Today it was the static day. Out of 11 people that made an announcement (static is not that popular is it?) only 8 managed to compete, since the others came to the pool announcing an unexpected (and convenient) dodgy belly when they woke up. They did look very upset about not competing, with their beers in their hands while dancing at the other end of the pool.
So Lotta, who is the only person in the world to actually likes doing static, in order not to leave any breaks in between official tops decided fill them by doing static herself. She had two goes, but then she skipped the last one, which was her actual official top.
Most impressive performance was Jana, who thanks to the outstanding coaching of Alexey pulled off an amazing 2.32, of which she was obviously very proud.
Our newbie southafrican John (who is now highly ranked in my list of ex students who embarrassed me most) went easily to 6 minutes, but due mainly to inexperienced pushy coaching came up too late (6.23) and kept taking off his noseclip 25 times before he managed to fuck up his surface protocol. Just to be sure that he got a red card, his coach kept touching him the whole time during his struggle to stay awake, or maybe she just fancy him badly and couldn't restrain herself.
Here John before he lost his dignity, when he still knew he had 1 noseclip only.
Here John after, when he was upset for the loss of the other 24 noseclips.
However, the gold medal goes to Alexey of course, who doesn't really give a shit about doing good times, or winning.
No, he only likes to piss off the others who obviously have no chance to win anything when he's around.
Look at how pissy Mike got when he figured he got second after him.
Let me tell you, Alexey doesn't have many friends left, and I hear rumors of sabotaging plans against him.
I think I heard something about mutiny on the platform during his dives, and kidnap the judges and the official surface camera. If somebody must kidnap me I hope he's at least hot and rich and that he will ask for a very high ransom that nobody can afford to pay so he has to keep me forever.
Here the other results of our amazing noname competition.
1.alexey molchanov- rus- 6.49
2.mike wells- aus- 6.33
3.kathryn mcphee- nz- 5.25
4.lotta ericson- swe- 5.16
5.stuart bond- uk- 5.04
6.jana strain- can- 2.32
7.karsten schneider- 3.05, yellow, short
As for the official training, we're done, and tomorrow the real comp is starting.
We had a couple of fun days on the sled, during which some of the athletes trained some depth adaptation, while some others were just having fun.
Even I had a go, first with George, which I chickened out half way (how embarrassing!), which was actually a good thing, because I went again on my own just after, and I got so badly narked (shallower and shallower every time) that I don't want to be responsible for other people down there when I'm in that state.
The beautiful picture of me, my sled and my finger was shot by Mike, and i hope he doesn't mind the fact that i stole it from his facebook album. If he does and complain, i'll give him a red card.
Serbian/Swedish Gordon, who is one of our oldest freediving friends, is now coached by Sara, who during TD is also going to be the shortest safety diver ever (I'm trying to convince John to black out at 20m, because I want to see her picking him up, since he's just around double her height, and it's gonna be fun). So Gordon is obviously using Sara's non-training approach, since not only I've seen him in Blue Hole only once, but he seems to be doing all sorts of activities other than freediving. The other day we went together on a bike ride in the desert, which was very funky and I totally understand why he'd rather do that instead than holding his breath and endure contractions.
So, for next year's events, in addition to the freediving/climbing weeks (called "go vertical") we're planning freediving/biking weeks (which I want to call "go horizontal", since I have the tendency to fall a lot, but then we have to go freediving in a pool and do only dynamics).
Here you see the most funky staff of any competition ever. Apart from Ingela of course, who keep haunting and stalking me with her even more massive boobs. And the worst bit is that she's planning to stay in Dahab for 2 months, and if that wasn't enough, it seems that her mother will join her soon.
And above another bit of our staff, little Vera (here with Lotta), who is almost as short as Sara, and if you don't believe that, the next pic will prove it.
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