Shark Freediving

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• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: Do It!   1 hour, 20 minutes ago · View

  This is a post by . Yesterday was a good freediving session in the pool! Besides some good technique training it also reminded me of taking charge of your own destiny. We share our pool with a scubadiving team and in the last weeks we claimed our own spot, putting a line in the water [...]

• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: Announced: Swiss Indoor Apnea Championships 2010   1 hour, 40 minutes ago · View

  This year’s Swiss National Indoor Apnea Championships will take place on April 18 2010 at Grand-Vennes, Lausanne. Some 30 athletes will be competing in static and dynamic apnea disciplines where capacity for breath hold and stress management will be crucial to winning a national title. Organizing this year’s event is local apnea club Immersion Profonde, helped [...]

• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: AIDA WC 2010 Website Open   1 day, 10 hours ago · View

  As reported earlier , this year the AIDA world championships will be a team event that will take place in Japan. The website has just opened and some first information can be found over there. Take a look here. One of the interesting stuff on the site is the price per athlete to compete, which is set at 690 [...]

• Sanne wrote a new blog post: Grueling CO2 and dynamic turns   2 days, 14 hours ago · View

  This is a post by . It is always a good thing to train with other freedivers once and a while, which made me decide to visit the pool in Zeist again for a freediving training. I joined up with Eric van Riet Paap at 19:45 yesterday and we started out with a static session to be followed [...]

• Sanne wrote a new blog post: Repetitive training & technique   1 week ago · View

  This is a post by . That was some proper training at the Tongelreep, Eindhoven last night. Both Jorg and I had been planning to continue the good training from the week before, so we were determined to get the alignment on the next level by getting some distance in. Repetitive Distance not in the maximum [...]

• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: Flow vs Technique   1 week ago · View

  This is a post by . There is a big difference at the moment between trying to execute a correct technique with a monofin and enjoying being underwater with a monofin. If I really focus on technique, relaxation is very far away and vice versa. I was already struggling with this for the last past weeks. [...]

• Sanne wrote a new blog post: Monofin: Horizontal alignment correct both ways now   2 weeks ago · View

  This is a post by . So it seems from the training last night that my horizontal alignment is getting somewhere. The past few weeks we have been training a lot with the monofin, just to get the proper movement. The hardest part was figuring out what amplitude to go by and how that feels opposed [...]

• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: Need A Push   2 weeks, 1 day ago · View

  This is a post by . Another good training done and while the physical training is going pretty well, I noticed while driving to home I didn’t have a real mental challenge. When I do static training it is always mental, but with dynamic the focus has been to technique only. So it’s time to change [...]

• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: Announced: US National Freediving Championship   2 weeks, 1 day ago · View

  I received the press release below about the US National Freediving Championships that will take place in Hawaii from April 22-25. Looks like it’s going to be an interesting competition, so if you’re in the neighborhood, go for it! US National Freediving Championship set for April 22 through 25, 2010 at Freedive Paradise event. Feb 25, 2010 – The United [...]

• Jorg Jansen wrote a new blog post: The Newest PFI Freediver!   2 weeks, 2 days ago · View

  Performance Freediving International has expanded their list of employees with another little female freediver. Yesterday Kirk and Mandy Krack became the proud parents of Kaila Krack (2.6 kg/46 cm).

  Lung volume is still a secret, but with this gene pool, it will for sure become a very special freediver.

  Congratulations from Shark Freediving!