Team Sharkbait

This is a post by Jorg Jansen.

We had another pool training yesterday. First time for me doing static without goggles. I even decided to stop using a breath-up technique to increase the CO2 in my body before going down. It takes some getting used too in the coming weeks. Especially to get relaxed in the mind again. Also  the water is very high up in my nose during static, and as I’m not used to that, it makes relaxing difficult.

At the end I did 3 statics without preparation. 2 minutes was the max time, but I was so high on Co2 and really not relaxed. Lets see how it goes the next time. Sanne also did a no warm up no breath-up static. The pool was even hotter than last time. So when he made the sign that he was very hot after holding his breath for over 4 minutes I made a practical joke and he had to laugh and came up at 4:10. He made it look easy!

Dynamic training was next. After a few 25 meter laps with my Gara 2000 fins(who are almost celebrating their 12th birthday!) doing monofin style kicking, it was time for the mono-fin. First two laps were the same as usual. Felt pretty good, not much upper-body movement and going fast.

But then Sanne made the comment that I should take it much easier. After doing a few easy and slow 25 meter laps, Sanne told me it looked great. I needed 24 seconds for a 25 meter lap in 8 amplitudes and it felt sooo easy. Did a total of 6 different techniques for testing it. Kick and glide, arms besides the body, etc, etc. In the end Sanne and I decided that I should stick to the 8 amplitude kick for the coming weeks and see how it goes from there.

Next week I’m going to continue with this technique training and also do some longer laps then 25 meters. Normally I got an uncomfortable feeling with dynamic at around 35-40 meters, bifins and monofin. So I’m curious how it will go with this technique. Can’t wait to test it!