This is a post by Jorg Jansen.
Now that I’m training again on regular basis, it’s time to set some new goals. The last time I set some goals for freediving training was in 2003 and my latest personal best that I really prepared for is also from that year. So it will be interesting to see how things will go if I start working on technique and performance again.
First of all, what are my old records?
A rare picture: Jorg doing static
Static: 4:35 minutes
It felt like shit and I promised myself afterwords that I would never do this again. At the moment I think I will stick to my promise. But who knows…
Dynamic without fins: ???
I don’t know what I’ve done maximum. But to be honest I don’t think I ever did more then the two laps in our old training pool which is 20 meters long. So I’ll set this at 40 meters. At least one record that I should break fairly easy in the coming weeks.
Dynamic with fins: ???
Again I don’t really know this one for sure either. I can’t remember ever doing 3 laps, which is 75 meter. So I’ll be happy when I do that, I see that as a new personal record.
Constant Weight without fins: 18 meters
Did some recreational stuff, but never to a serious depth. Maybe the deepest was the bottom of our old training lake: 18 meters. So lets try to do something a little bit deeper.
Jorg doing constant weight
Constant Weight: 32 meter
I probably some dives in Egypt around 35-40 meters, but that was just recreational, a little bit of free immersion at the start and going constant weight after a few meters. So that is not fair.
Free Immersion: 36 meter
This is probably one of my favorite disciplines. I just get so much lactic acid in my legs when I use them during freediving, that this one creates such an easy feel.
Variable Weight: 40 meters
Did this one I think in 2002 when I was with Loic Leferme. Felt amazing, would really love to do this more.
Using the sled is great fun!
No Limits: 50 meters
This dive was also done with Loic Leferme in Nice, but the year after. Again, great discipline to try out more.
Other records
The “record” I’m probably most proud of was the one when I was in Egypt during Umberto Pelizzari course in 2005. I was making photos of all the students and at one point Nanja van den Broek was making a no limits dive. I was already underwater hanging around 15 meters before she started. So she dropped down and I was making some photo’s and wanted to go up afterwards. But suddenly I already saw Nanja coming back up, so some more photos were made. When I finally came up Sanne came to me and told me I was down for a long time. I looked on my watch and I was under for 3:37 minutes. Didn’t even notice it.
That’s the way I like to set personal records. Without pushing, just being relaxed. That is probably the reason why I don’t like pool records as much as depth records. You always know how far you are. And with my absolute gruel against contractions, I always come up after 1 or 2 contractions.
In the coming weeks we will see where I can take this. But first things first: technique is on the program first, and afterwards I will try to increase the performance. We will see how it goes.
PS: Yes I know, they are old photos; I still have hair on my head on these.
[...] already thinking about my maximum dry static of 3:35 from 2003, which was around 1 minute less then my best wet static. I even hated dry statics more then wet in that time. At the first contractions I stopped again and [...]