The last month has been devoted to training David Kent. David is the current UK record holder in CNF 62 mts (breast stroking down and back).
David has a current best of 68 mts CNF. He trained with me for 3 weeks in October 2012 and during the winter was following a remote coaching program we put together. This program focused first of all on flexibility. Then on breath hold, both empty and full lung, static and dry dynamic exercises.
Other elements of the winter training were strength exercises with body weight and Continued…
May
22
Apr
10
Todays webinar dealing with usage of noslips, aerobic/anaerobic (aerobic vs. anaerobic) training, lactic acid tolerance in DNF (dynamic no fins) discipline. Enjoy and join us for the next one!
Mar
27
DCS in freediving. When to wbegin working with a monofin?
Feb
27
Looks like the video is recorded!! You can watch it later if you’ve missed.
Feb
27
Noseclips, liquid goggles, equalisation and more
Feb
23
There have been several incidents, recently, of pulmonary barotraumas and even air embolism connected to the practice of “air packing”. Sufficient incidents are enough to raise concern.
We cannot wait for formal experiments, to determine the degree of risk. This may take years before even a protocol can be designed for tests, we need to act now. At least paying attention, and approaching techniques that have an element of risk with a degree of caution.
Part of the trouble is that the general freediving public is becoming more aware of techniques practiced by the Elite few, without any awareness of the safety constrictions that they put upon themselves, or without any idea of how long it has taken them to get to their current level of physiological adaptation to this technique.
The better informed are beginning to realise that there is a difference between packing for depth and Continued…
Feb
13
After some technical problems – another webinar
Feb
7
Talking about BTV / BTO / Hands free equalisation