[News] New Australian Static Apnea Record

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Sydney Freediver Ant Judge broke the Australian Record of Static Apnea with a 7'7' breathhold. the judges were AIDA E level Judges Ant Williams (NZ) and Jasmine Bastow to verify the performance.Information and story on Sydney Freedivers website....

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[bite ya]

What an amazing hold by Ant Judge, well done...BennyB could have some competition? Naaaaaa!

 

[sayNO2o2]

thanks bite ya. was stoked to get the record!

 

[bite ya]

No problem my friend. How did it feel? When did contractions started etc? You must feel on top of the world.
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[Tony Babowicz]

Big congratulations from Florida.!!! Way to go.

 

[Kars]

Nice one Ant! it's a really nice number!
What are the names of the people that may attempt to break your record?

Love, Courage and Water,

Kars

 

[sayNO2o2]

to tell the truth bite ya it was one of the worst 7min statics i have ever done. having all the cameras made me a bit nervous. where i normally spend my breath up just trying to drop my heart rate it would just not drop. and it seemed the longer i sat there the more i thought about it and the worse it got so i just went for it.

the 1st few mins were bad! it was the fastest i have ever had my h/r in any static. and the camera flashes really put me off. i really wanted to just come up.
but then i got my response and i felt my h/r drop as well as my 1st contraction (about 2 min in. bit early) but i figured contractions were better than a racing h/r.

it was a hard static where i didnt feel relaxed at all but had my training buddy/ coach pooshkie talking me though it.

at 6min i felt committed and comfortable with the static. my target time was 7:06 so i waited for pooshkie tell me. i came up, sucked in a few good breaths and could not stop the smile from taking over my face. i waited for Ant williams to call time and showed me the white card.

i had held the record back in 2002 with 6:02 in the 1st time i had done a comp. so i look at this as my come back to the sport.

KARS the people that could have a shot at his record are of course the old record holder Wal Styne. but freediving in OZ has really changed in the last year with the forming of the club sydney freedivers. i know a few ppl just in my club that could hit this time in the near futrue, guys like pooshkie, and even my dad "judge" are getting big times.

its going to be a big year for freediving in OZ!
thanks every one.

ant:friday

 

[Narsil]

Great suff Ant!

Doesn't matter how you do it ultimately - GJ for pushing through. Shows that you have plenty left for next time round.

Cheers and congrats,
Guy

 

[BennyB]

That's it Ant, you'll always be a Kiwi in my eyes now

Well done, that's a fantastic static!

April has certainly been a busy month for Aussie freedivers...

Cheers,
Ben

 

[chrismar]

I'm liking how we get to claim the Aussies as our own when they do well

Good work, Ant! Hope to see you in the water again soon!

 

[sayNO2o2]

I'm liking how we get to claim the Aussies as our own when they do well

Good work, Ant! Hope to see you in the water again soon!

haha no we are still trying to claim Ant Williams as ours!

btw cant wait to have aust V.z kiwis pool comp! it will be an invite comp and Dave is NOT INVITED! LOL

THANKS GUYS!

 

[chrismar]

haha no we are still trying to claim Ant Williams as ours!

btw cant wait to have aust V.z kiwis pool comp! it will be an invite comp and Dave is NOT INVITED! LOL

THANKS GUYS!

You can't have more than one Ant; there's a quota! If you like, we can unoffically rename our July comp the Wellington Aussie-Bashing Champs...

 

[sayNO2o2]

You can't have more than one Ant; there's a quota! If you like, we can unoffically rename our July comp the Wellington Aussie-Bashing Champs...

funny you say that... some nights we have 3 ants training in the one pool!

well the president of our club this year (my dad Judge) will be bang up for it.... he is one of you!

 

[seamus_murray]

you must be ecstatic rofl

well done:friday

 

[Judge]

It was great the local Daily Newspaper ran with the story even giving Ant a mug shot on the front page.

 

[Kars]

Hi Judge, thanks for posting the article, but can it please be a bit higher resolution? I can almost read the middle part, and reading the lower lines this so called "expert" medical director quotes are so ignorant, actually dumbed down it makes me think how low the editor must think of his readers.

I love the monofin photo!

Thanks!

Kars

 

[Bill]

Here it is almost noon and no rumors or stories yet so I'd better start one.
Two young divers from Sydney showed up last week and spent a few days getting used to the hot water. At last report, one new PB and plans for more attempts. Look out Wal!

 

[Judge]

This should make it possible to read.

The "expert of 25 years" obviously is 25 years out of date and I have written to the editor with a polite letter to that effect. However the positives of the article far out weigh the negatives and the people we want to contact to expand the sport are the ones that will fire up when they read the article on Ant's attitude and success.

The other huge positive is that the Manly Daily has giant circulation and so we have contacted a huge audience and told them that Sydney Freedivers are here in Sydney and are successful. That is the type of message we need in Australia.

Judge

 

[Kars]

Thanks Ant!

Maybe my standards are to high these days demanding accurate reporting, but you're smile and life transformation are very positive things derived from your new passion of freediving, I'm sure the website's traffic must have gone up!

Maybe publish on your Sydney Freedivers website a little follow up to the published article, I'm sure you had much more to say in even more vivid details, adding some depth, and you can 'correct' a few important editor mistakes too. A few more pictures and put a nice short 'sell-the-club-video' et voila!

I wish you many nice new freediving club members!

Thanks again for posting!

Kars

 

[Judge]

Thanks Ant!

Kars, Ant is my son.

On Deeper Blue his id is SayNo2O2.

He was president of Sydney Freedivers last year but he needed to concentrate on his training this year so, I took up the mantle (through club elections of course) . So far his training is moving fine with his static record and today I found out he PBed in training at Hawaii and dived 70m.

Judge