[News] Freediving Competition in Dubai 1 February 2007

[Observer]

Take a look in the Wisconsin, Freeze-a-pa-looza threads for a look at what real cold is like. And while you're actually doing it, just keep telling yourself you won't be cold for very long, and that you can warm yourself up afterwards with your new truck's heater. And if that doesn't work, imagine the looks on the faces of the competition when you win.

 

[Adrian]

Good luck,
Go get that prize! As soon as you are in position just close your eyes and relax -let everything go. Remember you can probably ride your contractions for a couple of minutes. So 2 min plus 2 min contractions = Range Rover rofl

 

[trux]

Do not train too long before the attempt. If the water is too cold for you, you may try the finding the right postion just once or twice at the beginning, and then calming you down and preparing for the max dry. Also be sure to check some of the many threads here speking about max static preparation - for example this one: http://forums.deeperblue.net/static-dynamic/68241-preparation-before-statics.html

Wishing you good luck and a lot of fun with your new Range Rover! :friday

 

[efattah]

An FRC static might be the way to go. It could get you 4 minutes with little problems of buoyancy....

 

[Flojt]

So who won the Range Rover ?

Not bad prices at all, but hopefully we know about this comp lill sooner so we all can take a shot at the first price, next time.

Good luck to you Sands !

 

[trux]

Hmm, Sara did not post anything yet today!? It looks like she won the Range Rover, forgot her friends at DB completely, and went for a ride with the Crown Prince of Dubai, or celebrates too heavily to be able posting the results! :friday

 

[Paul Kotik]

Hmm, Sara did not post anything yet today!? It looks like she won the Range Rover, forgot her friends at DB completely, and went for a ride with the Crown Prince of Dubai, or celebrates too heavily to be able posting the results! :friday

As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.

 

[SEDATE]

Hmm, Sara did not post anything yet today!? It looks like she won the Range Rover, forgot her friends at DB completely, and went for a ride with the Crown Prince of Dubai, or celebrates too heavily to be able posting the results! :friday

:ko :friday

 

[island_sands]

ok!!!!

here we are!!

1st prize - Nadim :friday 3.365
2nd prize - Ihmied (Nadim beat him by 2 seconds!) 3.345
3rd prize - Bruce 2.57
4th prize - island_sands! 2.33 rofl (consolation prize yet to be confirmed, they said they would call me.)

also, i was the only female participant! The guy next to me (local) was a little peeved that i beat him rofl

Here are a few pictures, see the conditions we had to breathe up in, it was freezing and very surgy, the tide went out so the rope was very slack, lots to deal with. you are right Adrian, i could have ridden my contractions out a while longer, but still haven't got over that fear of SWB, (one guy blacked out) - i am hoping with Emma's training I can get over that sense of "responsibility" if you like, and push myself further

Photos to follow just now...

 

[island_sands]

These are pictures from yesterday, Day 1.

There were about 50 participants, 1 person to each buoy (10 buoys).

 

[island_sands]

and a couple more...

 

[island_sands]

And some from today, the final!

 

[island_sands]

and more.... when nadim and i finished it stopped raining!

 

[island_sands]

and the winners.,..... well done guys!!!

The classic was, the TV interviewer asked Nadim "how long did you train for this?"
his answer
"23 years" rofl

True as, Nadim is a fantastic spearo and is very competent, dives and hunts at 30metres and has a 4.5 minute breathhold at depth - just to give you an idea how much things change when they take all our toys away (mask, fins, nose clip, wetsuit and weights....) - even the best guys struggled. So good effort was made by all.:thankyou :thankyou

 

[podge]

Sounds like you all had a lot of fun; hope your mate enjoys his Rangey.
Shame it was raining I bet if you knew you were going to get wet you wouldn’t have gone. rofl

 

[Paul Kotik]

Yes! There will be growth in the spring!

 

[island_sands]

Sounds like you all had a lot of fun; hope your mate enjoys his Rangey.
Shame it was raining I bet if you knew you were going to get wet you wouldn’t have gone. rofl

ah! we had a deal though... he is selling it discounted brand new and i get a small cut

 

[icarus pacific]

Wonderful showing!! Now you have me all self conscious for the coming weeks! :chatup

Really though, congratulations to all.

 

[Adrian]

I liked your modest swimsuit! I'm sure you must have pissed off several of the contestants just for being there. I guess part of the difficulty would also have been timing your series of breathups to the point of being ready ust when it was your turn, or did they give a time with at least half an hour warning?

Congratulations to all of you. Note that since women have smaller lungs your time was probably porportionally "longer" than maybe even the second or first place times. It would be fun to have a formula to equate mens and womens results in terms of effort, and to assign handicaps to level the playing field. But in any case, it was a great effort in difficult conditions.

 

[rbsub]

ah! we had a deal though... he is selling it discounted brand new and i get a small cut

DeeperBlue-Dubai-Gang rofl