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 by the Swiss Subaquatic Sports Federation (FSS) and Lausanne City Sport Services. The competition is open to both Swiss and foreign freedivers who have the possibility of validating their performances just before selection for the world championships in Okinawa. Athletes will also get the chance to improve on their AIDA ranking whilst making a stopover in Geneva before both the worlds and Bizzy Blue Hole.
The competition is open to the public and begins at 9am. For more details and registration contact immersion.profonde@bluewin.ch or visit www.immersion-profonde.ch.
As quite a lot of the readers from this website come from the UK, I thought I would share this news with you as well. The BFA (AIDA national for the UK), has a new committee. See the press release below.
The BFA has announced its new committee for 2009/2010. The committee consists of some long-standing experienced members, including Rachel Sharp, Sam Kirby, Dave Griffiths, Marcus Greatwood, Ben Noble and Martyn Jones, all of whom have held various roles over the years and continue their unstinting support of the sport. They are joined by some newer members, including 2008 UK Team members, MT Solomons and Stuart Bond, and four-times World Record holder, Sara Campbell.
- Chair – Sam Kirby
- Treasurer – Ben Noble
- Training and Safety Officer – Maria-Teresa Solomons
- E media Officer – Martyn Jones
- Secretary – Louise Ireland
- Membership Secretary – Rachel Sharp
- Press Officer – Sara Campbell
- Sponsorship Officer - Marcus Greatwood
- Records Officer and AIDA Liaison – Dave Griffiths
- Clubs Officer – Steve Millard
- Competitions Officer – Stuart Bond
2010 will be an exciting year for freediving, with the Team World Championships being held in the fabulous resort of Okinawa, Japan in July. Excitement among British freedivers over team selection has already begun and it looks as if the promise of competing in Japan will see many divers training hard throughout winter and spring to increase their performances for a chance of selection to represent their country at the 2010 Worlds.
The BFA is currently working on a sponsorship plan, as well as organizing training camps and competitions in Mexico, Dahab and the UK to support its athletes in achieving their very best in Okinawa, a competition which promises to be the most exciting, demanding and toughly contested Worlds competition the sport has seen for many years. Any companies interested in supporting the UK Team in Okinawa should contact Marcus Greatwood or Sara Campbell for information.
Photo by Laura Storm
The BFA has announced the winners of the UK Freediving Championship trophies for 2009.
Mark Harris, a long-standing member of the BFA, supporting the sport through his committee roles, competitive diving and running the Richmond club, claims the men’s title for 2009, for the fourth time in his career.
Liv Philip, a popular and successful figure in competitive diving for three years now, who has held many British women’s records in all three pool disciplines, recently organising pool training and competitions too, takes the women’s title.
The awards recognise the athletes’ overall performance in the sport across the three disciplines of Constant Weight, Dynamic and Static throughout the year.
Mark Harris:
- STA 5:21 – Prague Freediving Competition, June 2009
- DYN 125m – Prague Freediving Competition, June 2009
- CWT 62m – Dahab Mini Competition, May 2009
Liv Philip
- STA 5:04 – Swiss Indoor Championships (60.8pts) 13 June 2009
- DYN 133m – Swiss Indoor Championships (66.5 pts) 13 June 2009
- CWT 62m – Triple Depth, Egypt Sept 2009
Found the following news in my mailbox. Sounds interesting enough if you’re in the neighborhood. So go check it out!
If you are around Prague during 29th of November come and join the special free diving show. Freedive World team is proud to co-organized this event for public. In Suchdol pool, Kamycka street 1073 will the best czech freedivers show and teach those who interested how to hold their breath, how to swim dynamic with fin or without …. clearly how to freedive.
Do you want to learn the techniques of breath hold? Do you want to try the monofin which uses the best of the bests to swim in the blue depth? The best czech freedivers (national record holders) will coach you during the breathing excercises and if you want during the dynamic attempt.
Freediving is not difficult at all. We all spent first nine months of our lives in water – in mother’s womb. This experience had been engraved in our genes. That’s why newborn babies are able to hold their breath and swim under water. Unfortunately, we tend to forget these skills because we live our lives on land. There is nothing easier than “waking up” our aquatic potential again after only a few days of training.
You don’t need any abnormal physical abilities (huge lungs or trained muscles). Everybody can become a freediver. After a series of breathing relaxation exercises, 90% of people are able to hold their breath for more than two minutes and dive 20 meters deep and all this only short course.
Join us: 29th November, Suchdol swimming pool, Kamycka street 1073, Prague, Czech Republic
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