The future of freediving fins
This is an interview with Chris Campbell, a marine engineer based in Vancouver, Canada. He has been working on a new style monofoil for 2 years and makes his own carbon fin blades. I had the pleasure of picking his …
This is an interview with Chris Campbell, a marine engineer based in Vancouver, Canada. He has been working on a new style monofoil for 2 years and makes his own carbon fin blades. I had the pleasure of picking his …
Your freediving mask is the most important piece of gear you use in the water. Sure, you might be able to do a line-dive without a mask, with fluid goggles or hektometers but you need a good mask to see …
In May this year, I went for a 3-km open water swim. Thanks to a combination of imperfect technique, waves, and being negatively buoyant I managed to get water up my right frontal sinus.The day after I felt pressure behind …
Habits are a powerful tool for us human beings. We are able to do most of our day to day without actually thinking about it. Our habits allow us to reserve our energy for the more important things in life. …
How much training is enough? How much training should you do today? Did you recover from yesterday’s exercise? Are you coping well with your training or not?
Many of these questions can be answered by using heart rate variability and …
My book, ‘Longer and Deeper: cross training for freediving and spearfishing’, is nearly ready. I’m very excited to finally share a sample with you.
I’m also very proud that Aolin Wang, the national record holder of China has written a …
Most people fear holding their breath. Their entire body will scream for air a minute into a breath hold. For them, the thought of deliberately going underwater for extended periods of time without scuba gear seems completely crazy.
And at …
Contractions are the blessing and curse of every breath hold. Contractions provide an easy way to gauge whether your dive is coming to an end. Unfortunately your first contraction also marks the start of the struggle (the struggle phase of …
The best exercises are those that don’t feel like exercises. If you don’t enjoy doing static or dynamic sessions, there are still ways you can train. You simply need to find some fun things to do underwater. Here are some …
You did the perfect duckdive, had the most relaxed descent you have ever had, and turn with a tag in your hand. Or perhaps you waited at the bottom, speared a good fish, and start swimming back up.
And your …