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 all day for several months. That is why I stopped distributing my wisdom via this blog and in my Instagram posts; my training did continue…
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 a question in one short sentence. SO I told myself that I’d answer on a regular post, and would you know it, not even 2200…
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 WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO BE. In fact I’ve been struggling with training for about 2 months now, due to a combination of factors (some…
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 come back from Poland, where I went to take part to the Deepspot Challenge. They should call it “This challenge is a bitch” so that…
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 times absurd conversations with different people about the subject. The most common (and dumb) argument I encountered is “Who is to say what’s doping and…
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 styles, but if you go beyond the surface and how they present, they have so much in common. Bub is the kind of person whose…
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 80ish meters dives? I’m not sure I have a real answer to that, but I can try. But first: ⚠TRIGGER WARNING ⚠ If you are…
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…
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…
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 busy with work, training, home and attending to the many needs of my dog from hell. Since I got so tired of writing long Instagram…
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 find anywhere else. Most poeple like to show the polished sides of themselves and display their medals and successes (hello Instagram!), while I often delve…
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 and that I will never repeat (well, never say never), but especially things I learned about myself, my motivation and what drives me (and what…
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…
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…