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…
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…
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…
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…