Good decision. Competing is one but enjoying freediving is more importend. Hope to see you in Maarsseveen in juni for some fun dives ;-)

Ciao Peter

@Danny: Nice to meet you as well and I couldn’t agree more when you say that the most of freediving comes down to freediving with yourself as opponent or ally. I’ll be working on this and hope to find some rest in the fact Eric put away the DNF record pretty far ;)

@Eric: I’m open for suggestions, observations and criticism so do not apologize ;). It helps me to know people are reading my blogs and they help me in my way of freediving. And you’re right to have noticed my determination in just competing and doing so at comfortable levels and not challenging myself.

I’m sorry the competition didn’t work out for you again.

I noticed something after your static and dynamic and I know this does not sound nice and maybe even sarcastic. I assure you it is not ment that way!

But after both performanced you had (as far as I could tell) the right attitude that you might have been looking for before the competition. You looked a bit down obviously but most of all you looked strong, knowing what you want and most of all determined to do what you enjoyed most.

Eric

It was great meeting you and like I told you in Eindhoven, I have been reading bits of your blog since I started freediving in 2007, saw your training video’s, learning off your training approach etc. Your way of training and the passion that you have for the sport and offcourse your performances makes you one of the top freedivers in the Netherlands. And now I read that you want to “stop” competing for a while, I think that’s o.k., But now comes the hard part. I believe that 40% of freediving is physical, training your body to perform at it’s best when neccesary, and 60% of it is mental, learning to deal with your mind and its thoughts. Freediving for me is pushing myself to the limit both physically and especcially mentally and they both need training, they both need to grow, need to develop and finaly come together in balance. For there is only one opponent when you hold your breath and that’s you (‘re mind). Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. I hope you find your way, untill we meet again,

good luck to you,

Danny Martherus

I will post the story after this comment, so you can read what you expected :P

That’s exactly what I’m gonna do indeed, focus on method instead of result.

I had a good time coaching you both and didn’t think your static sucked, it was an all new way of doing static for you both.

Yeah let me know for thursday!

ps I’m gonna try and make training on thursday but I’ll txt u and let you know if I can’t…..cheers