Everybody knows Triple Depth, the competition of the all three depth disciplines at the Blue Hole in Dahab. The competition organized by Freedive Dahab (Lotta Ericson and Linda Paganelli) is pretty demanding and difficult. To overcome FIM, CWT and CNF in three days is really only for the best and this determined the list of the competitioners pretty much.
Triple Depth pyramid
After the unsuccessful competition in Croatia on Rab I decided to improve my achievements at the Triple Depth and tried to appoint myself for the World Championship at Bahamas. It did not turn out very well but let’s take it in order. From the Czech republic I set off with Jarmila Slovenčíková and in Dahab the traditional warm welcome from Flavia and Marek awaited us … shisha, grilling and plum brandy - so called slivovitz.
HaaaaappyTraining went very well. Right in the beginning I improved my results – 80m CWT and 40m CNF. At that time Matt Malina from Poland had been training in Dahab for a few weeks already. And according to his results everybody saw him as a hot favourite of the contest. He had unbelievably long and mainly deep dives, e.g. 70m CNF in 3:50. Few days before the contest Alexey Molchanov appeared at the competitioners’ list and so the winner was for 99% sure :-)
Marek, Flavia and I created a team with a poetic name – inspired by Marek’s and my special breathing training - “shisha team”.
Getting ready for dive
A few days before the contest, I’d managed to “produce” a depth black out while trying to reach 87m CWT. Marek turned out to be a perfect safety and dragged me out of 15m. My psyche and physical condition were apparently badly influenced by this and therefore everything went downhill. Yet the first contest discipline – FIM – went perfect, 70m and white card. However next two days were “in the name of blackouts” – I blacked out at both tries for 83m CWT and 40m CNF at the water level at the protocol and I was disqualified. Thereby I made – at least for Linda’s fun - a blackout record of this year. Obviously with no prize.
OK ... at this moment :-)
Marek showed again that he is a real freediver talent and with his achievements of 70m FIM, 76m CWT and 63 m CNF ended up as the second runner-up. He improved his personal record in CNF and is slowly drawing apart from all the competitioners from the Czech republic. The winner, as anticipated, was Alexey Molchanov: 90m FIM, 90m CWT, 66m CNF. The rising polish star Matt Malina was runner-up: 80m FIM, 80m CWT, 70m CNF.
Marek getting the price
Flavia progressed to the last discipline CNF. Unfortunately she had a black out and in overall she ended up at the eighth place with the results of 51m FIM and 60m CWT. Together we discussed our blackout experiences, shared what each of us dreamt about and agreed that those dreams were more pleasant and nicer than usually. :-)
Jarmila Slovenčíková confirmed herself as a leader of the competition and the best Czech freediver among women. She won this year’s Triple Depth with results: 59m FIM, 68m CWT and 52m CNF. Moreover in FIM and CNF she broke the national records – her own. :-)
Jarmila and Alexey ... winning couple
Absolutely perfect organization and monstrous good-bye party eventually dwarfed my negative after-taste from the messed-up performances and I am already looking forward to the next year. Primarily to the after-party. :-)
...... and stroke and kick and stroke
..... and stroke and kick .... once again
preparation for DNF ... please do not disturb
ups .. who took this pic?
... smile for the judges ... and white card
staring at the judges ...smile a bit maaan!
so far so good
having a hard time?
tatoo galery seconds before DNF
who's that girl? ... is it even a girl?
clean and warm pool ... 26 C
static .. hmm everyone hates it
coaches loves it
me coaching
my athletes .... nervous?
Judges on static
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