Shark Freediving

Maria Hovden - Photo By Daan Verhoeven

So our first competition of the year 2010 is over and it was great! Three national records broken and some happy faces.

While there were some organizing problems with regards to the AIDA ranking and our video project, the core of the competition run well and smooth. Thanks to the help of Susan Kluytmans and Erik Skoda for judging the competition, Mario Verhagen for the general help, Marieke Broeksteeg as medical staff and Sanne Buurma for his safety work and video project help.

The competition started with a total of 18 freedivers, but unfortunately in the last week 10 people cancelled and we had to change the setup somewhat. With only 8 people freediving it would be best to give them the perfect dynamic freediving competition experience and we had the right pool to do it in.

Every freediver got 2 dynamic attempts and we kept a very easy to follow 10 minute starting time for each freediver.

In the end there were some great performances done and some personal records, but of course the 200 meter dynamic with fins done by Eric van Riet Paap was for sure the highlight of the competition. Nanja van den Broek completed this by doing a new national record of 155 meters, only hours after returning from Dahab and still the depth in her legs and using all kind of borrowed material.

And of course we have to mention Daan who set the first national record by doing a 175 meter dynamic with fins. But, poor Daan,  then Eric was let loose in the pool and did his 200 meter dive.

It was great to have Sanne, Nanja, Maria, Judith, Peter, Eric, Daan and Marc in the pool and it was for sure fun to see them dive.

There were the normal strange dives, like Eric his crawl over the bottom giving him a total of -145 points. Or Daan doing his upside down dynamic no fins dive. We ended the competition with a nice meal at the swimming pool restaurant.

Click here for the complete result list

It was fun to organize once again and next time will be bigger and better yet again!

Daan saying Hi to the online viewers

The Videos

We setup some camera’s to capture all the action going on so that we could stream everything. Too bad not everything was a success due to limited bandwidth and some other factors, but nevertheless I think you can enjoy the footage we got from the turning point @ 50/150 meters. Watch it here and see the time codes below to watch each turn.

0:16:40 – Peter – 50m
0:26:40 – Daan – 50m – the first turn of a 175 meter dive
0:27:50 – Daan – 150m – only 25 meters to go
0:36:40 – Eric – 50m – did he know already he was going for 200?
0:38:30 – Eric – 150m – only 50 meters to go for a 200 meter dive!
0:46:40 – Marc – 50m
1:08:10 – Sanne – 50m
1:16:40 – Judtih – 50m
1:36:40 – Nanja – 50m – the first turn of her national record dive
1:38:28 – Nanja – 150m – 5 meters later she comes up for a new dutch record
1:46:40 – Peter – 50m
1:56:40 – Daan – 50m – Daan has a message for the viewers
2:08:54 – Eric – 50m – Watch Eric crawl on the floor
2:16:40 – Marc – 50m
2:26:40 – Maria – 50m

Here is the static cam from the corner of the pool. Unfortunately it’s pretty low quality due to the bandwidth limitation.

Mobile Cam Video’s: Judith 1, Maria 1, Peter 1, Daan 1, Eric 1, Marc 1, Sanne 2, Judtih 2, Nanja 2, Peter 2, Daan 2, Eric 2, Marc 2, Maria 2