The importance of building habit. As in the RIGHT HABIT, not any stupid habit (as you will see). During last year world championship in Roatan, I missed a podium for my CNF dive because I missed the line when I surfaced. Here’s the details if you are interested in the technical stuff (and mistakes to…
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 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…