Ever wonder what freediving life is like in the French Riviera? Two freediving girls, Julia from Switzerland and Renee from the US, show you what the small coastline town of Saint Raphael has to offer…. AND IT’S AWESOME! Freediving Girls: […]
My new favorite ambient music for work, meditation, relaxation, static apnea or any other time I need to focus and/or tune-out. Four great music tracks available for download which drowns-out other background sounds and distractions.
It has been over a week since I last freedived. Not being able to do the sport I’ve been addicted to for years and being restricted to rest, rest and, well, more rest, and not doing any exercise and (as Dr. Sadek puts it) “activities where you inhale and do not exhale immediately” is torture, to say the least…
Just because the whiteboard was 75% empty does not imply that this dynamic apnea training was not 100% full-on! Thursday night I was a bit under the weather, but I certainly was not going to miss my last night training with the Saint Raphael Apnee Club.
Today is day seven, I’m to do dynamic apnea tonight with the Saint Raphael Apnee Club. My hamstrings and shoulders are sore morning from yesterday’s yoga workout, but I’m getting accustomed to soreness…
Today is Day 5 of my freediving training program which meant Static Apnea was on the schedule. I half fell, rolled, and slithered out of bed. It was like my brain was up and out but my body forgot to follow. It was so sore that it was stuck.
5 eme jour de mon programme d’entraînement, une séance d’apnée statique est au programme ce soir. Les journées précédentes ont laissé des traces et si le moral n’est pas atteint, la mécanique est un peu grippée.
My swimming training program for freediving with interval & sprint swimming. This develops the endurance and velocity needed for freediving.
Training day two and day three with home workouts that train aerobic fitness and weight training. Perfect for freediving physical preparation.
It was 6:15 am when my alarm went off on August 25th, 2016, the first day of the 5th annual RedCcup competition. The day before, I had announced a 55 meter constant weight dive, which was scheduled for precisely 11:20 […]
Feeling stiff and unflexible in my 5mm wetsuit, I walked to the edge of the water with monofin in hand. I maneuvered around groups of dazed, snorkeling tourists, and stepped my way through pebbly shallows to the edge of the Blue Hole. As I viewed the windy seascape, my mind lost in […]
Woke up 7:15, feeling rested and strong, happy to have finally defeated the cold which plagued me for weeks 😀 The day started-out in the usual way… walked straight from my bed to the kitchen to turn on the kettle, then to the living room for 10 empty-lung-stretches, getting my lungs, ribcage […]
Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. – ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI (DISCOVERER OF VITAMIN C) I approach a superb and mystical universe, rippling with animated sea goldies upon a wall of obscure and bulbous corals. Drowned colors range […]
See what it’s like to freedive off the coast of remote Pemba Island, in this creative and exciting underwater film. Renee illustrates her incredible exploration, freediving along Njou Gap’s Trigger Wall, crossing paths with various fish and critters of all […]
My feet, mounted in Cressi fins dangle over the edge of the boat, while I scan the blue for movement, desperate for any sighting of the creature that has lured us to the remote and rugged Mafia Island, 95 miles […]
Nothing is more fantastic than free-diving in the waters of my own beautiful homeland. Floating face down on the surface of Walden Pond, in the world I forcibly left behind, instructor, Nick Fazah, from East Coast Divers is by my […]
The sea falls down around me, then lifts me to the top of a coral wall. I gaze at the underwater landscape, a scene where novelty never declines, and am caught in a metamorphosis. The world passes away, while I […]
Landing on Pemba Island feels as though we’ve been catapulted backward in time. Apart from the occasional new model vehicle, it could easily be the 1960’s. Retro architecture juxtaposes the Arabic mosques and traditional African style. As we leave the […]
