2012 March 28

The last training day, I met 70m finally. 2 days off and the the competition is coming....

2012 March 24

65m Dive and dolphins.

2012 March 15

The depth has been stopped at 62m since March 9. The advices from JP and Wolfgang.
JP:
Good, 62, Super. I told you already, in 2005, I went 94m without mouthfill and with mask. It took me almost 4 months training, step by step, not burning myself. The theory says it is impossible, but I did. As Guillaume Nery did his CW record in 92 or 93m with mask.
The reel secret is to let your body adapts to the pressure, so you can get completely relax, so your equalisation will be easier. Keep going the practice with the mouthfill and if you can, train BTV which is more saving in air.
I'll be back in Moalboal on the 22 of March.

Wolfgang:
Dont worry. Many things you can train that bring you deeper. Can you pack with a snorkel ? This way you learn to better use the tongue as a piston. Next step will be to check if you really do a big mouthfill. Then working on frc+mouthfill. Starting with the mouthfill first on the surface and then later the mouthfill deeper 10m. All without max depth.

2012 March 7

I am not ready for long time free fall mentally. But I will overcome it. Although I got a new PB 58m today.

Triple PBs 3 for 3. They all went to train together and came back deeper than before. MingChun goes to 58m today with his monofin. Tomaz J from Slovenia and Clemens from Germany did 52m without fins.PBs keep coming... by Andrew

2012 March 6

Nice dive today. No current, no wave, no jellyfish, and warm temperature. New PB, 57.4m in 2:01, easy dive, no LMC. I changed the way to dive down and the kick of monofin, at first 20m one arm stroke and then right hand up, left hand equalization. On the way of coming back, both hand up, only using hip to kick, less movement on hand and body. Feel good today.

*PB's Found Here* MingChun H. (not related to Yao Ming) our newest training member from Taiwan does another PB here to 57M with his Glide Monofin as he trains for the upcoming comp...he says it was an easy dive. He's pretty much already mastered the 50's. The other guys were on a rest day, so it was only Ming and I. I did a pretty easy 72M dive as I continue to work on mastering the 70s, which means for me, being able to hit 70m easily every time. ...... By Andrew

2012 March 1

It was the first time to do deep dive with monofin, but it was a bad start , and body inclined on the way. Although the max depth was 55.8m, I got a little bit LMC on the surface. The total dive time was 2:32. Andrew said it was crazy to do PB by your first time using monofin for deep dive. The good thing is that if I modify my position I will go deeper easily.I will change the timing of mouthfilling from 23m to 25.

2012 February 22

The last day of advanced course, we did deep diving training by boat. I used a life jacket for relaxing on the surface, and 20 times packing. My body condition was not so good, I can't get relax, and I lost some air from my mouth. Finally I did 50.8m on CWT. Maybe next time I will try hand-down kicking, and slow down the movement.

2012 February 21

empty lung training with advanced students in tonggo. 27 degree water temperature, bad 15m visibility. Only wearing old wetsuit is cold, so I put rashguard inside, but it's uncomfortable

2012 February 19

I dive with Wolfgang's students in advanced course in front of Serena resort. After three times empty lung warmups, I do deep diving to 45.7m, bad start but good timing for doing mouthfill. I found a way to hear the notify of doing mouthfill from my diving computer, which is doing equilizing by left hand. It is closer to my ear. At the bottom, I still have some air in the mouth, it means I can go deeper easily. But last 10m I ascent too fast, I feel some dizzy.

2012 February 15

Boat diving. Did a 40m CWT dive in bi-fin and 1kg weight. Not good, because I failed the mouthfiill by not hearing the beep of 20m notify. A German, Clemens, was arrived today, he is also coming here for the competition.

2012 February 17

Trained with a singaporean, Renerd. We did some good diving training and safty training, especially in variable weight in the morning and afternoon, not too deep, only 35m, but I think I can find the way easy to be the energy save mode.

2012 February 14

AIDA2,3 with JP and Bernard
Trained with Bernerd, Jean Pol, and afternoon near the end of training Andre joined us. Did some safty training, variable weight at 37m, CWT at 38m, easy dive, I was allowed to 35m.