I’m slowly getting to love pool training (either that or i got brainwashed). I really like dry training and i got into it very quickly when i started training last year. On dry i can push myself to states of suffering so beyond of what i can do in the pool or the sea. But…
TALENT VS EFFORT Recently I was listening to this podcast about grit and the relationship between talent and effort and which one you really need to be successful at something (short answer is both is best but if you have to pick one, effort is by far the determining factor). This resonated with me and…
A little over 1 year ago I started to do intermittent fasting. I had read a lot of literature about it and my only motivation for starting was for the health benefits and longevity (when you’ll get there you’ll know that a certain age you better start planning on how to slow down the inexorable…
Back Into The Blue Hole – Dahab – Part 5 After turning earlier on yet another dive yesterday i initially got a bit depressed, and giving up the idea of reaching 100 meters this year was a bit hard to accept. I felt so frustrated for giving up like a loser while knowing that i…
PART 4 I HAVE DONE 5 DIVES to the bottom of the blue hole in the last 10 days and it was a lot of fun, but i may be losing steam. Since it is not possible to get more depth here, I had to give myself a new goal for every new dive to…
PART 3 SOMETHING FUNNY IS HAPPENING to me recently. Before my dives I am entirely detached. I have no feelings, no fear, no anxiety, no doubts, no butterflies nor excitement. I hear the countdown and it doesn’t even feel it is directed to me. I hear “official top”, i take my last breath, I go,…
PART 2 MY QUEST FOR THE SAND isn’t over yet. I thought I had a great plan: shorten the distance between stopper and bottom weight so to get as close to the bottom as possible. My safety @ghataswaleed dropped the rope all the way and pulled up a little just to get it off the…
PART 1 Back in the Hole with some great people from @touchdown_space. I have dived with @gkreivenas many times and in many different settings and I love his energy and his team. When I came to Dahab after the competition in Sharm I realized I can finally dive to the bottom of the Blue Hole,…
PART 3 DESPITE WAVES AND SLIGHT CURRENT my 93m FIM dive felt quite nice, even though I’ll admit I don’t remember much of the ascent at all. Thanks to all my training in Tenerife i wasn’t too disturbed by the waves during my breathe up, but I really do dread the current. Even though the…
PART 2 Unlike the last 2 comps I participated in this year, I came to this comp quite pumped and self confident because my training was going very well and felt strong both mentally and physically. The first 2 days went 100% according to plan and were as easy as a breeze, and they were…
Unlike the last 2 comps I participated in this year, I came to this comp quite pumped and self confident because my training was going very well and felt strong both mentally and physically. The first 2 days went 100% according to plan and were as easy as a breeze, and they were only supposed…
PART 1 What to say?! Even though by now I have done several dives to over 90, it’s a whole different feeling having finally done it in a competition! I didn’t experienced much stress for the dive in itself, but today we had quite rough conditions; the surface was quite wild and the rope was…
IT’S ALMOST TIME for the next competition (in the neighbouring island of Lanzarote) and my coach Bub (short for Beelzebub) tells me it’s time for tapering. My non-native english speaking brain gets stuck on this strange sounding word. For me, taper are those who tape. Like with colourful electric tapes. Or duct tape. Or any…
IT HAS BEEN AGES since I took – or shared a photo of me showing my last personal best, but this one deserve a place here because I really had to work for it. Last year when I started training again after 5 years of mainly walking into forests I picked bifins and no-fins as…