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Vendredi 30 octobre 2009

EQUIPE DE FRANCE/FRENCH NATIONAL TEAM 2009 CWT/CNF

PHOTO JEROME VIGOUREUX-PELTIER

Communiqué AIDA france

Les 4 meilleurs français tous sexes confondus seraient qualifiés, tel était le voeu du sélectionneur. Les Championnats du monde de profondeur AIDA débuteront le 25 Novembre 2009, ils accueilleront Christian Maldamé (Wild card CWT & CNF), Guillaume Nery (Wild card CWT et qualifié en CNF), Morgan Bourc'His (qualifié en CWT & CNF) et Patrick Poggi (qualifié en CWT). Ces 4 athlètes représenteront AIDA France et marqueront le début de la collaboration entre Sony-Ericsson et AIDA France.

Ils seront tous présents sur place une dizaine de jours avant le début des épreuves afin de peaufiner leurs réglages et être à même de donner le meilleur d'eux-mêmes lors des épreuves officielles.

Frédéric Lemaître, sera lui aussi présent à double titre, effectuer le suivi photo des athlètes pour le compte de Sony-Ericsson et effectuer des mesures in-situ afin de mieux comprendre la physiologie en apnée et les situations conduisant à des accidents de décompression.

Souhaitons leur bonne chance.
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I will be in The bahamas from the 15th of November till the 6th of December.

You can follow the event :

On this blog
On Guillaume Nery's blog : http://guillaumenery.over-blog.com/
On the official competition web site : http://www.verticalblue.net/events/

Stay tuned !

Par Christian Maldamé
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Lundi 26 octobre 2009

-90m in CWT and competition winner

Egypt - Dahab - Blue hole. This sunday 25th of october, the sea is perfectly flat and calm, everything is quiet.
That is the perfect moment for this depth competition, organized by Lotta Ericson, for the freedivers present in Dahab.

On my side, for this important test before the world championships, I decided to announce -90m in CWT. I felt well the previous days of training and I really want to check if I will be able to achieve this depth before putting additional meters to the line...

And here are the results :

On the men side

Per Westin turns at -71m after a -74m attempt in CWT
Victor ? sets-up a new national record for Ukraine at -60m in CWT
A new national record is also set-up for Lituania with -45m in CWT

On the women side

Ingela does a succesful 45m dive
Wendy Timmermans turns at -61m for a -64m FIM announce
And Kathreen Mac Fee fails in a -54m CNF dive

With a successful CWT dive at -90m, I finally win this competition.

My feelings were extremely good, and I clearly feel enough well to increase my nexts perfomances. Time will tell...

Thanks to the organisation and safety for their good jobs.

Further results can be found on deeperblue.net
All pictures above were shooted by Wendy Timmermans

Par Christian Maldamé
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Mercredi 23 septembre 2009

Nice Abyss contest

Organized by the CIPA in Nice, this world class depth competition was including CNF and CWT disciplins on a 2 day basis.

Annoucements were free for each day, which means that you could do 2 tries on a single disciplin or both disciplins if wanted.

Guillaume Nery managed to organize this competition under an ecological sign. A bio buffet with recycable material was set-up. A minimum of boat shuttle were done to lower done the carbon dioxide impact,...

The weather for this week-end was not so good, with rain and waves disturbing slightly the athletes. But this Villefranche bay spot is so nice and well protected that there was no significant impact on the athletes.

The first day, the athletes were quite surprised by a strong freezing thermocline at 45m depth. Some lost their mouthfills and tensed themselves, leading to missed dive, but in the overal the conditions were fine.

In CWT :

For the men, François Gautier does a strong dive to 80m and wins the contest, followed by a newcomer Nicolas Girardin with 70m, on the third place Jean-Michel Pradon does a very nice come-back to competition wih 67m.

On my side, with an announcement of 78m, I miss my equalization, due to a lack of focus, and have to turn earlier. Grrr, I will surely play it differently next time, as this dive was supposed to be very manageable for me.

For the women, Brigitte Banegas wins the competition with a nice 47m, followed by a newcomer cipaist, Vanessa Macdonald that went to 45m, Mia Risner follows close.

In CNF :

Morgan Bourc'his, does a secured 63m dive, after a missed attempt to 70m the previous day (early turn due to the thermocline). I do a nice and cool 60m dive, giving me a nice second place on the podium. Feelings were great and I really appreciated a long free-fall phase down to 60m.

On the 3rd place, we find Fred Sessa that does an easy 50m dive, good result for a first depth attempt, well done guy !

For this comeback to competition after a 4 months break, I was happy to take this second place, behind my teammate Morgan. My heavy training phase is at its beginning, and I still have 2 months to prepare myself for the Bahamas depth world championships...

On the women side, Brigitte Banegas wins the comp with a new french national record at 35m, well done Brigitte !

The full results can be found here :

http://www.freedivecentral.com/c-nice-abyss-contest-71

Credit photos Val Leferme/Greg. Piazzola (UW pics)

A full set of beautiful pictures done by Valérie Leferme are on this link :

http://niceabyss.loicleferme.fr/

Par Christian Maldamé
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Lundi 7 septembre 2009

Oslo Ice Challenge - The video

Here is the video (short edition) that was edited for the Oslo Ice challenge that occured beginning of march.

Youtube restrictions leaded to shorten the film to less than 10 minutes and to change the original soundtrack.

Enjoy :-)

Par Christian Maldamé
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Vendredi 1 mai 2009

Nimes sets new competition standards

Nimes, south of France, is a nice town, well known for its corridas and ferias.

But, this week-end was 100% freediving oriented with an already well known competition. with more than 70 athletes participating, Nimes is surely the biggest competition in the french freediving calendar this year.

