This is a beautiful video showcasing freediving.
More information about the people who made the video can be found here: http://www.weightlessemotions.com
Great video to start off the New Year
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Tags: apnea, freedive, freediving
Categories : Freedive, freediving, General, Great Videos
Freedive Toronto on Citytv’s Breakfast Television
11 08 2011Toronto, Friday August 5, 2011
It was an early rise for the Freediving National Championships organizers, crew and athlete this morning as they appeared in today’s Breakfast Television show with Sangita Patell and the LiveEye crew at the Etobicoke Olympium Pool. Under the watchful eye of Freedive Toronto President and AIDA Instructor Doug Sitter, Sangita faced her long-standing fear of water and attempted a breath-hold performance called static apnea, which is a discipline of freediving done on one breath of air, face down in the water without the exertion of movement. This discipline is measure of time spent on a breath-hold (also called sportive apnea). For a first timer, Sangita did really well in her attempt, reaching a personal best of 56 seconds.
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Categories : AIDA Canada Pool Nationals, AIDA Canada Pool Nationals 2010, Freedive, freediving, General, Great Videos, Pool Training, Training, Video
2011 Freedive Spring Adventure
11 06 2011The first major dive trip 2011! What better place to go then Tobermory Ontario. The water was a bit cold (6 to 9 Deg. C) but that didn’t stop anyone from a good time.
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Montreal Pool Competition – Dynamic No Fins
16 04 2011Preliminary results from the DNF. Looking forward to tomorrow.
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Montreal Pool Competition 2011 – Static Results
16 04 2011These are the preliminary results of the Static event.
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Mayan Riviera, Mexico – Family Fun and Freediving
2 02 2011January 1st 2011 we left snowy Toronto for a week on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico. We stayed at the Akumal Beach Resort, South of Playa Del Carmen and spent most of the time at this waterfront resort located on Akumal Bay. ( Akumal = Place of the Turtles) Lots of opportunities to snorkel/freedive on the reef. Also just a short walk to the North is Half Moon Bay a great place for an afternoon snorkel. Both reefs are a little worse for hurricane wear but Akumal attracts a lot of tourists for the beach and reef tours. We were able to enhoy as a family the snorkelling and at the same time I got to practise some breath hold photography putting my digital point and shoot camera in a small camera drybag from MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op) here in Toronto.
We made two off resort trips the first was to the ruins at Coba and Tuluum, both were awesome.
Mid day we stopped at two Cenotes (underground caverns) for a refreshing swim and a little free diviving.
Our second trip was to the “Hidden Worlds” nature/adventure park just a short cab ride South of the resort. This featured jungle/cenotes tours, including the “sky cycle”, very novel and interesting. Also a number of unique zip lines through the canopy, and also two that splashed you down in the cenotes. The tour finished off with a guided snorkel into the depths of their cenotes which connects up with others in the extensive underground river system of the area.
We all had a great time, there is tons of good snorkelling, ruins and beach to keep any family busy for a week. The diving/snorkelling opportunities abound in this area and I needed to be careful to keep in mind that this was a family vacation and not a frediving adventure.
Rob
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