The Tongelreep was opened for the public again, after the European championships were held here in the past 3 weeks. The urge for water was very high, so planning a training in the water again felt really good.

Monday night, we started of with a brief static session. My goal was set by Jorg at a 3 minute preparation static and a 4 minute (or more… ) static. As it’s been a while since Geneva’s non-impressive static, we set out on a training curve were my goals wouldn’t have any pressure on my mind. The preparation static was no problem, although contractions may have started a bit early, I had no heavy contractions.

Same goes for my second static, with the goal at 4 minutes, Jorg tapped me at the intervals: 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4 minutes and after that every 15 seconds. Contractions started early, as I recall around 2 minutes, but they never intensified to the level of contractions I used to have. This made it possible for me to do a 5 minute 15 seconds static, with no heavy contractions in the end. I think that having low intensity contractions may have startled me and thus making the decision to surface. At first I never believed Jorg when he told me it was a 5:15 static…as it felt like a 3 minute static. So in the end when reviewing we came to the conclusion I was using only swimming goggles and no nose-clip, so we’re continuing down that path for the future static sessions.

The second part of my training consisted of technique training for the monofin, but first I coached Jorg during his freediving specific crawl exercises. Jorg started enjoying this exercise a few weeks back and he does this every training before I get into the water. It’s good to see him putting in all the effort in such a training.

The monofin technique training showed the progress I was going through since the past weeks. I started of by making the monofin amplitude too wide, looking back at the footage from the underwater-camera helps me to see my mistakes. We did a couple more lanes and tried to tweak it down more and more… The end-result was actually satisfying to see, never thought my lower-back would become flexible at all.

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