Dahab Winter Time

Since two days I am back in Dahab...it is wonderful.
My little sister is living at my house and is doing her PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course.
I did a wonderful 48m freedive back at Blue Hole today. In the evening I went for a night dive with my lil sister. On Scuba :-) well, I have to say it was very nice.

Judge in Berlin

Last Saterday (15.11.08) I was invited to the 11th Night of Apnea in Berlin. Not as a athlete - I was invited as a judge.
For me it was to first time working as a judge and I was quite nervous in the beginnig.
When I arrived at the pool many memories from the past came to my mind.
The first time I was here was at the 2nd Night of Apnea and I was 13 years old...the youngest competitor of the world. Strange...it´s been already 9 years.

I was judging with Christoph Leschinski and Hans Pütz. At the Static Part of the Competition they took me into the middle to see how I was doing. My first athlete was Wolle Neugebauer and a static attempt.
Everything went very good. I just had to disqualify one person because of a wrong surface protocol. The dynamic competiton was also very good and all athletes at my lane did a great performance. It was a very nice and interesting weekend.

Zugspitze

Another beautiful day at Lake "Starnberger See"...in front of germanys highest mountain the "Zugspitze". In a few days I probably go for a fun freedive here.

Bavaria Blue

Yesterday night we arrived at Percha at Lake "Starnberger See" to do some deep dives.

This morning we prepared our platfrom whitch is more like a houseboat with filling station.

It is very nice to be home in bavaria (the south of germany) - The water is clear and the sky is blue. Look like a perfect day!

RTL Report

RTL Report about the record attempt:

Viva Espania - but no time for freediving

Just sitting here in Cadiz/Spain in the hotel lobby. Almost the whole week I was on one of our boats here and unfortunadly I could'nt freedive at all. The reason was that all the time we had to work and no time for anchoring somewhere. Also the underwater conditions in the atlantic are not so good as thought. Aleast I saw some dolphins and this was very great. I never saw wild dolphins before.

Anyhow...we had a great time here in Cadiz and we are very happy to spend the last night in a hotel.

Just got a photo of my new sofa from nikki:

Off to Cadiz/Spain

Just about to finish my packing. Now I´m off to Cadiz/Spain...

5 Minutes

Todays goal was 5 minutes and I reached it again very easy.
I also got this special feeling back after that static session. Almost forgot that static really can be fun :-)
The rest of the pool session I spend with empty-lung-dives down to 5m which felt quite good.
Just came from the gym...had a very nice workout there :-)
Unfortunadly our flight to spain is delayed by two days. the reason is that our diving boat has to fight with very bad sea conditions. the good thing is that I can have some more static sessions until friday. But still - I already can hear the calling of the sea. My monofin is already on the diving boat ;-)

Special THANKS to ELIOS-SUB for my new 3mm Suit

Pool Training and new goals

After work I went into our pool for a static session with my new suit.
The todays goal was four minutes witch I reached easy.
Time to make new goals for the winter...During the winter I will try to reach the 7min mark. It´s gonna be a hard way because I did´nt trained static since almost 2 years.

Official Surface Camera

The official surface camera shots of my record attempt: