http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/News/feed.xml Glenn Venghaus Freediving Newsfeed http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 25th January 2007 ( 01:29:52 PM ) After a long time out of the picture and lots of failed dives, Herbert Nitsch managed to amaze the freediving world by a massive comeback during the last team world championships. There he set a new constant weight worldrecord with a perfect dive to -111m and shortly after the competition he bumped Tom Sietas from the static mountain by doing a 9'04'' static. Check out his website www.herbertnitsch.com for news about his coming projects. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:29:52 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 31st August 2006 ( 05:27:28 PM ) And last but not least on the 30th October Tom set the static worldrecord at an amazing 9 minutes !!!!! He is THE man ......... Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:27:28 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 28th August 2006 ( 09:49:22 AM ) This weekend Tom Sietas set 2 new worldrecords in the dynamic disciplines.First an amazing 183 meter no-fins followed by a jaw dropping 223 meter with bi-fins. Again he proves he is the king of dynamics.Congratulations Tom !!! Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:49:22 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 22nd May 2006 ( 09:21:04 PM ) As of the 21st of May, I recieved my instructor status of the Umberto Pelizzari Apnea Academy International. Together with my co instructors Pieter Buis and Peter Wurschy from Apnea Team Amsterdam, I will start offering freedive courses this summer. More about this soon. Mon, 22 May 2006 12:21:04 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Tuesday 09th May 2006 ( 11:06:47 PM ) Today Carlos Coste set a new world record in the discipline Variable Weight with a spectacular depth of 140 meter in a time of 4'14'' See some pictures here: http://www.apneaamsterdam.com/forum/index.php/topic,94.0.html Tue, 09 May 2006 14:06:47 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 23rd April 2006 ( 11:20:41 AM ) And just if you think you have heard and seen it all...She just did 200 meter dynamic with fins !!!!!!!!! Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:20:41 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 22nd April 2006 ( 03:51:01 PM ) Unfortunately the DNF record has been declared not valid since she grabbed the side of the pool while immersed. Still a great performance Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:51:01 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 22nd April 2006 ( 01:24:00 PM ) She just did 134 meter dynamic no fins , which is another world record........... Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:24:00 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 22nd April 2006 ( 10:41:06 AM ) Today at the Russian National championships Natalia Molchanova broke her own static worldrecord with an amazing time of 7'20'' She still has to do dynamics today ....... Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:41:06 -0700 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 02nd April 2006 ( 10:35:30 AM ) On April 1st 2006 Martin Stepanek reset the world record constant weight to a depth of 106 meter. This is just the firts of a range of record attempts Matrin and Mandy-Rae will do at the Sink Faze event they organised on the Cayman Islands. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:35:30 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 15th March 2006 ( 09:47:47 PM ) After first upping his own world record in Dynamic Apnea Without Fins in Maribor on the 3rd of March to 176 meters, Tom Sietas broke it again in Japan on the 14th of March with an amazing 180 meters. This man seems unbeatable (with training personal bests of 221 meters no fins and 250 meter with fins !!!) Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:47:47 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 05th March 2006 ( 08:56:23 PM ) On 28 feb 2006 Carlos Coste performed a succesfull CW dive in a lake at an altitude of 3800 meters to a depth of -56 meters. Check out some more details and pictures at http://www.apnea-amsterdam.com/forum/index.php/topic,64.0.html Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:56:23 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 24th December 2005 ( 12:48:12 AM ) I wish everybody a happy Christmas and a very healthy and fruitfull 2006 , with lots of freediving fun and glory. Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:48:12 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 21st December 2005 ( 09:37:14 PM ) Yesterday in Tokyo, Japan, Nathalia Molchanova broke her own World Record dynamics without fins of 124m with a new distance of 131 meters. This makes it her 9th worldrecord this year !!!! Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:37:14 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 03rd December 2005 ( 12:58:31 AM ) In the winter 2005 issue of the new glossy Dutch travel magazine 'Columbus', you can read an interview I gave in october about freediving. You cab find the article here : http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/articles/Columbus.pdf Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:58:31 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 23rd November 2005 ( 03:56:03 PM ) testing Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:56:03 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 07th November 2005 ( 05:50:28 AM ) Yesterday the Dahab Tripple Depth competition ended. Here Natalia Molchanova captured the 2 remaining world records with a Free Immersion dive to 78 meters and a Constant Weight no-fins dive to 55 meter. Now she holds (AIDA recognition pending) all worldrecords in all AIDA competition disciplines and fixed her place in history for ever. Unbelievable............. Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:50:28 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 23rd October 2005 ( 10:12:45 AM ) Today I managed to break the current Dutch national record Dynamic Apnea with fins and reset it to 137 meters. Was not easy but I am a happy man ;-), also because now I own all national records in the pool disciplines. Cooool. In the same event , organised by Roger Keizer from www.waves.nu, Nanja van den Broek reset the women national record with 116 meters. Also my girlfriend Patricia Ribas did a new personal best with 85 meters. Next events, Wiesbaden and Hungary...... Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:12:45 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 25th September 2005 ( 03:54:52 AM ) Tom Sietas tried toget into the guiness book of records by breaking the record static on oxygen (13:49min) on TV. He missed it by a couple of seconds. You can download a HQ version (90MB 640x480 WM9) of the show here : http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/media/movies/Tom_Guiness.zip Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:54:52 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Tuesday 13th September 2005 ( 11:17:33 AM ) I have made available a video , which I shot of the men finals dynamics with fins in Renens during the AIDA Worldcup. You can find it here : http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/media/movies/WK2005_DYN_men_finals.zip It is about 40Mb in size Enjoy.... Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:17:33 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 11th September 2005 ( 03:08:26 PM ) Phoeoo, the storm is over and the AIDA individual world championships have passed. Lots of great results and new world records. Also surprices and sad moments but that is all in the game of an large sport event. I for one was very happy and fortunate to be part of it (although i did not make it to the constant weight event in Nice). You can find the official results here : Renens : http:/www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/articles/off.aida.res.ren.pdf Nice : http:/www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/articles/Nice_men.jpg http:/www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/articles/Nice_woman.JPG My aricle and lots of pictures about Renens you can find in my gallery. http:/gallery.glennvenghaus.com Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:08:36 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 11th July 2005 ( 11:06:07 AM ) Last weekend at the Hellas Summer Games Tom Sietas set 2 incredible new world records. 212 meters in Dynamics (was 200m) and 175 meter dynamics without fins (was 166m). Congratulations Tom !!!! just amazing..... Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:06:07 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 12th June 2005 ( 12:10:10 PM ) Today Tom Sietas , already a legend with his static performances , achieved his long standing personal goal by doing 10 minutes static in training. He is the first man allive to break this for all other humans impossible barrier. My big congratulations and warm hart to Tom for his contribution to freediving as a sport. Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:10:10 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 02nd May 2005 ( 09:45:12 AM ) Its done !!!!! I have made the Dutch selection for the World Champions in the disciplines Static and Dynamics without fins ;-) The last I presume was due to my unexpected latest developments and national record in this discipline. The pool events will take place in Lausanne and the deep event in Nice (see agenda). The complete Dutch selection consists of : Men Kars van Kouwen (STA) Pim Vermeulen (CW) Haico Aaldering (DYN, DNF, CW) Fred Steegstra (DYN) Glenn Venghaus (STA,DNF) Women Nanja v/d Broek (CW,STA,DYN,DNF) Susan Kluytmans (CW,STA) Renate de Bruijn (DYN,DNF) Mon, 02 May 2005 09:45:12 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 17th April 2005 ( 02:53:17 PM ) Tonight at the local dynamics competition in Heemstede in the Netherlands I had a very good day and broke the old National Record in the no-fins discipline (107 meter by Haico Aaldering) with a new distance of 114 meters in a time of 2'06''. This is also 33 meters !! more then my old personal best I did in January this year. Don't need to mention how extremely happy I am with this performance ;-) A good way to close of the indoor season. Hopefully my latest progressions also affect my outdoor performances in a similar way......... Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:53:17 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 15th April 2005 ( 08:39:57 AM ) To close of the Cayman event , Martin Stepanek did a -136meters Variable Balast dive today, beating the current record with 1 meter. