7.7.10
Vids are on
Just verry short post .. maybe the shortest ever. After days of hard work and days of shisha smoking and doing nothing we finally managed to publish all the videos from the Czech Freediving Championship. They come from the live broadcast, so sometimes it is not the whole performance. Just in case u will be complaining :-) And here they are.
5.6.10
The end is the beginning ...
The Czech National Championship in freediving is over. After three days of permanent sleep I finally got some time to write few words about it. No - it is not because of the cuban fists - I was so f....ing tired. The truth said I never realized that organizing such a event is sooo hard. All the little details - “Hey, where are the showers?, Hey there is no toilet paper?, Hey the set up in the pool is against the rules and you have to correct it!” Big THANK’ S to all the staff and special one to co-organizer Jarmila Slovenčíková which did wanderfull job.
Day One - DYNIt all begun with problems. One camera, which should be in the barell underwater, was not working and we coud not figure out why. 30 minutes before first OT we had to reorganized the comp line set up and places for the UW cameras. So there was a slight delay and only one UW camera in the barell instead of two. :-( First OT and we found another big trouble - the two surface cameras which were connected to the stream = on 50m cables. You can’t imagine what makes 50m cables around the pool draging there and back. In a while it was complete mess - cables, judges, another athletes - everything together. So this was not the way how to do it. Instead of moving surface cameras, fixed one did the job much better.
On the DYN discipline there were three national records. New Czech male record did Petr Vala - 215m. The other two goes to Poland - Agatha Bogusz 150m and Mateusz Malina 204m.
Day Two - STA, DNF
The second day went perfect. With all the knowledge from the first day we set u our cameras well, test everything and waited for the first OT. Everybody awaited the big competiton between Mat Malina and Petr Vala. And Matt did great. Static 7:09 and wanderfull coaching. I think many of the freedivers found new hints how to coach during static. Alexandra was nursing Matt like a baby, splashing water on him - to keep him awake I think - and went with him all the way to the white card. On the contrary I fucked up my couching and Saša was so angry about it. SORRY. In DNF there were also great performances, soon the vidoes will be on the pages.
Results
After all I thing that it was a success. Well you can’t expekt nothing else from me as a organizer can you? :-) Mat Malina and Agatha Bogusz won the gold medals and Michal Rišian and Barbora Ivanská are the Czech Champions for 2010. You can find all the results here. .
We have a tons of great footage. Big thanks to the broadcasting team - Pavel Ostrý, Martin Schellong, Aleš Ostrý, František Černý and Daniel Ondrůj. You can watch the short teaser here:
The rest of it will be posted soon on the www.freedivecenter.com edited by the disciplines and athletes. But most important think is that we are now more experienced and we are building a new uw camera setup for better and brighter videos from freediving competitions.
Peter Vala's hard time
Peter Vala's happy time
UW camera crew
Surface camera crew
Naked director
Mr. Barell
broadcasting HQ
Martin Petrisko: I'm sick .. can not compete
Michal Rišian: OT? what? why?
Pavlína Procházková: I'm the Judge .. so piss off
Jarmila Slovenčíková: Go! Go! Go!
Male winners
Morfeus: Goood competition
Freediving poetry. You better don't want to know what was it about
Day One - DYNIt all begun with problems. One camera, which should be in the barell underwater, was not working and we coud not figure out why. 30 minutes before first OT we had to reorganized the comp line set up and places for the UW cameras. So there was a slight delay and only one UW camera in the barell instead of two. :-( First OT and we found another big trouble - the two surface cameras which were connected to the stream = on 50m cables. You can’t imagine what makes 50m cables around the pool draging there and back. In a while it was complete mess - cables, judges, another athletes - everything together. So this was not the way how to do it. Instead of moving surface cameras, fixed one did the job much better.On the DYN discipline there were three national records. New Czech male record did Petr Vala - 215m. The other two goes to Poland - Agatha Bogusz 150m and Mateusz Malina 204m.
Day Two - STA, DNF The second day went perfect. With all the knowledge from the first day we set u our cameras well, test everything and waited for the first OT. Everybody awaited the big competiton between Mat Malina and Petr Vala. And Matt did great. Static 7:09 and wanderfull coaching. I think many of the freedivers found new hints how to coach during static. Alexandra was nursing Matt like a baby, splashing water on him - to keep him awake I think - and went with him all the way to the white card. On the contrary I fucked up my couching and Saša was so angry about it. SORRY. In DNF there were also great performances, soon the vidoes will be on the pages.
