Not only Covid ruined my World Championship in Roatan last august, it also left me with crippled ears. In fact, I became completely unable to do hands-free for a long time after that. Note that while I was sick, I just had fever and throat ache, but zero congestion and I was never unable to…
I have been using neckweights since I started freediving, which is looong time ago. I have always made my own neckweights and I had a system to shape them the way I wanted so that there is no weight or pressure on my throat, and I assumed that is what I was always going to…
Whenever I do a poopy dive (which usually means I turned earlier due to an equalisation SNAFU) I go home and then ignore my coach Bub messages all day, which is very hard because he won’t leave me alone until I talk to him. Since he knows me well enough, at this point he will…
So far I did 26 dives (yes I counted them) between 90 and 99m but only recently I started having problems with narcosis. In fact until last month I only had a couple of slower dives where I asked myself ” did I just have a little narcosis?” but I wasn’t 100% positive that it…