Läs Imzes blogg om Bizzy Blue Hole!
Nu är Ingela "Imze" Karlsson nere i Egypten igen och kommer där bland annat att delta i Bizzy Blue Hole Freediving tävlingen i Dahab.

Du kan följa hennes äventyr och fridykningshistorier på hennes blogg. Adressen till Imzes blogg är:

http://imze.bloggagratis.se

IN ENGLISH
Read Imze's blog, where she writes about the Bizzy Blue Hole Freediving event in Dahab 2008 and all of her adventures there.

Unfortunately the blog is only in swedish, but there might be some fun photos or videos there every now and then to take a look at!

The blog page:
http://imze.bloggagratis.se

This sunday, 16th of March, Anders and Eva decided that they wanted to go and try out the cold water in Kungsö.

So the two of them went out with Anders boat to our favourite place, called "Rankgården". The water temperature was only + 2 degrees Celcius and with a 3mm wetsuit, every experienced nordic freediver knows how cold it is.

But they lasted for 15 minutes so they at least could try out their equipment and to show what freediving is all about: Enthusiasm and passion for the lifestyle.

The rest of the team are very impressed by this performance, and hopefully the rest of us will join you under the surface when the water get a little bit warmer :)

Hopefully this is the beginning of a good and long summer season of freediving together with the team!

Keep up the good spirit, Anders and Eva!

Freediving Team Åland

Finnkampen - a new tradition?
A few days after the great battle between Sweden and Finland, our team have had some time to evaluate our first large competition.

The view of the team is that the competition couldn't have been much better. Of course, everyone and everything can and hopefully always will be better since there are constantly new things to learn from each other.

Who will get the 33rd "greatest achievement of the year" -medal from Ålandstidningen?
Now it is up to you to give us your opinion – and at the same time get a chance to see all the league games this summer with Åland United and IFK Mariehamn.

Five nominees still stand in the final voting round of the Ålandstidningen greatest achievement of the year medal 2007. You can from this day forward affect who you think has achieved the greatest sport result this year on Åland.

The jury members of the year are Katarina Sundberg, Anki Nordman, John Holmberg and the Ålandstidningen sport journalist Thomas Jonsson.
The jury have chosen the final nominees among 27 candidates, that all together got 66 votes that the readers of Ålandstidningen have nominated during the last two weeks.

The first battle in freediving between Finland & Sweden, Finnkampen 2008!
The competition is to be held on the Åland Islands on the 2th of February 2008 at Mariebad, so make sure to write this down in your freediving calendars!

The registration is finally done, and we have a total of 22 athletes. It is very encouraging for us to see so many freedivers from both Sweden and Finland that want to come to our island and compete and have fun togheter with us!

We also want to remind you, that you pay your fees into our account so that we may book the pool, the food and the party place, knowing that we can afford it.

Thank you in advance!

If there are any problems of if you have any questions, you may send an e-mail to peter@freedivingteam.com or ingela@freedivingteam.com and we will try to help you and give you the answers!

New Information about the competition - travels - prizes
Click here for more INFORMATION (PDF 53kb)

Information about the competition
Click here for more INFORMATION (PDF 195kb)

Finnkampen 2008 on googlemaps

AIDA-judges:
Mathias Lanner
Rahel Zemoi
Kimmo Lahtinen

Registered freedivers:

Sweden (13 athletes):
Ulf Dextegen................................. (confirmed)
Peter Boivie................................... (confirmed)
Weine Gustavsson....................... (confirmed)
Jonas Landén............................................................ (cancelled)
Per Westin.................................... (confirmed)
Anders Rikardsson...................... (confirmed)
Rikard Larsson............................. (confirmed)
Erik Milles...................................... (confirmed)
Mikael Asp.................................... (confirmed)
Yamina Enedahl............................ (confirmed)
Marcus von Schmalensée............ (confirmed)
Tobias Nilsson.............................. (confirmed)
* Johan Dahlström
* Klara Hansson

