already unbelievable!

All the other participants enjoy your efforts, you're pioneering new area's!

I'm also very happy for Suzy Osler, whom I was pleased to meet in Rennes Zwitserland at the WC in 2005

With the reported national championships results it looks like it's going to be an exiting WC, I hope I can be there too!

Love, Courage and Water,

Kars

 

[KatFish]

Day two saw a few more records:

One of our new divers Alisdair Eddie from South Africa set the first record of the day with a 99m DNF (to be confirmed as we're not sure of the RSA records).

Kathryn took back her DYN record with 191m. It's nice to have some competition as motivation!!!!

Other highlights were Guy Brew's 226m DYN and Ruth Griffin's 109m DNF (unfortunately she pulled up on the side at the end and got a penalty otherwaise it would have been a GBR record too).

Our rec grade also pulled out some outstanding performances:
Darrell Cottle 57m
Joy Cottle 58m
Sam Hauwaho 105m
Graham MacKereth (DNF) 81m

We think they did some pretty impressive dives and should join us in the competition next time!!!

 

[BennyB]

Congratulations to all, some amazing performances over the weekend.

That's it, i'm convinced... going to bake a cake, grab some nice shiraz and find some venison somewhere...

 

[KatFish]

Looking forward to the Scandinavian reindeer. They'd better watch out - the Kiwis are coming en masse... I reckon a bit of kangaroo would work a treat too. Yum.

 

[Mullins]

What was Dave`s divetime?

Not sure BJ, but probably somewhere around 4:30.

 

[hudasmt]

Congratulations!!! Nice competition you are having there!!! Any videos?

 

[rxcnc2]

Day two saw a few more records:
One of our new divers Alisdair Eddie from South Africa set the first record of the day with a 99m DNF (to be confirmed as we're not sure of the RSA records).

Bevan Dewar (RSA) showed me a video some years ago in which he was doing 150m DNF, not sure it was validated as record... he also mentioned that the south-african AIDA at the time was not so well organized.

Again congratulations to you all! And waiting for videos...

 

[KatFish]

Yes, there are videos. When I get time I'll consider setting up a Lazy Seal You-Tube account for interesting performances - might not be until September though sorry, or you can bug me to watch them in Denmark...

 

[f3dive]

Wow, some amazing results there eveyone. you all just keep getting better and better. i guess the lousy weather is forcing you all indoors to train more
Best wishes in Denmark...some corporate should be getting onto you Dave...

 

[chrismar]

For those interested, the result list is up on the lazy seals website. I managed to duff up my surfacing on the first day, but it made for good training for the WCs. All the results were very impressive; Simon & Alisdair are reasonably new divers and Marcus had been sick and not training for two months prior. Phil was also unfortunate to miss his GBR record, as he did more than the required distance both days but failed to surface cleanly. Michael was also in his first ever competition, so 6:00 is not a bad effort

Thanks to the judges & organisers for all their hard work!