{"id":546,"date":"2012-10-13T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2012-10-13T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:42:15","slug":"david-kent-uk-cnf-record-holder-training-in-eilat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/david-kent-uk-cnf-record-holder-training-in-eilat\/","title":{"rendered":"David Kent UK CNF record holder training in Eilat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dave_cnf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-547\" title=\"David Kent CNF Freediver\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dave_cnf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On the 30th September <a href=\"http:\/\/davidkentfreediver.wordpress.com\/\">David Kent<\/a> arrived from the UK to spend 9 days with us training equalisation at depth David is the current UK recorder in CNF at 66mts, he had for the previous 2 months been part of our remote coaching program, and so he arrived well prepared both physically and mentally. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/remote-coaching\/\">remote coaching<\/a> program we had worked intensively on flexibility, which is critically important for easy equalisation at extreme depths. He had also been learning our version of the <!--more-->mouthfill in a 4mt deep pool in the UK on empty lungs. This simulates actual descents to 58.4 mts. Our technique bears no resemblance to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eric Fattah method\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, which is essentially a Frenzel + mouthfill.<\/p>\n<p>This system (the Fattah method) has inherent weaknesses, the main being in air recovery at depth, which often leads to a trachea squeeze. David had come a long way towards learning our technique before he arrived. He had been doing intensive work on stress breath hold and had the capacity to exceed 100 mts CNF from a breath hold point of view. This of course helps in building confidence but there is no substitute for depth training to enable the body to adapt to depth and pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that our objective on this visit was not the acquisition of depth, but refining technique and tactics. David has a good swimming technique and is very mentally strong.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the epitome of the sportsman and a gentleman. He is modest, and one of the nicest people I have been privileged to meet in Freediving.<\/p>\n<p>The training very quickly progressed from initially 30 mts to 40mts and eventually to our 62mt buoy.<\/p>\n<p>David is a joy to train, he absorbs new information extremely quickly and is free from moods and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153attitude\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. His former incarnation as a Royal Marine Commando certainly helps.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion David will go a very long way and I look forward to seeing him in competition in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the training we really enjoyed having him year and would feel priviledged to call him Friend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 30th September David Kent arrived from the UK to spend 9 days with us training equalisation at depth David is the current UK recorder in CNF at 66mts, he had for the previous 2 months been part of our remote coaching program, and so he arrived well prepared both physically and mentally. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedivers.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}