Sweden won the Finnkampen title

[Flojt]

Anders Larsson made a good long dive in DNF, durning this weekends "Finnkampen" competition, where Sweden and Finland competed for the title Finnkampen Champion 2008.

Anders secured the title for Sweden with his, 145m DNF dive, a new swedish record, three meter longer than the old record. He ended the dive with a good and clean SP, and just smiled while waiting for the judges to hand out the white card.

Cheers
Flojt

More info at; Freediving Team Åland - Home

 

[perow1]

Thank you for a nice competition!

 

[Kimmo]

For Freediving team: thank you for a excellent competition! It was a honor to be a judge at this kind of extremely well organized competition! See you at Åland again next year in next Finnkampen :rcard

- kimmo

 

[Flojt]

... :rcard

Kimmo, I talked with you a lot during the competition, and learnt that the benefit of doubt sould go to the Athlets advantage. So my Q to you is, why the red card ?
Smiles

Cheers
D

 

[Kimmo]

Red is always my favorite color :rcard

ps. couple of pictures from the competition: Finnkampen 2008

deeeeeply,

- kimmo

 

[jome]

Thanks for a great competition. It was a bit exhausting (sta-dyn-dnf-sta-dyn iq-sprint-ice dip) for one day, but great fun. Too bad the winter flu did it's toll, but I hope the next time we can come with a bigger crew

 

[watts]

145 great dive Anders.

 

[BennyB]

It was a bit exhausting (sta-dyn-dnf-sta-dyn iq-sprint-ice dip) for one day, but great fun.

In one day? Man... must sort out the men from the boys.... and the ice dip sort out the boys from the rest of the man

Sounds like a great event, and a slowly growing trend of having fun events at freedive competitions.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[jome]

In one day? Man... must sort out the men from the boys.... and the ice dip sort out the boys from the rest of the man

There was bonus points awarded for no swimsuit in the dip in the cold sea, but unfortunately not for "biggest shrink effect", that would've been too complicated to judge...

On a serious side, Anders' swim was amazing to watch. He clearly has more in him. It's especially cool that the gains are not just from packing more etc, but his technique is just honed to perfection. I was told that he can go 25m with one cycle and has done 75m with 3 cycles

 

[osusim]

Simo, could you publish the video pleeeeeeas!
Anders, congratulations!

 

[jome]

I'm sorry I don't have any, but I saw a lot of video cameras, so I'm guessing the FTÅ guys are on that...Just might take some time.

 

[Finnfrog]

So this is the forum where everyone are and everything happens...

Well it's my first post in here and with this message I'd like to give a HUGE thanks for your Ålanders for arrangin such a great competition last weekend!!!

Have to admit that yes, it was quite challenging competition both physically and mentally (and I'm not talking about the next day condition), but VERY instructive and fun too, especially the funny games part. But if you think that the competition as a whole took about eight ours... Well, I'm very proud that I was there with all those great freediving enthusiastics! It's really something to remember!

And hats of to Anders, he's really amazing!!!

See you hopefully next year and sooner. There's still some competitions to come here in Finland

Oh, I got one video of the comp too, but I first have to ask if my friend accepts me to show it. It's about the very last part of the Funny games, the dip thing ...

 

[perow1]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVfvV9k4XDo]YouTube - Anders Larsson - 145m DNF[/ame]

the record video

http://www.freedivingteam.com/downloads/Finnkampen08-results-AIDA.pdf

the results

 

[osusim]

Thanx a lot, very impressive performance.

 

[Boppex]

I'm staggered. Can't say much, but I hope he keeps on training and envolving.
They only thing that really pointed my eye was the amount of air he took with him. There were pretty many mouthfulls he packed.

Looking forwad to getting myself in those events.

 

[azapa]

amazing, 2:30 dive time i counted, what a relaxed style, big packing and lots of weight.. congratulations...

 

[Evita]

Very nice to watch, especially the turns, congratulations Anders

 

[watts]

Hes got the stroke rate right down doesnt he. Splits 28,30,25,23,23,19.Fairly quick i think.
Doesnt look like he packs that much. Great job.

 

[Flojt]

Yep, Nathan, Anders has it kinda for "free" since he has a long history as a competitive swimmer. But even he have to work to get it all rigth when it counts the most, he's a great guy to have in the team and train with.

Anders told me after the dive that he wasn't expecting much from his dive, just went out there and had fun. When his coach "tapped" him, He feelt that he had strengt to do one more arm stroke, and then exit.
Was a great moment to watch it all take place, a fine dive to end a great competition.

Hes got the stroke rate right down doesnt he. Splits 28,30,25,23,23,19.Fairly quick i think.
Doesnt look like he packs that much. Great job.

 

[Mullins]

I enjoyed watching that swim, nice relaxed turns. I wonder why he does a dolphin kick with the arm stroke? The kick itself is quite inefficient, but it may be that he would otherwise be half-way between strokes for 25m, and it rounds him down. Didn't seem like a huge amount of packing.