Gaspard Freediving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twE-zdUkB_U

I swear, i though he was talking about freediving training the whole time !

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Freefall alarms are a disaster in terms of relaxation and make us miss the beauty of freediving. Here is how to get rid of it :

1 / check your neutral buyancy depth (ex : 10m)

2 / multiply this number by 2 (ex : 20m)

3 / set the line at the number you got on step 2

4 / perform multiple dives to this target depth while making sure you are not looking down (look only at the line and you should be able to see the surface somewhere in the background).

5 / During this dives, freefall is FORBIDDEN but you should progressively slow down your kick frequency and almost be not moving when you reach the bottom

6 / Remember, freefall is a PROCESS, you can think about it as "freefall asleep"

7 / better start freefalling too late than to early : nothing worst than a too slow freefall that generate mental stress

Contrats for your level 4 certification !

Patience and consistency are paying off !

If depth was emotion it would be hate…

Depth doesn't want you and will push you away from approaching her if your intentions are not pure. Too many have tried, some actually believe they can “master depth”… Fools ! Soon or later, one way or another, depth strikes back and they get punished.

Depth is hate which is not far from love. Approach depth with patience, sincerity and humility : she will let you perceive her true beauty and you will feel welcomed at her side for the time of a dive.

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Freediving is for everyone and superheros do not exist… But it is always fun to pretend to be one!

CO2 TOLERANCE AND CONTRACTIONS

In March 2021, when my coach presented the main lines of the training program that awaited us, I must admit that seeing the “CO2” component appearing did not please me. I like freediving, but I'm not particularly eager to suffer and even less to have contractions (spasms), it was out of the question for me to purposely expose myself to this unpleasant sensation too frequently.

The mistake I made back then was to believe that being tolerant to CO2 meant being able to tolerate and endure the contractions caused by its increase… This is a common mistake in freediving that we will try to debunk here...

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https://gaspardfreediving.com/en/co2-tolerance-and-contractions/

TOLERANCE AU CO2 ET CONTRACTIONS

En Mars 2021 alors que mon coach présentait les grandes lignes du programme d’entrainement qui nous attendait, je doit avouer que de voir apparaitre la composante “CO2” ne m’a pas vraiment fait plaisir : concretement, j’aime l’apnée mais je n’aime pas souffrir et encore moins avoir des contractions (spasmes) et il était hors de question pour moi de chercher à m’exposer trop frequement à cette sensation desagréable.

L’erreur que je commetais alors était de croire qu’être tolérant au CO2 signifiait être capable de tolérer, d’endurer les contraction provoquées par son augmentation… C’est une erreure fréquentes dans le monde de l’apnée que nous allons essayer ici de debunker...

LA SUITE EN SUIVANT LE LIEN
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https://gaspardfreediving.com/tolerance-au-co2-et-contractions/

J’ai toujours pensé que la position neutre/naturelle de la glotte était « ouverte ». Comme beaucoup d’apnéistes, lorsque j’ai rencontré des problèmes de fuites au niveau du mouthfill, j’ai supposé que l’une des causes était que ma glotte n’était pas assez « forte » et que je devais specifiquement l’entrainer.

Cependant, il y a deux ans, j’ai découvert quelque chose d’étrange et de contre-intuitif à propos de ma glotte. Il semblait que lors d’une apnée poumon vide au sec, ma glotte restait fermée d’elle-même (sans que je la « maintienne » fermée).

Après plusieurs tests sur moi-même, je me suis rendu compte que la glotte restait également fermée sur des expirations à poumons pleins. A l’inverse, en poumons neutres (FRC), la position naturelle de ma glotte était « ouverte ».

LA SUITE SUR LE SITE 🙂

Mouthfill : Ouverte / Fermée ? Quelle est la position naturelle de la glotte ? Gaspard Freediving Dans cet article, nous questionnons l'idée selon laquelle nous aurions besoin de fermer la glotte activement pour garder notre mouthfill lors d'une apnée profonde.

MOUTHFILL : OPEN / CLOSED ? WHAT IS THE NATURAL POSITION OF THE GLOTTIS ?

