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Eric van Riet Paap - Just an intermediate step
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Freediving courses/cursussen
The BeWater site is up and running. We have decided to call it BeWater as an homage to a famous Bruce Lee quote that ends with "Be water my friend". See the site for the full version. If you are looking for AIDA freediving courses (cursussen in het nederlands) then please visit us to see that we can offer what you need.
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I'm now an AIDA Instructor
Some time ago I successfully finished an AIDA instructor course in Greece with Stavros from Freediving Club Greece.
Fellow student Daan Verhoeven and I will now be unleashed upon the world (and The Netherlands in particular) to preach about this beautiful underwater experience.
Daan made the following movie when we had a little bit of time to play after an open water training/teaching session.
Stay tuned, a website is in the making.
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Dutch Freedivers in Dahab (Teaser)
Three more nights until my first freediving trip to Dahab in Egypt.
The trip is organized by Nanja of dutch freediving school Enker. There will be a group of about 15 dutch freedivers among which four of my teammates of Freediving Utrecht - Danny, Edwin, Erik and me.
On the 18th and 20th I will go sled diving with OnlyOne in Sharm. On the 21st I will attend a mini competition where I get the chance to do one depth discipline for an official Aida ranking. To make the time go a little faster I made this short trailer in iMovie'11. I hope you like it.
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One hour successive apnea
During my freedive training between christmas and new years eve 2010 I decided to see how long I could stay under water during one hour. This non-official discipline is called successive apnea and records have been set of around 59:30 and even 59:45.
This movie is speed up 8 times during the breathhold to make it easier to digest. :-)
The rules are: two timekeepers (average time counts). Stopwatch starts with lifting my airways above the surface and stops with me submerging again.
I managed 59:09 (only ;-) ) even thought I did longer breathholds (therefor less times breathing) than the earlier fools. Next time I will need to work on surfacing and inhaling quicker.
Happy new year!
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Max dives
Negotiate the things that go on inside my head.
Be gentle, nice, understanding, but be the father.
Tell it as it is, be firm.
Thoughts of quitting, curses that can be felt throughout the body.
Flashes of intentions go as they came.
Pavlov reaction at times and distances known
the relative unknown races my heartrate
or so I think
my remembrance more distant
expectations, hopes, a memory
inside... inside...
the world still there and well
which is enough to know
waves of attention glide though my body
be water
some more
and more
waiting for a sign, trust, gentle
respect for what is, be happy but realistic
concentrate, some more and more
wait... wait..
yes!
surface with this mind and body
attention and feelings take some more time to return
let go
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