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:39:57 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 10th April 2005 ( 07:28:45 AM ) Today Martin Stepanek made an incredible Constant Weight without fins dive to -80m !!! A amazing new worldrecord (pending AIDA recognition) Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:28:45 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 09th April 2005 ( 03:24:29 AM ) Yesterday april 8th , Mandy-Rae Cruickshank set a new worldrcord in Constant Weight without fins with a dive to -50 meters in 2min 8sec Sat 09 Apr 2005 03:24:29 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 21st March 2005 ( 08:45:24 AM ) Well almost 2 moths have past and 3 competitions during which i have made some personal developments. The most important one is that I switched back to bi-fins (C4-30) for Dynamics, which suits me more. This move has been very succesfull in that at each competition I improved my personal best to now a 112 Meters at the last competition in Paris (after beeing very ill for 1 week). I feel that this progress will rapidly continue..... This , combined with a good static of 6:06 also gave me a 3rd place at the Berlin Masters Cup in february. Finally I start to like dynamics ;-) Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:45:24 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 29th January 2005 ( 01:26:51 AM ) Yesterday at the second Shark Bait organised competition in Eindhoven, this time in the discipline dynamic without fins, Haico Aaldering broke the long standing Dutch National record with an easy looking 100meters. I managed to come in second with 81 meters. He is now the holder of all but one National Records. The static record still belongs to me ;-) Congratulations Haico !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:26:51 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 25th December 2004 ( 06:21:24 AM ) To all my freedive friends around the world a merry christmas and a very happy new year with lots of personal, national and world records ! Of course this all with a perfect health , lots of love and sencere friendship. Kisses , Glenn Venghaus Sat, 25 Dec 2004 06:21:24 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 19th December 2004 ( 02:16:22 PM ) Today at 1230h local time in Hamburg, Tom Sietas set a new German record in dynamic with fins. He did an incredible 215m (actually 215.9) dive in 3'19'' in a 25m pool and surfaced very clean, a PB for him. He used C4 Falcon 40 bi-fins and the same wetsuit and weights, like yesterday. He got one white card and one yellow card on his performance. One of the judges thought that he hadn't got his heels properly on the wall at the 100m turn. So a 10m penalty (5 points) remains until the judges make a final decision after video analysis. There were spectators who claimed that he did the turn right, and Tom himself said that he didn't feel anything wrong at any turn. Even if he didn't get his heels properly on the wall once, we should keep in mind that it's rather a disadvantage than a benefit because it only decreases the impulse on the push off, but rules are rules. Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:16:22 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 19th December 2004 ( 02:15:08 PM ) Today at 1250h local time in Hamburg, Tom Sietas set a new German record in dynamic without fins. Old record: 112m by Wolfram Neugebauer New record: 175m by Tom Sietas in 3'33'' in a 25m pool He surfaced really fresh and clean. It seemed to be a walk in the park for him. He used a 3mm Elios smoothskin wetsuit and 10kg weight to be perfectly ballanced. His preparation was pretty much the same he uses for static: A 12 minute breathe up routine that includes a full packing 4 minutes before top. It took him 3 armstrokes each 25m. Tomorrow he's going for the dynamic with fins record which is currently his at 186m. Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:15:08 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 19th November 2004 ( 03:30:16 PM ) Today the Dutch National Record Static Apnea was broken during the 1st Static Night in Eindhoven. The new record time is now 6:45 min , a clean 26 seconds more than the previous record held by Kars van Kouwen , a close friend of mine. And guess what ... IT WAS ME ;-) Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:30:16 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 28th October 2004 ( 04:54:50 AM ) Oct.27.04, Puerta La Cruz, Venezuela - At 11:25am Carlos Coste descended to 135 meters by sled and returned under his own power in 4:36. The dive was clean at the surface and the athlete gave the OK signal within 20 seconds of surfacing. Video documentation on the sled, bottom plate and surface are all in order. A second official surface camera was also used but did not capture the inital descent due to camera malfunction. The doping test was taken at 14:10pm and the attending judges have indicated that they will be recommending the attempt for final ratification. Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:54:50 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 27th October 2004 ( 10:33:47 AM ) Good news from the official AIDA web page (under news): http://www.aida-international.org/news1.htm Tom SIETAS (Germany) during his World Record attempt made on June 11th, 2004 : - POSITIVE results for METOPROLOL (beta-blocker) - Redress procedure requested by the athlete, asking for sample "B" analysis - NEGATIVE results on sample "B" analysis - FInal decision of the AIDA Disciplinary Commission in progress Sam STILL (Great Britain) during the "AIDA World Team Championsip" in Canada : - POSITIVE for PREDNISONE (corticosteroid) - Redress procedure requested by the athlete, asking for sample "B" analysis - NEGATIVE results on sample "B" 1st analysis - POSITIVE results on sample "A" 2nd analysis (WADA counter-expertise) - NEGATIVE results on sample "B" 2nd analysis (WADA counter-expertise) - Internal enquiry about this "World Premiere" whithin the WADA Laboratory - Final decision of the AIDA Disciplinary Commission in progress Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:33:47 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 25th October 2004 ( 06:28:53 AM ) From Deeperblue: Venezuela, October 23, 2004 -At approximately 12:15 pm Oct 23, Carlos Coste achieved 136 meters in Variable Ballast, riding a weighted sled into the depths of the Carribean sea and returning to the surface under his own power in 4:08 seconds. The performance was clean and beat the current record of 120 meters handily however unfortunately both of the offical surface cameras did not document the dive sufficiently for ratification. As a result the dive will not count as a world record. Carlos will reattempt the world record Wednesday Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:28:53 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 13th October 2004 ( 02:09:19 PM ) New streaming movie section featuring one of my latest underwater movie productions filmed in Komodo National Park (in scuba ). Enjoy..... Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:09:19 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 29th September 2004 (10:59:33 AM) October 30th Loic Leferme will attempt to break the current No-Limits world record (his own)with a target depth of -163 meter. He will do this in Nice France judged by AIDA international judges. Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:59:33 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 18th September 2004 ( 05:30:08 AM ) Today the entire website has been moved to a new hosting provider. Please report any problems you might experience to problems@glennvenghaus.com If you are hosting a link to my site please update it to http://www.glennvenghaus.com. Sat, 18 Sep 2004 05:30:08 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 13th September 2004 ( 12:19:35 PM ) Herbert fine tuned his last World Record yesterday to a fine 66 meters Constant Weight no fins. Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:19:35 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 12th September 2004 ( 03:55:25 PM ) Today Herbert Nitsch set the Constant Weight without fins world record at 62 meters in Spetses Greece. He will try and extend this to 70 meters this week. More news to follow...... Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:55:25 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 11th September 2004 ( 01:59:42 PM ) Today Matin Stepanek set a new world record constant weight (pending recognition ) of -103 meters. He did this in a time of 3 minutes and 30 seconds at the Bios World recor event in Spetses Greece. Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:59:42 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 11th September 2004 ( 01:55:52 PM ) Currently there is an investigation going on about a positive drug test from Tom Sietas after his world record in July. Final conclusion still pending. More info on www.tomsietas.com Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:55:52 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 12th August 2004 ( 11:24:29 PM ) Yesterday at the AIDA worldcup after the official static competition, Tom Sietas did a world record attempt and comfortably did an inhuman 9'24'', breaking his own world record. He then was disqualified because all his teammates embraced him. Later it turned out this was intentionally, since he already has arranged sponsorship for an official record attempt event later this year. Funny guy ;-) Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:24:29 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 11th August 2004 ( 10:16:45 PM ) Today the German team proved superior over all teams by doing 3 superb statics of 7'10'', 6'38'' and 6'33''. Together with their CW dives of 70m, 64m and 64m this confirmed their clear and predicted victory. The team consists of Tom Sietas (current WR holder statics), Hubert Maier and Dominique Ventzke Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:16:45 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 07th August 2004 ( 12:00:52 AM ) This week until aug 12th the AIDA Teams freediving worldcup is being held in Vancouver. See http://www.aidaworlds2004.com/news.html ,http://www.deeperblue.net or http://www.freediver.co.uk for on-site reports from the event. For reports from the Dutch team check out the forum on http://www.nfdb.org Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:00:52 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 01st August 2004 ( 11:57:43 PM ) Today myself and 3 Dutch team mates attended the 2nd part of the Belgium Cup 2004. This involved a free immersion competition and a optional constant weight dive in La Roche Fontaine. We all set new personal bests. Kars van Kouwen set a new Dutch National Record CW of 42 meters and Caroline Berghuis set a vacant FI national record at 27 meters (both pending approval). Roland van den Akker overcame his longlasting equalisation problems by finishing with a nice 35 meters CW . I did a 35 meters FI and a 36 meters CW, both new PB's. So a very succesfull day for all of us, with lots of thanks to our Belgium friends for making this possible. Sun, 01 Aug 2004 23:57:43 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 08th July 2004 ( 11:37:31 AM ) On the 6th of July , Pierre Frolla from Monaco did a beautifull Variable Balast dive in Nice to 123 meter in 3:04. Unfortunately he was not in time to get it registered as a new world record by AIDA, but AIDA France stepped in to make it an official French national record (deeper then the current world record !!!) Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:37:31 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 21st June 2004 ( 04:05:12 PM ) New Worldrecords set in Cyprus !!! : Constant Weight (M) Carlos Coste 102 meter Dynamics with fins (F) Johanna Nordblad 158 meter Static (F) Lotta Ericson 6'31'' For photos of the Cyprus competition check out the new photogallery section Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:05:12 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 07th June 2004 ( 09:00:52 PM ) From thu June 10th we will be in Cyprus for the Bios Freeology Freedive Competition 2004, the worlds biggest freediving event ever held. Check out the daily logbook of our adventures: http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/News/CyprusReloaded.php Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:00:52 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 03rd June 2004 ( 07:52:35 PM ) From fri 28th May till mon 31 May 2004 we attended the 2nd Swiss recreational freedive meet in Vale de Maggia Switserland. Here a report and some photos: http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/articles/Maggia2004.php Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:52:35 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 17th May 2004 ( 12:55:24 PM ) Saturday we competed in the 5th Open Swiss Indoor freedive championship. For the first time I managed to do a good static in a competition. My hart rate was still much higher then normal, but I managed to do a 5min58 and this was good for the gold medal. Dynamics with fins I aborted due to stomach cramps and dynamics without fins (first time in competition and never did more the 25meter in training due to lack of interest) I did an ok 62 meters (without pushing it). I found a new interest in this discipline, whereby the general feeling comes much closer to static then my current monofin swim. Patricia aborted her static after a mistimed preparation en general feeling of "not today", but did a nice 50 meter dynamics with fin after being stuck with her mono in the start line and struggling under water for at least 10 second. Most people would give up after this, but she showed character. Was surprisingly good for silver because most of the competition went into LMC. Mon, 17 May 2004 12:55:24 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 14th May 2004 ( 09:50:15 AM ) On Thursday evening it happened.... My Dutch National record static apnea of 6:03 was broken by a fellow freediver Peter Wurschy who, together with Pieter Buis, had organised this record event in our favourite static training pool in Haarlem. Pieter, who was first to have a go at it unfortunately had a heavy samba at around 6:15 and was pulled out by the safety diver. Further attempts stayed without success. Peter on the other hand did a very clean and tactical 6:08 on his first attempt followed by a very good (but close) 6:16. A well-deserved new record I must admit. But then again,records are there to be broken................. Fri, 14 May 2004 09:50:15 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 26th April 2004 ( 09:37:51 AM ) Sunday 25 feb, Patricia myself and 8 other Dutch freedivers attended the indoor freediving competition in Huy Belgium. Strong varing results among the Dutch delegation. Myself, I aborted my static at 4 minutes, caused by a changed and mistimed breathup combined with lack of wilpower to fight, but had a new PB at dynamics with mono of 94 meter. This also after a modified warmup routine. Patricia had her first samba at static and it was a beauty ;-) Kars van Kouwen unfortunately blacked out at an attempt to break the Dutch national record dynamic no fins at 100 meters but won the static comp with a nice 5'58''. Highlight was the battle of the titans, between Renate de Bruyn (Dutch current world record holder dynamic no fins at 100 meters) and Yamina Enedahl-Mekki (Swedisch former record holder). Yamina could not break Renates world record followed by Renate resetting it to a massive 104 meters. Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:37:51 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Tuesday 06th April 2004 ( 04:25:08 PM ) Now in the video downloads section, Martin Stepanek's 100m "training" dive from the Caymans event , which unfortunately he could not repeat for the officcial world record attempt. Still great to look at...... Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:25:08 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 27th March 2004 ( 12:55:29 PM ) Today, after 3 weeks of gradual progression, I made a new PB dry statics of 7 minutes. I used 4 attempts to do this : - 1st no timekeeping - 2nd 3:30 min - 3rd 5:00 min - 4th 7:00 min The next goal is to repeat this wet.... Go here to see the cardiogram / O2 curve http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/media/7minStatic_O2_BPM.php Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:55:29 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 25th March 2004 ( 11:24:50 AM ) Martin's 102m Free Immersion WR video is now downloadable in the video download section. Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:24:50 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Thursday 25th March 2004 ( 12:16:04 AM )As of today a new section is online, where you can download the most important freediving video shots of world records or other amazing dives. As good video material is still rare in the freediving world (getting better, look at the latest video of Mandy-Rae's world record), it is still small. More to come as it becomes available. Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:16:04 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Wednesday 24th March 2004 ( 10:00:09 AM )Yesterday it was Martin Stepanek's turn to blast a worldrecord. This time in the discipline Free Immersion and reset it an an amazing -102M, crossing the magical -100M boundary. Soon the video of this dive online here........ Mandy failed an attempt at -84M Constant Weight due to equalisation problems and has one attempt left. Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:00:00 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Monday 22nd March 2004 ( 11:05:12 AM )Mandy-Rae Cruickshank obliterated Tanya Streeters old Constant Weight record of -70M by a whopping 8 meters setting it at -78M. Acording to AIDA regulations she can try 2 more times with max 3 meters increment , so she could potentialy set it at -84M this week. We will see.... Martin unfortunately failed at his first -100M CW attempt. Going up he switched at -30M to free immersion style when he did not feel good anymore. He did not black out or samba, but of course the attempt was not valid. He will try again this week. Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:05:12 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3Sunday 21st March 2004 ( 12:38:15 PM )Today is the first big day of the official record attempts after a great week in which Martin did 100m CW and 102m FI and Mandy 77m CW and 69m FI. Lets hope they can do this under the eyes of the international judges the comming days... Keep you posted. Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:00:09 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Sunday 21st March 2004 ( 12:35:01 PM ) Turns out that Stephane did NOT give an OK sign within 20 seconds as stated by the AIDA rules. Procedural mistakes on the side of the official on-site judges, combined with failure to provide the required video material on time, made way for the events and speculations as they unfolded in the last days. Of course this does not take away anything of the amazing result achieved by this great athlete. Martin Stephanek will have a tough time beating this........ Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:35:01 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Saturday 20th March 2004 (12:34:32 PM ) Stephane Mifsud's was informed that AIDA will not recognize his 8'24" static record. Read the full story at http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?threadid=43084 Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:34:32 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Tuesday 16th March 2004 ( 12:27:21 AM ) Athletes from the Performance Freediving team are currently training in the Cayman Islands working to best four world records between March 21st to 27th. Mandy-Rae Cruickshank (Canada) and Martin Stepanek (Czech Republic) will be attempting world records in the disciplines of constant ballast and free immersion.Read original report and daily progress reports (incl video) on http://www.performancefreediving.com./news/news_2004.html Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:27:21 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 05th March 2004 ( 04:39:21 PM )Both myself and my girlfriend/freedivebuddy Patricia Ribas are now on for Cyprus. Flight's and hotel has been booked. 3 month's to go and lots of training to do, but looking at the competitors list , it will be a great event. Now also AIDA approved ;-)Competitors list and further info at http://freediver.co.uk/foc2004 Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:39:21 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 27th February 2004 ( 01:34:29 PM ) On below site you can find all the latest info on the AIDA World Freediving Championship in Vancouver this August http://www.aidaworlds2004.com/intro.html Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:34:29 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 27th February 2004 ( 12:26:50 AM ) AIDA Belgium is organising a National indoor competition (with guests), Coupe de Belgique 2004. WR attempts in Static and Dynamic are possible ! Date: sunday 25th April 2004 Location: Swimming pool of Huy (25m) Inscriptions:www.aidabelgique.be Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:26:50 -0800 http://www.glennvenghaus.com/freediving/index.php?Location=3 Friday 27th February 2004 ( 12:18:57 AM ) On 21 Feb 2004 I went with Patricia W. Ribas to the Berlin Masters cup. I had reasonable result but still too much competition stress. Have to work on that. Static 5:03 Dyn 78m Patricia did well above expected and did 2 PR's. Static 4:00 Dyn 57m. Now back to more training for Huy (Belgium) in April. Greetzzz, Glenn Venghaus Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:18:57 -0800