The benefits of AIDA
Dear readers of this forum
I had to open a new tread because of two reasons:
First one, that this is the only way to give a kind of summarised answer/information concerning all the posts running around on different parts of this forum, but having nearly the same topic.
I took me some time to surf around on DB, checking out what’s going on here.
I could find a lot of interesting and positive things about scuba diving, spearfishing and...
...freediving.
But no positive tread about AIDA International and their good work.
(except a mistake of myself and I could not find it)
Don’t get me wrong, in many answer posts you can find positive statements, but no own tread,
which is the second reason why I opened this one.
There are so many positive things done by AIDA but here on this forum we have a strong negative opinion pool
with an AIDA negative opinion leader – Eric Fattah, who likes to play around with rumours.
Instead of you Eric, I personally work only with facts, and I am very carefully with rumours.
So lets work on some FACTS.
FACT is that at Mifsud’s attempt you said the 20-second rule failed.
In end of 2002 at Carlos Coste attempt you did hardly complain why AIDA accepts a world record without this 20-second rule.
(for info: in 2002 this rule was in force for competitions only, since 2003 for record attempts too, and Eric please don’t think this 2003 implantation was done because you complained)
FACT is that you wrote that it is possible to train into the “gray-zone” of LMC without having the LMC, or even to train to hide the LMC.
This guided a lot of athletes to try this and their performances have been disqualified.
As result many of them are now angry with AIDA, what is completely ridiculous.
Thanks a lot for this nice tip...
FACT is that you wrote wild speculations about the Italians. I will never forget the answer mail to you of Mr. Tovaglieri, press responsible of Apnea Academy, including the following sentence:
I never read so many lies at the same time in the same letter......
I just picked out some, but there are many other points I could quote here, but I think this have been really enough examples.
Many of your posts have some small part of truth and the rest is added with your personal speculations and theories and then presented as this kind of „news“.
You always speculate in your mails that people maybe do not know about facts, rules and backgrounds to put your contra productive stuff on them. This works especially fine with newcomers, so that their first approach to AIDA and freediving is disturbed.
In one of your last posts you state I hate you.
Who did tell you this? I never said something like this.
This is exactly your typical way to try to manipulate people opinions.
In the same sentence you mention why I hate you, concerning the time when I trained Herbert, but keeping the secret what the reason is. Again you try to manipulate....
But to light up the situation. The concerning case of last year was your “story” of Tanya’s sled attempt.
(or do you think the single unrequested mail you wrote Herbert about equalisation was the reason)
Even after I explained to you what is on the video, you stayed on your opinion what there has to be on the video.
Fact is that I viewed the original video and you did not.
But as always you don’t care and just go on with your stories.
Probably you also think if you don’t receive any answer to a mail anymore that you “won” some point or topic
Don’t you realise that most people are just not interested anymore to continue answering or listening to you?
There is also another important point to separate, which is always mixed up.
Recreational and competitive freediving.
But to discuss this also in this post would be beyond the limits.
So I will post this one on AIDA International forum as soon as it is online.
As I stated already in one of my earlier replies I know that it is clear that everybody is hungry for news, but if is something spread, the facts please.
About the lack of information which was quoted in several different posts.
AIDA International has several official mailing Lists where everybody can find a lot of information’s and serious requests are always answered by well-informed AIDA members.
Biggest one is AIDA Chat list (Chat_AIDA@yahoogroups.com)
On the Liste AIDA you will receive all public announcements (about the last records for example)
On the Athletes list mostly regulations stuff and so on is discussed (this list is closed for competitors only)
But why do I write this post.
I hope that I could “open the eyes” for some people, especially newcomers, to join AIDA family.
You can meet us at one of the competitions, contact one of our national AIDA’s or visit our fact based website.
www.aida-international.org
All board members are active freedivers, so they know about realities.
Eric you posted you try to help AIDA since 1999.
Are you trying to joke?
You did leave AIDA 2000 and went to FREE organisation.
Are just lost somewhere in time and space?
The benefits of AIDA.
Hmmm, probably for everybody something different.
For me: Today I can go to an AIDA competition wherever it is hold on this planet.
Everywhere I will have the same rules, and if I have done a valid performance, this performance is comparable all over the world.
This was also the main reason why AIDA was founded 1992. To homologate records.
In the meantime AIDA is active in many other parts of freediving too.
To finish this post.
Of course Eric and his fan club will try to distort the facts I wrote, but I really don’t care.
One more time: Eric, if you want to help the development of freediving, stay far away from AIDA activities.
As I prefer to put my time in constructive things, instead to continue to handle useless mails, you are lucky,
I will not answer this topic anymore.
(I just finished work on ***Freediver education video, last part, ****video has to be done now)
Dieter Baumann
Austria
AIDA A Judge
AIDA Judge Instructor
AIDA **** Freediver Instructor
founder member AIDA Austria
ApneaPlanet Freediving school
www.ApneaPlanet.com
Dear readers of this forum
I had to open a new tread because of two reasons:
First one, that this is the only way to give a kind of summarised answer/information concerning all the posts running around on different parts of this forum, but having nearly the same topic.
