Re : Where to find the freediving girls?
PoseidonSv said:
They seem to be an endangered species, what can be done to make more females realize it is not a macho thing only suitable for men.
Very interesting question... According to some shrinks, what would be the main motivation for a man to freedive is a strong and unconscious desire to go back into the womb of his mother ! A bit deterring for the vast majority of normally constituted adult women...
I was in Monaco on the occasion of the IWC last July and I met there with a Swedish freediving medicine student... He told me that some studies had been made in Sweden about the psychological profile of freedivers...
To make it short, there seems to be a higher proportion of "crazy" or "bizarre" or "weirdos" people in freediving than in other activities...
If you practice roller skating for example (which also may be a highly competitive activity) you are forced to interact with your fellows, to touch them, to avoid them...
If you run a marathon in roller skating, you are forced to skate in "clusters"...
Roller skating fosters a normal social interaction...
If you freedive - especially deep dive - you try to go deep into yourself, to forget anything else... which can in extreme cases cut you from the rest of the world...
It is exactly what happens in the famous movie "The Big Blue" : the guy leaves her spouse on the wedding night to play around with a dolphin !
Have you ever tried to execute a static training table while in bed besides your beloved ?
High probability she calls for psychiatric first aid... or at least that such behaviour strongly gets on her nerves...