08.03.2009

Oslo Ice Challenge - the worlds first freedive competition under ice



Just a quick one from Oslo. The competition is over and all are warm and safe. For an organizer/judge this is the most important.

But I must admit, apart from being cold and wet, it was a lot of fun.

For you to have an idea of the set up here comes the video:



We had three competition dives. Since the deepest dive counts and we weighted CNF with 1.35 points per meter, Stig was taking the lead by diving 41 meter CNF leaving Christian Maldame and Guillaume Nery with their 52 meter CWT dives behind.

That was making things much more interesting for today as 52 meter was the maximum depth. So, we saw a lot of CNF today.

After both Christian Ernest and Christian Maldame went to 42m Guillaume Nery went to 45 without fins. But Stig had announced 52m and therefore came last.

Well, he was kind of surprising everyone by showing up in his speedos like Thomas Grindevoll yesterday. After diving in he went down to about 21 m and turned, making quite a show of it like he had just made a world record.

So we knew then who was first but the second and third place had to be decided in the viking static. The two Christians went head to head. Christian Maldame came up 3'38" and Christian Ernest after 4'02". So the competition was decided.


Everyone had a lot of fun and I know this is something I will tell me children about.

But now I need to sleep....
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5 Kommentare:

  1. Hanli Prinsloo09.03.2009, 00:49:00

    Well done! What a great event! Hope it becomes annual, I'd love to be there next time!
    Hugs, Hanli

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  2. martin_gk09.03.2009, 11:18:00

    Thats great! We will need more judges as I'm sure there will be more crazy freedivers next time.

    And you sure are crazy enough to do this kind of thing. Would love to have you around.

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  3. martin_gk09.03.2009, 11:30:00

    PS: Is that my head you are wearing in the profile picture?

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  4. Anonym10.03.2009, 09:56:00

    Hi Martin. Very nice, but there was not the worlds first freedive competition under ice. We had on in Poland in 2006. Here is the gallery http://www.freediving.com.pl/galeria.php?dzial=imprezy&sub_dir=2006_02_11_-_Extremall_Pulek

    BR Radek

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  5. martin_gk10.03.2009, 14:12:00

    Shit, Radek, why did you not tell me earlier? Was this an AIDA ranked competition? I did not find any thing about it.

    It looks like you guys had a lot of fun as well... Great pictures!

    Where was it?

    Are you planning to do anything the like again in the future?

    Why did you not come for the OIC?

    Questions, questions, questions...

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