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Mit Apnoe in den Urlaub....
von Thomas Egger und Markus Bedynek
Fotos Dieter Baumann
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Auf der Suche nach dem Heiligen
Gral des Freitauchens
Ansichten und Einsichten von Dieter Baumann
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Apnea Icehockey
by Jaromir Foukal
I would like, if I may, take you on a ice-cold journey.
It began all some years ago. My training partner Dieter Baumann and I are
sometimes very loony freedivers and so we were on the search for a special
place to have our obsession.
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Cyprus 2003
- SFOC
Howard's Game
It is very easy. You find a place where the visibility
is 40m + with a friendly water temperature. You take a professional dive
barge for Constant weight, a hotel with swimming pool for Static and find
somewhere near a sport pool for Dynamic. You write out the event as open
individual so that everybody is able to participate. You call this event
Sony Freediver Open Classic and wait for the inscriptions. No, of course
not easy, instead a lot of work for Howard and his Crew, nicknamed monkeys.
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World record
regulations
a look into regulations and homologations
We all know the headline - New Freediving Worldrecord.
Longer, farer, deeper depending on the discipline, but the performance of
the athlete is only on side, on the other side a lot of regulations are
to follow to have the performance homologated.
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Who is Carlos Coste
or can this man break world records?
Venezuela, coastline with Jurassic Park feeling, cars
with 6 litres or more cubic capacity and a full tank for eight bucks.
Fast food impressions. Out of the city no more asphalt, winding roads
through the mountains just wide enough for one car. After two hours of
jumping around with the car a small fishing village with sand beach. Fairytale
feelings. Houses with high walls, each one in varied colours, radiating
a comfortable kind of welcome.
Inside the house simple, clean and cosy. A first hello with Carlos and
some other Venezuelan freedivers. Appointment for a training session tomorrow.
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FREE IMMERSION - 92 m green experiences -
the coach view, by Dieter Baumann
Again we are sitting in Herbert's BMW driving to a
new world record attempt. Sonja, Herbert's girlfriend, already gave up
to follow our discussions about equalisation techniques, how slow or how
fast to descent respectively to ascent, and is taking a nap on the backseat
of the car. We arrive very late in the afternoon at the place of the attempt,
lake Millstätter and hurry up to get in the water. Out at the platform
I check at first the cable. As several times before it is tangled on -25m
with one of the anchor lines of the platform.
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IBIZA 2001 - the Austrian view
1996 it was Nice / France, 1998 it was Sardegna / Italy
and from the 5th to 13th October it was Ibiza / Spain.
What are we talking about? About the World Championship of Freediving.
31 different countries where present, sixteen women teams and twenty-nine
men teams. Of course including an Austrian men team.
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Tarzan, Buddha, Galileo
About ten years ago, when Sebastién Nagel, today
president of A.I.D.A. International,was still a swimmer, Guy Ackermann
did meet him by chance at a swimming competition. There Guy told him the
first time about the right breathing technique. Years later they did meet
again by chance but this time at an apnea competition.
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Coaching the Austrian dive machine -
an inside view of Herbert Nitsch's - 72 m constant ballast record
A phone call of Herbert started everything. Hallo Dieter,
I did like your work as captain / coach for our national team during the
World Cup round of Montreaux very much. Do you like to coach me for my
constant ballast/freshwater world record? Yes, of course, was my instant
answer.
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Speargun shooting in Germany - premiere of a hot topic
Speargun as word alone, is for many
people a hot topic, especially in Germany. Therefore the big interest for
target shooting was very surprising.
The German dive magazine UNTERWASSER organised together with the Indoor
Dive Centre Aufkirchen a very special dive meeting. Beginner diving in various
disciplines and big party after.
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Herbert, the Austrian dive machine, sets new world records:
Herbert Nitsch, a former swimmer,
achieved the first ever Austrian WORLD RECORD in one of the eleven Apnea
disciplines. Beating the old record by 6meters, he did a131meter dive in
Dynamic without fins. A competition in Geneva/Switzerland, the Dolphins
Cup, was the frame for his record. The 25m pool the place. This meant 5
laps and six meters to improve a since 1993 unbeaten record.
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