Kurt Chambers
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Minimal upper body oscillation, powerful hip flexion and extension, core engagement, rapid and whiplike redirection of the fin to emit thrusting vortices, properly timed ankle extension and posterior muscle activation, as much symmetry as possible between the front and back kick, an optimized balance between propulsion and drag reduction. As simple as the dolphin kick sounds, the coordination required to perform it effectively has forever been among the most formidable challenges in swimming. It is not easily learned simply through imitation or intuition. Embarking on the journey is facilitated most by learning fundamental drills that break the complex movement down into simpler pieces, with dedication of hundreds of laps to these in hope of developing muscle memory that will allow assembly of all the elements together in a fluid, efficient, and hopefully graceful display. The faster you can oscillate and traverse, the greater your prowess. Before even entering the water, learning effective dry-land exercises that rely on body weight to introduce the appropriate muscles involved and their coordination is prudent not to skip. Many a would-be dolphin kicker has squandered the opportunity to achieve mastery by choosing the wrong training tools. The @finisswim Foil, Evo, and Zoomers are particularly well-suited, not to mention far more affordable and time-tested than the overpriced versions popularized within the freediving market. Begin your journey (or get it on the right track) with an introduction to these fundamentals through my swimming-derived education system. You will not find this guidance in any freediving curriculum. The 50m Olympic-distance pool awaits and will serve our journey best.
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Last mouthfill and monofin workshops in Bohol, then back to Hawai’i. Anyone in the ‘āina need some intro or advanced help? DEC 1-12: Bohol DEC 13-15: Seoul DEC 16 - JAN 31: O’ahu/Kaua’i FEB 1-28: Kona MAR 1: Seoul Also, anyone else finswimming in O’ahu? I’ll train at Kapolei 50m pool, run in Makakilo, and depth train at Electric Beach. There’s no time to waste to prepare for the next depth comps. #400
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Have you tried the new fragrance by @chambersbelow? Available now at @freedive_superhome. ???? ???? @amelita22 @deepblue.sr
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Over the last week one of the fiercest gods of Philippines displayed awesome fury—Habagat! ???? Our slippers and motorbikes are caked with mud, a ravenous swarm of dengue-spreading mosquitos is incubating, trees were snapped like toothpicks. And yet…the power in Bohol didn’t go out for the longest stretch in many presidential elections? ???? Passing typhoons are being blamed, but the minor ones lately were so distant. Habagat is all-powerful and doesn’t necessarily need help from typhoons to unleash its fury! The cries of many are heard. Not from children, they love playing in the rain with the frogs. Instead, from spoiled, hapless freedivers. They lament about an unprecedented four days in a row of depth training cancelled! ???? Even if the training center chanced it and deployed the vessels, Philippines Coast Guard is vigilant and would imprison or execute them all! Me? I’m loving it. ???? Habagat is the only time it feels like the fair tradewinds of Hawai’i blowing in Philippines—for the first time this year I’m not dripping with booty sweat thanks to the natural AC! ???? And it’s still just fine below the surface of the unsettled but ever inviting sea, if you have a pair (of fins) and know how to shore dive...Hawaiian style. ????????
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In Hawai’i you get your first pair of long fins, go into the ocean, and begin exploring. You possibly even figure out how to dive 30m on your own, perhaps by finding your way to the shipwrecks and attempting to touch down. Then—a few months or years later—you sign up for your first freediving class, and may bring into it so much experience that you excel right away, earning your classmates’ admiration for a 4+ static and maxing out the depth allowed. Completely different story in Asia. They’ve created an institution where formal instruction is the introduction, and most divers know *only line diving—it occupies all of their ocean time. So much so that every diver here uses a special term for doing a casual dive in the ocean without any intention of training…’Fun diving’. The recreational ‘diving’ most in Hawai’i do 90% of the time is the ‘fun diving’ Asian divers do <10% of the time. Nothing wrong with that, and of course I’m generalizing. But the thing that bothers me is when I learn that extremely well-trained freedivers, capable of 60 - 90m on the line…Are at the same time afraid to ‘fun dive’ 30m without a line! When being tethered to a training line is all they know, the freedom of exploring freely and venturing even just to moderate depth can be a source of anxiety. ???? So when recent students @pattareeya77 and @deepblue.sr joined me day after class for a ‘fun dive’, I challenged them to descend below the sardines and follow the wall to reach the same max depth as they did on the line. Both made it! ???? Remember the ‘free’ in freediving.