I always thought the glottis neutral/natural position was “open”. Like many freedivers, when I encountered leaking mouthfill issues, I assumed that one of the causes was that my glottis was not “strong” enough and had to train it specifically.

However, two years ago, I encountered something strange and counter-intuitive about my glottis. It seemed that on a dry exhale breath-hold, my glottis was remaining closed by itself (without me “keeping” it closed).

After several tests on myself, I realized that the glottis was also staying closed on full lung breath-hold. On the opposite, on Neutral lungs (FRC), the natural position of my glottis was “open”.

LET'S PLAY

Before going further, let me detail precisely how you can “test” it on yourself.

- First, you need excellent glottis awareness. To develop it, you can “cough” very gently multiple times. Playing with the “door” will help you better understand it.

- Then, make a forced exhale (it doesn’t have to be RV, anything below FRC should work). Close your glottis, relax your abdominal muscles, relax your tongue and eliminate ALL the tensions. DO NOT TRY TO HOLD YOUR BREATH; just see what happens with your glottis when you do “nothing” and when you are entirely passive.
You can do the same with FRC and on full lungs.

- Just to be a bit more precise about Full lung and empty lungs tests: I feel that if I do absolutely nothing, the glottis remains closed, and the breath “HOLD” requires zero energy. However, if I produce a tiny bit of energy to re-open it, the air starts to flow in/out, and the glottis stays open.

EXPERTS OPINIONS

To make sure that my “feeling” of the glottis remaining closed on empty/full lungs was not just me being crazy or having a weird body, I selected three freedivers to replicate this experiment...

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https://gaspardfreediving.com/en/mouthfill-open-closed-what-is-the-natural-position-of-the-glottis/

BIG thanks to Train Freediving, Claire Walsh Life and Max Gardien free-diving for their time and participation !!!

https://gaspardfreediving.com/en/is-learning-freediving-difficult/

Is learning freediving difficult? - Gaspard Freediving Freediving is a fast-growing sport but that still remains marginal for obvious reasons: holding our breath and especially underwater is scary. But is it difficult to learn?

VOLUME RESIDUEL : QUELQUES CLARIFICATIONS

Après avoir suivi mon second cours d’apnée et avoir appris les volumes pulmonaires, ma compréhension du volume résiduel en apnée était la suivante :

“Le volume résiduel est la taille minimale des poumons. A partir de la profondeur du volume résiduel, l’air dans les poumons cesse de réduire en volume et le c’est le bloodshift qui vient protéger l’organe de la respiration.”

Cette description comporte des erreurs issues de raccourcis pris pour argent comptant. Si ces erreurs ne vous semblent pas évidentes, je vous suggère de lire l’article qui suit.
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https://gaspardfreediving.com/volume-residuel-quelques-clarifications/

Volume residuel : quelques clarifications - Gaspard Freediving Le concept de Volume Residuel (VR) est frequement utilisé en apnée. Cependant ce terme provient de la medecine et n'est pas toujours bien compris dans le contexte de l'apnée. Essayons d'y voir plus claire.

RESIDUAL VOLUME : SOME CLARIFICATIONS

After attending my second freediving course and learning about lung volumes, my understanding of residual volume was as follows:

“Residual volume is the minimum size of the lungs. From the depth of the residual volume, the air in the lungs stops reducing in volume and it is then the blood shift that comes to protect the lungs.”

There are many errors and approximations in this description, consequences of shortcuts taken at face value. If these errors are not obvious to you, I suggest you read the following article.
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https://gaspardfreediving.com/en/residual-volume-freediving/

UNTIL WHAT DEPTH SHOULD YOU EQUALIZE YOUR FREEDIVING MASK ?

Mask equalization can be a critical factor in reaching new depths:

Systematic mask equalization will cause you to lose a significant amount of air that will no longer be available to your ears. While refusing to equalize the mask will result in a mask squeeze and the zombie eyes that go with it.

The challenge is to determine at what depth the last equalization of the mask will take place to ensure that the maximum amount of air is available for your ears while excluding the risk of injury at the targeted depth.