Results
After all I thing that it was a success. Well you can’t expekt nothing else from me as a organizer can you? :-) Mat Malina and Agatha Bogusz won the gold medals and Michal Rišian and Barbora Ivanská are the Czech Champions for 2010. You can find all the results here. .
We have a tons of great footage. Big thanks to the broadcasting team - Pavel Ostrý, Martin Schellong, Aleš Ostrý, František Černý and Daniel Ondrůj. You can watch the short teaser here:
The rest of it will be posted soon on the www.freedivecenter.com edited by the disciplines and athletes. But most important think is that we are now more experienced and we are building a new uw camera setup for better and brighter videos from freediving competitions.
Peter Vala's hard time
Peter Vala's happy time
UW camera crew
Surface camera crew
Naked director
Mr. Barell
broadcasting HQ
Martin Petrisko: I'm sick .. can not compete
Michal Rišian: OT? what? why?
Pavlína Procházková: I'm the Judge .. so piss off
Jarmila Slovenčíková: Go! Go! Go!
Male winners
Morfeus: Goood competition
Freediving poetry. You better don't want to know what was it about27.5.10
The D day
So my friends ... tomorrow is the day. We will start our broadcasting from freediving champ at 19:00. You can find it at: http://www.freedivecenter.com/en/livestream
If everything will work fine than you can watch the DYN on Friday (19:00 - 21:00) and STA (10:15 - 12:00) and DNF (14:30 - 17:00) on Saturday. The final set up is: 2 uw cameras for turns, 2 uw cameras in our special "barels" for swimming and 2 surface cameras for protocols.
If we will flood the cameras than you will see nothing and I will need to look for another job. :-)
If everything will work fine than you can watch the DYN on Friday (19:00 - 21:00) and STA (10:15 - 12:00) and DNF (14:30 - 17:00) on Saturday. The final set up is: 2 uw cameras for turns, 2 uw cameras in our special "barels" for swimming and 2 surface cameras for protocols.
If we will flood the cameras than you will see nothing and I will need to look for another job. :-)
8.4.10
Pioneers of freedive broadcasting vol.2
Solving the problems
As you can found in the video, we managed to solve the main problem with the moisture in the UW housing. Quite simple task. Assembling the whole device in the dry place did the trick. Picture is clear and the moisture gone.
The second trouble is that the barell is hard to manouvre and operate. Well we have a nice friend. He describes himself as a “guy working with metall”, so we asked him. And he did nice - and heavy - “tripod” for the whole think.
Meet more friends
By chance we got contact to a guy who did years before somethink similar. Broadcasting from UW rugby championship. By the way that is a weird sport, I can tell you that. But the guy is absolute guru of UW live coverage. So we decided to combine both of the methods - he’s got stationary UW cameras - and we have six cameras instead of three.
One, two, three, test, test
Finally we connected the cameras to the broadcast control. Took almost two hours to set everything right. Loot of wires, one old monitor which does not worked, one new monitor which finally did the job, connecting one think to another and it works.
At the end of May you all are invited to watch the Czech National Championship in Freediving 2010 ..... LIVE.
Pics will come latelly ... the connection in Dahab is now tooo lazy for upload.
As you can found in the video, we managed to solve the main problem with the moisture in the UW housing. Quite simple task. Assembling the whole device in the dry place did the trick. Picture is clear and the moisture gone.
The second trouble is that the barell is hard to manouvre and operate. Well we have a nice friend. He describes himself as a “guy working with metall”, so we asked him. And he did nice - and heavy - “tripod” for the whole think.
Meet more friends
By chance we got contact to a guy who did years before somethink similar. Broadcasting from UW rugby championship. By the way that is a weird sport, I can tell you that. But the guy is absolute guru of UW live coverage. So we decided to combine both of the methods - he’s got stationary UW cameras - and we have six cameras instead of three.
One, two, three, test, test
Finally we connected the cameras to the broadcast control. Took almost two hours to set everything right. Loot of wires, one old monitor which does not worked, one new monitor which finally did the job, connecting one think to another and it works.
At the end of May you all are invited to watch the Czech National Championship in Freediving 2010 ..... LIVE.
Pics will come latelly ... the connection in Dahab is now tooo lazy for upload.
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