Al,but to 'protect' their athletes "even from themselves"
Thanks for the effort you have put into this. I know you have little to gain and some to lose. CMAS could learn a real lesson on electing people capable of presenting their views to others without insulting them and turning them into enemies. You would be a good candidate. If they really are a democratic organization maybe they will do better in their next elections.
While your discussing with CMAS leaders and athletes would you ask them about the apparent inconsistency of limiting the depth of their apnea divers, but allowing their spearos unlimited depth? Maybe something has changed that I don’t know about, we could use some more international competitive spearos on the board, but from what I have heard, the best spearos do some incredible depths, way beyond 15 meters in the World Spearfishing Championships.
I have heard that some of the nations’ spearos ability to dive deep to get to virgin areas is one reason the U.S.A. has not done well in the World Spearfishing Championships. This is also a reason many spearos have become more interested in learning from the AIDA and FREE cb athletes. They need deep diving skills to compete internationally.
If CMAS exclusion reason really is to "'protect' their athletes "even from themselves"” and not to eliminate other freediving organizations then why are they not apply their concern of depth to spearfishing too?
Also, since freedivers have proven many scientist wrong over the years and scientist seem to change their minds and theories, if jb is showed in time to be no safer than cb when measured with actual statistics of injury, etc., are they going to change the rules to allow athletes to compete in other organization’s meet that offer cb?
Thanks again,
don