Ripples

Never one to shy away from some self-publicity, I was pleased to read Richard Pullan's first article on IHT training at Deeper Blue.net. Apart from the comment about me wanting to improve my performance without doing rigorous exercise, I thought it read well. If nothing else it has sent ripples out to the Freedive community who are challenging the need to do this type of training. Sebastien Murat has come up with an interesting alternative, which sounds viable. It involves hyperventilating prior to full-exhale statics (dry). I started practising full-exhale statics as part of my warm-up routine about a year ago, and I do think this bought me some extra time.

Pool training last night produced a clean 5:45 static, but I doubt it would have been wobble-free much after that. Being in charge of the group ( eight last night ) introduces its own set of stresses, which don't go hand in hand with long static times.

Still, enough time for improvements before the CIPA Open, in Nice, last weekend in May. I need to find out if this will be valid for AIDA ranking and not a capped event.