The pool is huge, providing a 50m olympic pool (perfect for the dynamic with fins), 25m wide (perfect for the no fins) and a static dedicated pool.

This environment is simply perfect for performances. Combined with a very good organization, this event was a great success, announcing possibilities for even bigger events. Well done SCPL (Nimes's freediving club) !

The level of competitors present was high, with all the AIDA french representants present 'in force'. This Nimes competition was 'the' french indoor meeting of the year, with no doubt !

The first event, static, started the competition with nice performances :

with 7 persons over 6' (Pradon Jean-Michel 06:43, Charras christian 06:34, Poggi Patrick 06:31, Jérôme CHAPELLE 06:26, Guillaume Néry 06:26, Morgan Bourc his 06:02) and one over 7' (Christian Maldamé 07:01), the level was set up high for the next disciplines to come.

The final podium was staying open for at least 10 freedivers...

For the women, Francine goes over 5 minutes with 5'12'', things are getting serious for her :-)

The next discipline, dynamic with fins, was announcing good performances to come.

And it came...

I was finally the 'lucky' winner of the day with a very nice 200m Personal Best, allowing me to take the first place of the final ranking. Just behind, Morgan, Christian and Fabry were not far, doing very serious performances.

The 6 best performances of the DYN are listed here :

1 Christian Maldamé 200m

2 Morgan Bourc his 175m

3 charras christian 156m

4 Fabry Mathieu 150m

5 Guillaume Néry 143m

6 Frank Caillet 136m

On the Women side, Alice sets-up new standards reaching a very nice distance of 150m (equals the french national record) and win this discipline easily. Francine follows with a nice PB of 124m, with a new fin, Well done Francine ! But it was not enough to win the final ranking of the competition that Alice secured with her impressive 150m.

In option, a limited number of athletes (20) could do a performance in DNF, not accounted for the final ranking.

Men and women offered a nice show. I noted a nice 'head to head' between Guillaume and Morgan. In the end, Morgan won this contest with an over 128m swimm. Well done Morgan !

Video : The champions heat (DNF) : M. Bourchis (128m) Vs G. Nery (DSQ-SP)

In the end of the DNF, Cyril offered us a nice show of 'how to secure a protocol in Samba' making all of us laugh...

The final ranking gives :

Women
1. Alice, Modolo

2. KREISS, Francine

3. Florence, Chepetkine

Men

1 Maldamé, Christian

2 Bourc his, Morgan

3 christian, charras

4 Néry, Guillaume

5 Jean-Michel, Pradon

6 Thomé, Fabrice

We could note, the 'come back' of 2 strong freedivers of the french freediving circuit : Christian Charras and Jean-Michel Pradon. Coming back after 2-3 years break (at least). They are still very fit and able to fight for the podium, congratulations...

Detailed results can be found here :

http://www.freedivecentral.com/a-results.php?num_competicao=63

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Par Christian Maldamé
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Mercredi 15 avril 2009

Aix les Bains competition in the Sun

The Aix les bains competition is a new competition in the freediving AIDA French cup, organized by Cyril Pelletier, the brother of Jerome Vigoureux Pelletier.

I must say, that with the help of Jérome Vigoureux Pelletier, Gregory Piazzola and a set of motivated freedivers

providing safety and help, it was a full success.

As discussed with them, they might extend the concept next year to a bigger version with more freedivers participating, and why not with a constant weight disciplin added ... That's a very good idea ;-)

Most of the present freedivers were 'regional' freedivers coming from the close towns, like Grenoble, Lyon, Geneva. Some germans and czechs joined also to participate to the event. Guillaume Nery took part in the event, that was lasting one day more, on monday, with conferences dedicated to students.

Atmosphere was friendly, as most of the times in the AIDA freediving competitions. The competition included the static discipline as well as one Dynamic chosen between with or without fins.

For the men :

Fred Monnot from Club des Dauphins-Geneva does a very nice 4'40'' and a good 100m dynamic. A very good result for a first competition ...
Guillaume had a hard static day and goes out after 5'20''. He is trying a new warm-up technique, that apparently did not work this time. He will then do an easy 106m in DNF, announcing better performances to come for the next competitions.

On my side, A very pleasant static, with soft contractions leads me to a nice 6'58''.
I then chosed to do the Dynamic without fins, due to the 25m pool length. I finally do a nice 150m and get a 5 point penalty, due to an early grab of the pool.

Pascal Huron manages to do a new personnal Best with a very nice 6'28'' in static. The Lyon team was strong and showed a good presence during the competition.

Video : Last heat of dynamic (no fins) - P. Huron (DSQ-SP) and C. Maldamé (150m)

For the women :

The Clermont Ferrand team takes the lead, with Alice Modolo and Rosa Kong A Siou.

Alice with a very nice 143m and a 4'25'' static easily takes the 1st place, followed by Rosa 100m dynamic and 3'11'' static.

The final Combined results podium is below

total points
Women

1. MODOLO Alice 71.5 53.0 124.5

2. KONGASIOU Rosa 49.0 38.2 87.2

3. MIGARD Albine 40.0 47.0 87.0

Men

1. MALDAME Christian 70.0 83.6 153.6

2. WULFF Ulrich 62.5 69.6 132.1

3. PLISSON Gildas 62.0 39.6 101.6

The nice sun, bathing the pool and the competitors outside, remained till the end, for the final podium, enlighting the good results of the day...

We will come back next year !

Par Christian Maldamé
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EQUIPE DE FRANCE/FRENCH NATIONAL TEAM 2009 CWT/CNF

-90m in CWT and competition winner

Nice Abyss contest

Oslo Ice Challenge - The video

Nimes sets new competition standards

Aix les Bains competition in the Sun

My next competitions

Train with me

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Photo albums

Disciplines in freediving

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