Team Sharkbait

This is a post by Jorg Jansen.

We just came back from a good pool training. We decided to make it an all out monofin training session and it was great fun and we learned a lot!

First we started with a static at 5 meters depth to get a small warming up again. I started out and was very glad that on the first dive I made it relatively easy to 2 minutes and I was pretty amazed about this time, because I expected it to be much less. And once in a while Sanne does something amazing as well and he did a nice 3:05 minutes static at 5 meters depth and made it look awfully easy. I’m wondering what he can reach when he starts to train seriously again.

Testing the 3 monofins on the left

After the good warmup it was time for monofinning. We brought our collection of 3 monofins and as they ranged from bad to good monofins we decided to test them out and see what the real difference is between each of them. In the end it was pretty clear that the most expensive and heaviest one was the best. For the first time in my life I did a 50 meters as if it was a 25 meters. Really no problem with it at all. Even with such a bad technique as I have.

Sanne and I continued using the monofins  for some time and I think that if we keep using them for the next months maybe something nice will come out of it. Who knows!

After the monofinning I decided to do a quick dynamic without fins, because my feet were already hurting too much from the monofin work. I still managed to do a very easy 1,5 laps and I got my first contraction on the way up. Really have to work on my co2 tolerance, that’s for sure! We will see how it goes tomorrow when we go into the deep with our bifins again.