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…
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 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…
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…
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 to work for it. Last year when I started training again after 5 years of mainly walking into forests I picked bifins and no-fins as…