To do this, we can perform a simple calculation…

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https://gaspardfreediving.com/en/until-what-depth-equalize-freediving-mask/

As i was reading Alenka Artnik story on onjustonebreath.com this passage caught my attention :
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Alenka starts her Vertical Blue dives with a 100 meter-plunge and completes it easily. A few days later, 103 meters. Then a meter deeper. If she can manage 105 meters, she will equal Zecchini’s world record. On the live internet stream of the dive, the commentator remarks on Alenka’s “perfect control, perfect technique” after she comes up.

Hirose and Zecchini also reach 105 meters. Each diver has another two dives to go deeper. But a voice in Alenka’s head tells her to pause.

You need more time at these depths, she thinks. You are strong enough to stop here.

Hirose pushes on to 106 meters and then attempts 107 meters. On the ascent she blacks out. Zecchini tries for 107 meters and triumphs.

Alenka’s decision to step away after such a comfortable dive puzzles other competitors. Why quit when you have a chance to win, to claim a new world record, and to raise your international profile? Alenka has no partner, no kids, and no job to return to. What does she have to lose?

But Alenka’s personal descent has taught her something: When you’ve been to the very edge of the abyss and found what makes you want to return to the surface — to live — you have everything to lose.

If anyone had asked, she would have answered:

— I feel too responsible to life to do something just because of my ego.

This is why Alenka has never experienced a lung squeeze, why she has been one of the very few competitors to have never felt the breath of a safety diver on her eyelids to coax her out of that breathless, mammalian state. This is why she still, to this day, has never blacked out.

She refuses to become a danger to herself.

But dangerous to her rivals? That will come.
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I really hope her attitude toward herself and toward freediving will inspire a new generation of freedivers.
Thank you for existing Alenka, thank you for showing us that freediving is not about "tricking our brain" but listening to it, thank you for showing us how patience and sincerity with oneself goes further (and faster) even at a highly competitive level.

Freediving is a very young and immature sport. To be convinced of this, we just have to see how fast the world records evolve (has there ever been a year without any world record?) and the differences in level on the most prestigious competitions. This means that there is no consensus on the best way to progress and that sometimes (often) one can be confronted with contradictory advice when speaking to different instructors (or coaches). As a student, facing these contradictions is not always easy, you can quickly wonder “who to believe?” and find yourself lost in your training. In this article, I will try to give you some keys to avoid getting lost along the way while making sure you get the most out of your encounters and your mentors’ visions.

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https://gaspardfreediving.com/en/contradictory-advices-how-to-manage/

Gros gros bigup à l'ami Felix Lemaitre qui publie LE roman de la rentrée !

Et en plus ca parle de plongée !!! (enfin un peu...)

Disponible chez tout les bons libraires

FRENZEL : POURQUOI EST-IL PLUS FACILE DE COMPENSER LA TETE EN HAUT ?

Comme nous l’avons vu dans un article publié l’année dernière, contrairement à certaines croyances populaires, tant que nous sommes détendus, l’air voyage naturellement des poumons à la bouche et ce, indépendamment du fait d’être tête en haut ou tête en bas. La raison principale étant que les poumons sont beaucoup plus flexibles que la tête et la cavité orale. La pression externe est donc restituée en premier dans les poumons et l’air voyage dans le sens “haute pression vers basse pression”. Pour plus de détails, je vous invite à lire ou relire cet article (https://gaspardfreediving.com/frenzel-compensation-apnee-transfert-air/)

Le problème de cette démonstration c’est qu’elle ne permet pas d’expliquer un phénomène que la plupart des apnéistes ont pu observer : il est plus facile de compenser lorsque nous somme la tête en haut.

Dans cet article, je vais vous présenter les deux explications qui me semblent les plus pertinentes pour expliquer ce phénomène pour la compensation en Frenzel. Vous êtes déjà peut-etre familier avec la première de ces explications. La 2e est le fruit de mon travail sur le sujet et je ne l’ai jusqu’à maintenant jamais entendu formulée par qui que ce soit d’autre. Sachez tout de même qu’un médecin hyperbar (Dr Heikal pour les intimes) m’en a confirmé la pertinence.

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https://gaspardfreediving.com/frenzel-tete-en-haut/