Freediving blog
When people tell me that I have a natural talent in freediving, I tend to nod in silence, but really, deep down I don’t agree, and I feel my past experiences and hard work are somewhat diminished by the word “talent”.
Whilst my ego agrees it’s nice to feel you have somehow been infused with godliness at birth, on the contrary I feel very human and my ‘talent’ is only a consequence of my hard work (hard skills) and past experiences (soft skills).
The longer freediving tests my patience, the more I am getting tiny, but very sweet gains.
God is in the details they say, and only now that I have repeated 80m about 80 times, I finally start to understand and feel and change some subtle details that I are making a huge difference in my confidence with the depth.
I love freediving for a number of reasons, one of them is the fact that I have become a master in relaxation.
I kind of consider my life as before freediving (BF) and after freediving (AF) and after freediving, I have really mastered my way to relaxation, how to get in the zone, space out, and relax only with the aid of my breath and power of mind.
Beside technique, relaxation is the very fundamental of freediving. Even our ability to equalize depends on our ability to relax and let go. The deeper we want to go, the more we have to let go.
