credit © Freediving.bizAs we informed previously in the post http://apnea.cz/blog.html?thread=2085, Sebstian Murat prepares to redo the current world record of Herbert Nitsch of 214m No-Limits, with the difference that he will dive on empty lungs. Sebastian now looks for some volunteers to assist him in the attempt, and in the same time he prepares a workshop in Antibes, France:

Yesterday, on March 24th, 2012, there was an FFESSM (French CMAS branch) competition in Massy, near Paris. It included also the speed apnea discipline 16x50m. Brice Lequette created a new best world`s performance with the time of 10`49`34.

Before 2011 the world records were not officially sanctioned, so each such performance when done with the presence of judges was considered a world record, but since last year 16x50m became one of the new official CMAS disciplines, hence proper sanctioning and an international status of the event is required for the WR status. I am not yet quite sure whether this record will be recognized as a WR, so possibly it will remain just a national record and the best world`s performance.

The information comes from the website of the FFESSM: http://apnee.ffessm.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=252:5eme-manche-de-coupe-de-france-massy&catid=39:reserve&Itemid=79

Apnea.cz did not receive the complete results yet, but will add them to the ranking as soon as available.

At the last WR of Brice of 11`10`, the video casted some doubts on the regularity of the performance, since the starts did not appear being coherent with the rules telling the athlete has to touch the wall at the moment of immersion. I requested a video from this event, and if available I will post it here later.

In any way, regardless of the regularity, it is an amazing performance, and I send my congratulations to Brice!

Note on March 25: still no video available, but according to numerous witnesses, including the organizer, the CMAS rules requiring a contact with the wall in the moment of immersion were controlled by judges and properly respected.

The resting times were 9s at the first laps, and around 15s at the end. At the final lap(s), the swim time was under 25s.

If you do not know yet, there is a database of freediving training exercises at Apnea.cz too. In fact it was one of the first features of this website. It is not only a simple database listing different types of exercises and full training sessions for different freediving idsciplines, but also an interactive and programmable application for training so-called hypercapnic and hypoxic tables, and also other types of exercices.

There are many additional features planned, but the development did not progress a lot in the last time, because the work on the other parts of the website takes a lot of time too. Recently a user reported problems with running the application. To my surprise the problems were caused by an upgrade of the engine of the programming language, that was done a few months earlier, but no user dared reporting it till now. The bug is now fixed, and the ATM should work again as earleir. If you try it and encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to report them.

Branko Petrović (Serbia) has just created a new record in static apnea - incredible 12 minutes and 11 seconds, beating so the current official World Record of Stephane Mifsud (France) of 11:35 by more than half a minute! However, the record will receive only national status from AIDA Serbia, because the conditions for the world record were not fulfilled. Branko will do an official world record attempt later, when finances allow. Or perhaps at one of the future competitions with a WR status - Branko already holds the best performance in a competition (10:23 from Submania 2011), so it may be a cheaper alternative for him (unless he finds a wealthy sponsor for organizing the individual WR attempt).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvVkp1h5Q1U