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[News] William Trubridge announces "Project Hector"
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101m in CNF is huge ,this is more valuable than 124 CWT or 120 FIM. sorry Herbert
Come on radek ! .. all are impressive and valuable ..
Congrats Will !!! .. 101 m .. wow .. wow .. wow ..
.. by the way I prefer odd numbers .. 101 looks much better in my opinion than 100 .. 
In my eyes the CNF discipline is the purest and the most difficult one too, but on the other hand, when I calculate the averages of the 35000 performances in the ranking database, and extrapolate the 101 CNF by the ratio of the CWT/CNF averages, then I get 119 meters CWT. Now, there are different factors, and if I use different methods I'd get slightly different results, but I'd tell that both records correspond rather well, both are very respectuos, and that Herbert does not need to be ashamed of the 124 meters in CWT
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There is no need move the discussion to a divisive exchange of words. The domination game of "who is right" only creates loosers.
All world records are results of some very hard and dedicated work. We may differ on the style in which it was done, the athlete's philosophy, but the person did manage.
I remember very well in the beginning of this discipline, the incredible video of Topi Lintukangas doing 60m, 60m! without fins! At that time I had only tried 25, and knowing the feeling of being very negative buoyant at the plate, making a swim stroke and seeing the rope remaining in place (!) made his feat even more incredible!
Other video was the one where I saw Martin Stepanec in his training crashing into the reef at about - 70m (!) flipping around, rubbing his head, and swimming up, what a cool mind! (cannot find the video )
William's 82 and 88 video's are also extremely cool, the close ups of him falling down in this surreal space, flying and falling by, correcting his trajectory with his feet, and the perfect rhythmic technique on the way up, despite the heavy muscles. The surfacing usually right on his personal limits, showing to me that he did not hold back in his depth announcement but just went to try for his personal best.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF4PN8-2YSk&feature=related"]YouTube - Freediving World Record no fins 88m (288ft)[/ame]
The 100 is a very nice number, and I would be very pleased to touch that one day in any discipline, and I will for sure think about those legends that did the 100 in their unique way.
Love, Courage and water,
Kars
All world records are results of some very hard and dedicated work. We may differ on the style in which it was done, the athlete's philosophy, but the person did manage.
I remember very well in the beginning of this discipline, the incredible video of Topi Lintukangas doing 60m, 60m! without fins! At that time I had only tried 25, and knowing the feeling of being very negative buoyant at the plate, making a swim stroke and seeing the rope remaining in place (!) made his feat even more incredible!
Other video was the one where I saw Martin Stepanec in his training crashing into the reef at about - 70m (!) flipping around, rubbing his head, and swimming up, what a cool mind! (cannot find the video
)William's 82 and 88 video's are also extremely cool, the close ups of him falling down in this surreal space, flying and falling by, correcting his trajectory with his feet, and the perfect rhythmic technique on the way up, despite the heavy muscles. The surfacing usually right on his personal limits, showing to me that he did not hold back in his depth announcement but just went to try for his personal best.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF4PN8-2YSk&feature=related"]YouTube - Freediving World Record no fins 88m (288ft)[/ame]
The 100 is a very nice number, and I would be very pleased to touch that one day in any discipline, and I will for sure think about those legends that did the 100 in their unique way.
Love, Courage and water,
Kars
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Hey Eric,
Nikki writes this on her facebook page:
"My WR attempts have been postponed to March 2011 due to a sinus condition requiring surgery that came to head 8 days ago and has since had me out of the wate. Looking forward to launching into 2011 with a nice new set of equalization tools ;-)"
that was on thursday december 16th.
Nikki writes this on her facebook page:
"My WR attempts have been postponed to March 2011 due to a sinus condition requiring surgery that came to head 8 days ago and has since had me out of the wate. Looking forward to launching into 2011 with a nice new set of equalization tools ;-)"
that was on thursday december 16th.
a nice news video from Will's homeland:
Freediver sees bottom and top of his sport (2:04) | Breaking & Daily News, Sport & Weather | TV ONE, TV2 | TVNZ
kp
Freediver sees bottom and top of his sport (2:04) | Breaking & Daily News, Sport & Weather | TV ONE, TV2 | TVNZ
kp
And a terrific video created by Matt Brown of the dive:
[ame="http://www.vimeo.com/18213129"]The hectometer freedive on Vimeo[/ame]
kp
[ame="http://www.vimeo.com/18213129"]The hectometer freedive on Vimeo[/ame]
kp
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Guys, his performance is awesome! This is undisputable but...
I have the impression that the surface protocol is of his first attempt at -100 (looks to me a little sambing on the "ok") and it is a sunny day whilst after white card and in the next scene after the "ok" it is again a cloudy day!!
Looks like that the video is a mix of scenes of the two dives at -100 and -101 on different days (sunny and cloudy).
Am I wrong?
This doesnt affect his achievement offcourse!
I have the impression that the surface protocol is of his first attempt at -100 (looks to me a little sambing on the "ok") and it is a sunny day whilst after white card and in the next scene after the "ok" it is again a cloudy day!!
Looks like that the video is a mix of scenes of the two dives at -100 and -101 on different days (sunny and cloudy).
Am I wrong?
This doesnt affect his achievement offcourse!
No, this is common feeling. We should differentiate artistic projects like the "Free Fall" and recording of WR attempts.
You guys are too sharp! It's true that we used surface footage from both dives - we wanted to use the better-looking SP from the 101m dive, but the more exuberant celebration from the 100m dive!
However none of the footage is re-enacted - it was all filmed during one or other of the successful 100m+ dives.
However none of the footage is re-enacted - it was all filmed during one or other of the successful 100m+ dives.
William, dont you ever think that we put our comments meanly in bad faith.
JUST DONT!
As freedivers our observative skills are very trained after looking so many attempts, competitions, experimental, training videos or whatever related to freediving on youtube channels books etc. Observing details on movements and style of elite freedivers is just helping us to train our mind and body in new directions. I dont know about others, but this is the way I feel and I always take the most out of every scene I see on such attempts or achievement. I'm not just a viewer but an observer too.
Your achievement is just out of question and doubts. It is just F...... unbelievable and I'm watching those videos over and over again to make my brain believe...
I'm a supporter of freediving and not a customer.
I wish you and your family and all the member of freediving community have a very great 2011 with lots of records, success and achievements in personal life!
Happy new year!
JUST DONT!
As freedivers our observative skills are very trained after looking so many attempts, competitions, experimental, training videos or whatever related to freediving on youtube channels books etc. Observing details on movements and style of elite freedivers is just helping us to train our mind and body in new directions. I dont know about others, but this is the way I feel and I always take the most out of every scene I see on such attempts or achievement. I'm not just a viewer but an observer too.
Your achievement is just out of question and doubts. It is just F...... unbelievable and I'm watching those videos over and over again to make my brain believe...
I'm a supporter of freediving and not a customer.
I wish you and your family and all the member of freediving community have a very great 2011 with lots of records, success and achievements in personal life!
Happy new year!
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