Freediving is a sport full of depth but with shallow coverage. These last 2 days I spent several hours watching the CMAS Pool World Championship: with each new big comp comes the Diveye streaming and with it a very boring and unprofessional commentary. So I took matters in my own hands and started posting an alternative commentary…
How to record times during your dynamic sessions I used to think that recording times during training sessions was a very simple and very obvious thing. But boy, was I wrong. Ever since I started coaching people, due to my detail-oriented personality but also because it’s plain simple common sense, I always ask my “clients”…
Comfortable vs Familiar – A ramble I was just recently listening to a podcast; nothing to do with freediving, in fact it was about running, but many concepts resonate with my ideas of training in freediving. This one was about training plans for running, and the conversation touched on to different workout’s training intensity…
New year resolution: What I will change during the next training season. The list is long! 1- Not preparing for a particular event 2- Fixing my equalisation (by fixing my head) 3- Fixing my pre-dive fixations (strictly connected to point n.2) 4- Doing at least 1 “deep” dive per week all throughout the winter 5-…
Which FIM start do you prefer? There are different ways to breathe-up before a dive, which will consequently influence your “starting” technique. The 3 main breathe-ups are: – Through a snorkel (which is not very common for deep diving mainly because it makes packing more difficult to do) – In a vertical position with your…
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…
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 do a truckload of dry statics: co2 tables, max attempts, FRC sets, O2 sets, high HR statics, and all sorts of combinations of the above.…
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 to get it wrong, but I see too many competition level freedivers who do max dynamics having the wrong buoyancy. Wrong weighting means that you…
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…
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 powerpoint file and tried to write down a presentation. I have a deep love for this subject and I taught it several times during my…
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 for bifins, so I posted another video of the same turn done with bifins, just to illustrate its efficiency, since many think that this turn…
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 losing steam. Since it is not possible to get more depth here, I had to give myself a new goal for every new dive to…