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The uninitiated commonly ask, “What do you see when you’re down there?” To which I am usually struck somewhere between stumped and duh, “I see within.” They’re equally stumped. “Uh…OK.” When you go balls deep you’re not usually sightseeing. You’re concentrating on not swallowing (your mouthfill), or perhaps instead deconcentrating. Unless you’re on a really expensive scooter, you’re not joyriding down there. There’s no sense of urgency greater than being hundreds of feet below the surface on a breath-hold. But…There are many reasons why being able to see clearly would be desirable. Staying close to your trail of breadcrumbs to return to the surface—the line; successfully grabbing one of those necessary tags from the bottom plate in a comp dive; being able to keep an eye on that curious tiger shark circling nearby. There haven’t been many convenient options for masks or goggles for freedivers allowing clear vision at great depth without stipulations like having to fill the goggles with water. By now you’ve surely heard of the @evolveapnea FREEQ goggles, which you possibly swatted away for its supposed depth limit of 40m. As usual in freediving, that limit was just in our minds, as I succeeded in reaching 105m this week in the DEEP FREEQ. My test of their performance is to check if I can read my gauge in spite of the compression of the goggles causing swelling of the eyes. And then checking for burst capillaries after surfacing. I did the dive twice for good measure, and can confirm success with both tests. No more must I dive in the dark for shutting my eyes on account of their direct contact with the flowing water during deep dives. It’s a whole new world getting to see clearly at over 100 meters now with the DEEP FREEQ. ????
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The greatest impression I will take away from two weeks in Okinawa is admiration of their clever relationship with the ocean. In Hawai’i we may spend time in the sea—swim, dive, fish, surf—but, we pretty much just take advantage. In Okinawa it’s not just a setting for recreation or sightseeing—it is a valuable resource to preserve and even cultivate. The practices I witnessed have probably been an important element of the culture here for centuries. A chance meeting with Yoshiki, the generous creator of the most popular resource for dive site guidance in Okinawa, allowed a most educational session. The day starts early for divers here, because the sun is intense, though it also provides benefit of balmy 29°C shore diving. After meeting at 6am, we swam out in calm, clear conditions, as enjoyed everyday in the Onna province. For the last 20 years Yoshiki has been gardening…in the ocean. We swam over an array of evenly spaced metal stakes ~1m apart, each with its own coral seedling climbing toward the nourishing sun. The relative ages of the seedlings are apparent from the range of sizes in groups across patches. I have never seen coral restoration with such high success anywhere in Hawai’i or Philippines. As I snapped photos of handsome fish flitting through the garden, I started to realize how it also serves as valuable habitat, and how vast it was. Five ama divers also spent the morning there, mermaiding about, but also dutifully working. In exchange for them helping maintain the garden—removing debris and keeping an eye out for invasive algae—Yoshiki provides them with delicious mozoku from one of his other gardens. Mozoku and umibudo, among other nutritious seaweeds, are the most popular staples long cultivated in the waters of Okinawa. Could they be essential of the legendary diet for outliving a century? I eagerly ate both gelatinous delights with every single meal. Why the Japanese flock to visit Hawai’i beats me, after witnessing how much healthier the reef and fish populations are in Okinawa. I must return here, to continue my education of their resourceful stewardship of the ocean. Arigatou gozaimasu, @hitoiki_yoshikiandjunko!
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Many patrons on Tripadvisor complained that the legendary Blue Cave of Okinawa was overcrowded. So @ku.jay and I made sure to visit at power hour late this morning. The site, frankly, would have been boring without the throngs of life jacket-clad landlubbers kicking each other in the head. I just wish I remembered to bring my football helmet. Every popular diving destination needs its sacrificial dive site that gets overexploited and choked by residual sunscreen for the benefit of easy accessibility for the visiting masses. Like Napaling in Bohol and Hanauma Bay in O’ahu. Hopefully the patrons fortunate enough to visit the Blue Cave this morning were entertained more than usual by the sparkling fairies dancing in the darkness below their aqua socks. ????
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I almost visited Okinawa in 2010 as part of Team Hawai’i for AIDA World Championships. 14 years later I finally made it. We are enjoying the preparation for the first inaugural @okinawa_freedivingcup organized by @freediving_okinawa @diveshop_truenorth @yamamoto1028 @tomoka_fukuda! Cooler water (25° instead of the 30° we have in Panglao), stiff breeze, and wet n’ wild boat rides. It’s good to compete in different settings and circumstances to become more well-rounded as a competitor. Athletes are participating from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand and USA. So many familiar faces from @freedive_superhome! The forecast looks great for the comp later this week. It just depends on whether we can tame our Orion draft consumption until then!
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