Writing the freediver Bible

[ripperu]

Who's gonna write it?

Anyone?

I can't wait!

 

[subaquaticus]

Hi guys and girls,

Stefan did not "write" the manual, but collected texts from other people (mainly via internet). Stefan asked every author for permission (quite a tedious task, I can imagine...)

I like the idea of writing a "freediving bible". One should, however, check the literature that's already there. Otherwise the text could turn out as a bad copy of much better originals...

I just had a look at my freediving book shelf and those are the books, that I would consider very worth reading (in the order of "worthiness"):

1. Corso di Apnea, Umberto Pelizzari and Stefano Tovaglieri
This is the best "overall" freediving book. I miss only: a chapter on monofins, another on packing and perhaps a little more details on freediving physiology. (Unfortunately written in Italian. Maybe an English edition will follow).

2. Homo Delphinus - the Dolphin within Man, Jacques Mayol
You won't learn anything new on freediving technique, but the history is covered quite well.

3. L'Apnée-Glisse en Monopalme, Francis Fèvre
Best book on dynamic apnea with monofin. (Unfortunately written in French).

4. La Plongée en Apnée, Jacques H. Corriol
Only book I know that deals exclusivly with freediving physiology. The book was published in 1996 and is thus already a bit outdated in some aspects. (Unfortunately written in French).

5. Guida all'immersione in apnea, Stefano Makula
Published 1987, therefore not up-to-date. (Unfortunately written in Italian).

And of course one should include Eric Fattah to publish a few preliminary pages of his "freediving encyclopedia"

Cheers
Uli

I am very interested in this project ! I read books 3 and 4 on your list... I am ordering now the manual of freediving by Pelizzari...

 

[subaquaticus]

I've just launched a Wiki where everyone can help out to create THE freediver manual .

It's located at manual.freedivingspots.net and VERY EMPTY at the moment, but with everybody's help we can quickly turn this into the best resource available

Come have a look and help out writing part of the manual!!!

You had an excellent initiative ! By a coïncidence, I discovered yesterday an article dedicated to freediving...

By the way I am looking for training procedures for hypoxic series in dynamic apnea...

 

[subaquaticus]

3. L'Apnée-Glisse en Monopalme, Francis Fèvre
Best book on dynamic apnea with monofin. (Unfortunately written in French).

some precisions on this book I know very well...
First it is not exclusively dedicated to monofin... it describes very precisely and gives training procedures for hypercapnis series...

this book is oriented towards 16 X 50 m...

but not a word on static apnea and not a word on hypoxic series...

 

[pstruhos]

what happens with bible?
is there any wiki working?

 

[jvoets]

I've removed the Wiki
It turned out to be a great place for spammers
Anyone who wanted to find out where to gamble online, where to buy Viagra and that kind of shit could have found it in the wiki.
There weren't to many serious contributors after all.

Maybe this should be set up on the deeperblue server, with much more drive from the top freedivers present on these forums....

 

[Stephan Whelan]

We'd gladly help host this if the community wants it.

 

[samdive]

I think Umberto already wrote it - if you want a freedive bible - get a copy of his manual, its in English now!

we will be working on the AIDA Course manuals over the next year or so but in the meantime, his book is the best around

Sam

 

[pstruhos]

We'd gladly help host this if the community wants it.

I think wiki is good idea. But it must have restricted access for only registered users to block spammers.