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This blog is all about myself, my training, my freediving dramas adventures and misfortunes. But here you can maybe find some insights about freediving related things that you won’t easily…
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Inside the Head of a Pool Freediver
Preamble: I wrote this quite some time ago and then never posted it, my life unravelled and I had little time and zero energy for anything else than being miserable…
Too Early to Learn Mouthfill?
Preface: Some time ago I announced a Ask Me Anything on Instagram and that I would answer in my stories, but who am I kidding…theres no way I can answer…
Static Broke Up With Me
I have a love-hate relationship with static. 3 years ago when I started training again, I had little access to a proper pool, so coach Bub from hell made me…
Buoyancy For Dummies
The importance of having a correct buoyancy is crucial for dynamic. It’s shocking to see how few people get this right; of course I expect beginners and relatively new freedivers…
Dont Visualise – Thinkalise!
VISUALISATION VS THINKALISATION Every time I talk about visualisation with a student we get trapped into a cycle of misunderstandings. I realised that is because visualisation is totally the wrong…
Expectations VS. Acceptance and Why Freediving is a MF
A couple of days ago I came to the realisation that I have to accept that I am WHERE I AM, which is not necessarily WHERE I SHOULD BE, or…
How to Mess Up Your Competition Plan Step by Step
How to Mess Up Your Competition Plan Step by Step My biggest revelation of 2024: Having a plan doesn’t help you if you don’t follow it. So I just recently…
Is Motivation a Puppy or a Cat?
I was asked to give a lecture at Deepspot (the deep pool in Poland), about a subject of my choosing and as I was flying there I opened a blank…
Why You Should Keep a Training Journal
Why You Should Keep a Journal (and why you won’t) The most underrated (and invariably ignored) tip (or 3) I give people: 1- keep a training journal, 2- always update…
About Pool Turns + Tutorial for the Perfect Turn
A few days ago I posted a video of a slow-mo DNF dynamic turn, which prompted some people to ask questions about different turn-styles and which one is the best…
Freedivers Against Doping
I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject of doping in freediving ever since the bubble burst last July, and I often get entangled in sometimes constructive and some other…
Competition Strategy For Dummies
Competition strategy for dummies Since I got back into competing 2 years ago I have had the same conversation many times over, so I’m making this little post so I…
Why you will suck at your first competition (and why that’s ok)
Yes, you will suck at your first competition. And that’s totally ok. Preamble: If I could have 1 euro for every time I heard a first timer saying “I will…
The art of Staying In the Moment
Once I told my coach Bub (short of Beelzebub) that he is the Goggings of freediving. Bub took offence, because he doesnt like Goggings, maybe because they have such different…
Finally Comp Season is Over!
Finally competition season is over and I can get my life back! (Meaning straight back to the pool !) Why did I go to yet another comp just to do…
Did I Forget How to Hands-Free?
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…
Alchemy Neckweight Review
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…
How I Finally Hit 100m CWTB & Then Blacked Out
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…
Deep Freediving and Narcosis
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…
CMAS WC 2023 – Epilogue N. 2 & How I Found Out I Can Break Too
It was my intention to write a long comprehensive epilogue of the WC 2023 series, but as always the IG word police cut me short and then I was so…
CMAS WC 2023 – Epilogue (The Mistakes I’ll Never Make Again)
EPILOGUE The most relevant thing of this whole trip for me was the amount of things I learned. Things that I learned about my own diving, competition mistakes I made…
CMAS WC 2023 – How I Messed up My Bifins Dive Too!
When I went home from my no-fins dive, I had less than 1 hour to announce for the bifins dive. I had previously decided to go with 98m, but after…
CMAS WC 2023 – My No-Fins Dive and Why I’m Not So Smart
After realising why I wasn’t happy with my medal dive I put on the big boy pants and announced to my team captain that I wouldn’t make the same mistake…
CMAS WC 2023 – How I Got a Silver Medal and then Cried All Day
After completing my 96 FIM dive that won me a nice fat silver medal at the CMAS world championship, I went home and cried for 24 hours straight. I was…
Freediving is a Life Teacher – And You Never Stop Learning
This year I turned 50 years old and I thought I know myself like the back of my hand (or like the inside of my pockets as we say in…
Roatan 2023 – Caribbean Cup Competition
It’s amazing how fast and slow the time is passing when you are in a weird bubble as if spacetime collapsed and expanded at the same time. So while I…
Roatan 2023 – Training for World Championship
After a couple of amazing deep dives, COVID struck the Roatan freediving community and I was one of the lucky ones to get infected, which caused me to lose a…
Pool Training Is Not So Bad!
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…
Talent Vs Effort in Freediving
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…
Intermittent Fasting & Freediving
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…
Back Into The Blue Hole – Dahab – Part 5
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…
Back Into The Blue Hole – Dahab – Part 4
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…
Back Into The Blue Hole – Dahab – Part 3
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.…
Back Into The Blue Hole – Dahab – Part 2
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…
Back Into The Blue Hole – Dahab – Part 1
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…
Freediving World Cup Competition – Oct 22 – Part 3
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…
Freediving World Cup Competition – Oct 2022 – Part 2
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…
Freediving World Cup Competition – Part 1
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…
Freediving World Cup Competition – October 2022 – Part 1
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…
Tapering = How to Kill Time Before a Freediving Competition
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…
Training Update and PB Alert!
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…