So today was the freediving competition in Beverwijk near Amsterdam, with the boys from ATA. They’d set up a great pool freediving competition, unfortunately not as many entries as they’d hoped. Never the less a good pool to give the wet static and dynamic with fins a go again.

My last wet-static was with the competition of Wiesbaden (6 months ago), where I’d left of with a 5:11 static performance. Today’s static performance went very good actually, since I had only done some dry-statics. My warming up was a 2:30 easy static and after that going straight into the competition performance. During the warm-up I already felt quite at ease and relaxed, so no doubt I would set a 5+. The static performance during the competition got me up to a point where my mind started questioning myself, but that was just before the 3:30 tap on the shoulder… After that it was straight to the end and no doubts anymore, re-surfacing after 5:33 slightly more than I thought I’d do. So I’m very satisfied with the result, which actually is a personal best in competition!

The dynamic is a whole other story, although it went as planned, it didn’t quite feel as I’d planned it… Already during a 50m slow warm-up lap I felt my legs burn and that kind of caught my attention as this was not normal. Also during my performance my legs started burning on 75m which would normally occur at the 110m point. So my mind slightly out of focus and trying to control the burning legs, I turned at 100m and decided not to over do this run and set a solid performance of 108m. After telling Jorg about my dynamic performanceover the phone  and the burning legs, he told that was exactly what should happen during this phase of my training. Jorg will explain a little bit more about why this had occurred and how this all fits in the schedule.

So bringing this competition in a 3rd place in both DYN and STA and then of course also with the overall ranking 3rd place with 120,6 points, does make the training worthwhile and makes me confident for the future of my 13 project.

Wednesday’s, Thursday’s training
My training during the week  came along very good, no decline in the freediving specific training and my drywalks constant above the 2 minutes. Also the DNF training to regain my comfort and confidence in this discipline is coming along as well, I should have done about 70m easy, but instead I came up at 75m very easy and no decline noticable.

Actually I’m curious where this will take me, but that’s on next week’s schedule

Links:
AAAC Official Results 
Shark-freediving’s story

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