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.
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The elf has had her knuckles wrapped! In a friendly, caring sort of way. My very gorgeous girlfriend raised an interesting question at Monday's girlie lunch, 'Does the Mume and elf epitomise reality?' ..... I think she means does life imitate art imitate life? So I thought I'd reform - not easy when you've lived on the dark side as long as I have. Cruella DeVile is dead, long live Snow White!
Determined to prove the bookies wrong, the new and improved elf began by boosting the Mume's annual bonus with some early afternoon retail therapy. 100 notes on Chantelle's latest line in sexy lace. What goes round comes around in the world of John Lewis partners! Mume receives a double whammy private, late night viewing with the added satisfaction that he is in effect being paid for it. Doesn't get much better than that!
Valentine's night in the Harris-Storm house. Elf is still wearing Snow White's hat, but it's slipping. Romantic dinner for two and a few hours of undivided attention. Elf is prancing around in her new Chantelle. Mume is in bed reading Umberto's manual .... ' Did I tell you I'm running for the BFA Press Officer post?'
I rest my case!
Mume has arrived home steaming. He's been in the pub after a bad day at work and elf is in the shit ..... gone way too far with my blog trashing.
Ha! I'm finally getting a reaction, wondered how long it would take. Seems the lingerie was appreciated after all! It's just not good for the statics ;)
Elf has been on the wine :)
A Jelly Baby walks into a bar and starts talking to a Smartie.
After a few beers the Smartie says "Hey, a bunch of us are heading to that new club, fancy tagging along?"
The Jelly Baby says "No mate, I'm a soft centre, I always end up getting my head kicked in".
"So?" Smartie says "don't worry about it, I'm a bit of a hard case, I'll look after you."
Jelly Baby thinks about it for a minute and says "Fair enough, as long as you'll look after me", and off they go.
After a few more beers in the club, three Lockets walk in. As soon as he sees them, Smartie hides under the table. The Lockets take one look at Jelly Baby and start kicking him, breaking coke bottles over his little
jelly head, lamping him with little sugary chairs, and generally having a laugh.
After a while they get bored and walk out. Jelly Baby pulls his battered Jelly Baby body over to the table and wipes up his Jelly Baby blood. He turns to Smartie and says "I thought you were going to look after me?"
"I was!" says Smartie, "But those Lockets are fucking menthol".
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