Already week 5. It’s going fast! Only 8 weeks to go. This week is the last week of the first base schedule in which we provide the basics for Sanne the freediver and next week we will start with the next step. So this will be exciting!

Last weeks training went pretty well. There was a clear increase in fitness and stamina, exactly what we are after in these first weeks. The schedule was slightly altered to match the freediving competition on Sunday in which Sanne did two good and calculated performances. As we’ve footage of both events it will be fun to do a review of both performances. So lets start with the static.

Last time Sanne did a wet static it was during the Wiesbaden competition in 2006, already 6 months and 8 days ago. So we were very curious if my dry/wet conversion calculation would be right. I would already be happy if he did an easy 5 minutes +, so that he would come close to his current competition record 5:20 min. In the end Sanne did a good and clean 5:33 min, so it was a very good performance and a new personal best is always great! First just take a look at the attempt and jump in half way;

http://www.shark-eye.com/flv/tsb/aaac2007-sanne-static.flv

Now let’s talk about it. Read further for my complete analytics about Sanne’s static attempt.
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