Free Dive World: 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.