I took me some time to surf around on DB, checking out what’s going on here.
I could find a lot of interesting and positive things about scuba diving, spearfishing and...
...freediving.
But no positive tread about AIDA International and their good work.
(except a mistake of myself and I could not find it)
Don’t get me wrong, in many answer posts you can find positive statements, but no own tread,
which is the second reason why I opened this one.
There are so many positive things done by AIDA but here on this forum we have a strong negative opinion pool
with an AIDA negative opinion leader – Eric Fattah, who likes to play around with rumours.
Instead of you Eric, I personally work only with facts, and I am very carefully with rumours.
So lets work on some FACTS.
FACT is that at Mifsud’s attempt you said the 20-second rule failed.
In end of 2002 at Carlos Coste attempt you did hardly complain why AIDA accepts a world record without this 20-second rule.
(for info: in 2002 this rule was in force for competitions only, since 2003 for record attempts too, and Eric please don’t think this 2003 implantation was done because you complained)
FACT is that you wrote that it is possible to train into the “gray-zone” of LMC without having the LMC, or even to train to hide the LMC.
This guided a lot of athletes to try this and their performances have been disqualified.
As result many of them are now angry with AIDA, what is completely ridiculous.
Thanks a lot for this nice tip...
FACT is that you wrote wild speculations about the Italians. I will never forget the answer mail to you of Mr. Tovaglieri, press responsible of Apnea Academy, including the following sentence:
I never read so many lies at the same time in the same letter......
I just picked out some, but there are many other points I could quote here, but I think this have been really enough examples.
Many of your posts have some small part of truth and the rest is added with your personal speculations and theories and then presented as this kind of „news“.
You always speculate in your mails that people maybe do not know about facts, rules and backgrounds to put your contra productive stuff on them. This works especially fine with newcomers, so that their first approach to AIDA and freediving is disturbed.
In one of your last posts you state I hate you.
Who did tell you this? I never said something like this.
This is exactly your typical way to try to manipulate people opinions.
In the same sentence you mention why I hate you, concerning the time when I trained Herbert, but keeping the secret what the reason is. Again you try to manipulate....
But to light up the situation. The concerning case of last year was your “story” of Tanya’s sled attempt.
(or do you think the single unrequested mail you wrote Herbert about equalisation was the reason)
Even after I explained to you what is on the video, you stayed on your opinion what there has to be on the video.
Fact is that I viewed the original video and you did not.
But as always you don’t care and just go on with your stories.
Probably you also think if you don’t receive any answer to a mail anymore that you “won” some point or topic
Don’t you realise that most people are just not interested anymore to continue answering or listening to you?
There is also another important point to separate, which is always mixed up.
Recreational and competitive freediving.
But to discuss this also in this post would be beyond the limits.
So I will post this one on AIDA International forum as soon as it is online.
As I stated already in one of my earlier replies I know that it is clear that everybody is hungry for news, but if is something spread, the facts please.
About the lack of information which was quoted in several different posts.
AIDA International has several official mailing Lists where everybody can find a lot of information’s and serious requests are always answered by well-informed AIDA members.
Biggest one is AIDA Chat list (Chat_AIDA@yahoogroups.com)
On the Liste AIDA you will receive all public announcements (about the last records for example)
On the Athletes list mostly regulations stuff and so on is discussed (this list is closed for competitors only)
But why do I write this post.
I hope that I could “open the eyes” for some people, especially newcomers, to join AIDA family.
You can meet us at one of the competitions, contact one of our national AIDA’s or visit our fact based website.
www.aida-international.org
All board members are active freedivers, so they know about realities.
Eric you posted you try to help AIDA since 1999.
Are you trying to joke?
You did leave AIDA 2000 and went to FREE organisation.
Are just lost somewhere in time and space?
The benefits of AIDA.
Hmmm, probably for everybody something different.
For me: Today I can go to an AIDA competition wherever it is hold on this planet.
Everywhere I will have the same rules, and if I have done a valid performance, this performance is comparable all over the world.
This was also the main reason why AIDA was founded 1992. To homologate records.
In the meantime AIDA is active in many other parts of freediving too.
To finish this post.
Of course Eric and his fan club will try to distort the facts I wrote, but I really don’t care.
One more time: Eric, if you want to help the development of freediving, stay far away from AIDA activities.
As I prefer to put my time in constructive things, instead to continue to handle useless mails, you are lucky,
I will not answer this topic anymore.
(I just finished work on ***Freediver education video, last part, ****video has to be done now)
Dieter Baumann
Austria
AIDA A Judge
AIDA Judge Instructor
AIDA **** Freediver Instructor
founder member AIDA Austria
ApneaPlanet Freediving school
www.ApneaPlanet.com