Project: AIDA 2008 official deck of playing cards?

[CEngelbrecht]

Hello freedivers,
I'm currently in the process of designing a deck of freediving playing cards on behalf of AIDA. Please check out the progress in the thread below, and supply me with feedback:
Project: AIDA 2008 official deck of playing cards? - AIDA International

 

[John P]

That's a really cool idea.

Are you planning to sell the finnished product? - I'd buy some.

 

[CEngelbrecht]

Well, not me personally, my wish is that AIDA makes the investment and then sell them. Not so much for profit, but also so they can give free decks to the judges and instructors and whoever else bust their hind for the everyday AIDA. And otherwise at least make ends meat in the process.

 

[ADR]

Two ideas:

Theme 1:
Just make them waterproof and red yellow or white backed. This way judges will never be short of offical performance cards and can play poker while they wait for the performances to complete. Given the length of time taken for statics and dynamics this would seem a good way for them to pass the time.

Theme 2:
Make them nude! I'm sure with a little encouragement we could get a lot more nude freediving images. Nude playing cards are after all, always in fashion. I can imagine myself already swapping them like football cards....."I'll give you my ten BennyB's doing nude static for your one Tanya dynamic." - sorry Benny

regards

 

[Marwan]

would have been nice if you included yasemin and audrey mestre..
just a thought

 

[BennyB]

I should be surprised when my name is mentioned around nudity but strangely i'm not...


Marwan, Audrey was on the version I saw.

There will be millions of personal opinions on something like this. Mine is that Luc Besson shouldn't be there, as although he has made an epic (the original) freediving movie, he is also responsible for casting Rosanna Arquette in it which will take me a long time to forgive him for.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[Marwan]

that makes 2 of us benny... roseanna was the epitomy of anoxioussness there

 

[samdive]

did Deepest Bear make it into the pack? He'd be happy to pose nude : )

swap you 10 tanyas for one deepest bear???? anyone? anyone?

 

[CEngelbrecht]

would have been nice if you included yasemin and audrey mestre..
just a thought

Like already said, Audrey is in the deck, she's the 10 of Spades.
Dalkilic I totally forgot, so I've already made room for her instead of Heimo Hanke (had to chose somebody).

Does anyone in here know anything about Evelyn Patterson (Petterson/Petersson??)? 1960's female diver, two early world records in VWT. I haven't been able to track down much about her, little alone a picture.
Does anyone have a good suggestion for a replacement for this one? The theme for her group in the deck is 'female legends', and I already have Angela Bandini, Rosanna Maïorca and Patrizia Maïorca. Give me someone good from the period 1960's - 1980's. Otherwise I might have to resort to throwing in Patricia Arquette or Jessica Alba!

 

[DSV]

Hey Chris,

If you are doing this card thing to drum up a little revenue for AIDA how about scraping it and implementing a 5 euro free for every comp sanctioned by AIDA.

I personally think this would be a better use of a board members time.

DSV

 

[CEngelbrecht]

My own perspective is actually not to make AIDA a huge profit on this deck, but to provide people with 'fun'. Or at the least make enough profit in the process to sponsor next year's deck, or perhaps some official judges T-shirts, etc.

The only working ressources is my own time. I do all this voluntarily and don't want a single cent for it, so that saves a few bucks.

 

[CEngelbrecht]

Newest edition of the deck is online here:
http://www.hfk.dk/_AIDAfulldeck.jpg (2.7mb)
Any feedback on design, etc. is more than welcome.

 

[sheepeck]

Something new here? When we will be able to enjoy breath-hold poker?
Would be difficult to keep stone face for long, uh?