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 my little incident I didnt know if it was such a good idea. Despite telling myself that I wouldn’t base my announcement on other freedivers…
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 twice and that I would announce 98 m on the bifins day. I easily did close to that in training and my bifins depths have…
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 so upset with myself for not having announced more and losing the highest place on the podium. I wanted to be on the safe side…
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 italian), until I come to a mosquitoes infested island in the Caribbean on a medal hunt, only to realize I dont know this person I’m…
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 feel that I literally do nothing all day, at the same time days are passing very fast and at the end of each day I…
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 whole week of training and at the end of it I found myself barely able to hold my breath, with only 24 hours left to…
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 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…