Finland (6 athletes):
Susanna Saari............................................................ (cancelled)
Simo Kurra.................................... (confirmed)
Mikko Pöntinen............................................................ (cancelled)
Kaj Toivola.................................... (confirmed)
Matti Luukkonen............................ (confirmed)
Jonérik Ekström............................. (confirmed)
Antero Joki.................................... (confirmed)
Päivi Mettovaara............................ (confirmed)
* Saku Saaristo............................................................ (cancelled)

* Late registration

Eva Ernkrans
Birthdate: 1958-11-17
evae@aland.net
Tel. +358 45 75301112

Occupation
Lifeguard

Equipment
Fins: ******
Mask: *****

Personal Best
Static: 3 minutes : 25 seconds
Dynamic with fins: 113 meters
Dynamic without fins: ** meters
Constant Weight: ** meters

Personal Best (unofficial records)
Static: 4 minutes : 12 seconds
Dynamic with fins: 117 meters
Dynamic without fins: ** meters
Constant Weight: ** meters

Background information

Finally we have had our first official AIDA - ranked competition on Åland, and it was a great success!

Even though there were only a few competitors, everything ran pretty smoothly and there were only minor details that we have to change for the next competition.

We had no black outs or incidents what so ever, and that is the goal and spirit of our club, so we are very happy for that.

There were two new swedish records and three new ålandish records.

Swedish records:
First Marcus von Schmalensée got the old record from Anders, and did an great DNF dive for 136 meters, which is truly amazing, considering that he pretty young and still is in the beginning of his career as a freediver.

Unfortunately he only got to keep his record for about 15 minutes, until Anders went into the pool and did an outstanding performance of 142 meters, which also was one meter longer than the best DYN performance of the day, made by Tobias Nilsson.

Ulf Dextegen had in mind to get a new swedish record in static, but unfortunately he "only" got 7:12, and that is still a world class result. It was also his first white card in a competition so he was happy about that.

Ålandish records:
The 142 meter DNF dive that Anders made was also of course an ålandish record, which I think he will keep for himself for a long time ahead, unless he set a new one.

Ingela Karlsson was really focused at the static performance and set a new official record for women at 3:31

One of our newest recruits, Eva Ernkrans, attended at her first competition ever, and set an impressive new ålandish and personal record at 92 meters DYN.

There were also the first competition for some other of our team members, and they did very good. If the rest of our competitions follows this pattern, we have nothing to fear.

Raehl Zemoi and Mathias Lanner were the Judges and they did a very good job.

As an organizer, we will give our THANK YOU, to all the competitors, the judges, the crew, the volounteers, the team members and last but not least our sponsors that made this competition possible!

Here you may download the results as a PDF:
Viking Pool Challenge 2007 results (31kb)

The Sunday 11th of November, Anders Larsson together with his team members of Freediving Team Åland, set a new World Record in DNFNA (Dynamic No Fins No Arms).

The new record is 120 meters, which is 6 meters longer than the previous record (114 meters), performed by the wellknown freediver William Winram from Canada.

Rahel Zemoi (Swe) was the judge, and the whole event was filmed.

The video:

This is the first official AIDA - ranked competition on Åland, and it will take place at our local pool, Mariebad on the 17th of November (Saturday).

Raehl Zemoi and Mathias Lanner are the Judges.

There will be three pool events: STA, DYN and DNF.

If you want to compete, you have to send us your registration information before the end of Thursday 8/11-07

Read more in the invitation document:

Invitation in English (PDF):
Invitation.pdf

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Inbjudan på Svenska (PDF):
Inbjudan.pdf

Resepaket:
paketpris.doc

Finally, we in Freediving Team Åland have been to our first freediving World Championship! It was a great and interesting experience for everyone in our team to go to Maribor in Slovenia to meet the world elite of freedivers. Here you may read about what happened and what we experienced there:

For the first time in the history of our freediving club, we have finally been to the World Championship where we met some of the best freedivers of the world. This was an incredible experience and we got many new friends and learned much more than we expected.

Article and Video soon
We will post an article about our trip to Maribor - Slovenia in about week or two, and hopefully a video in a month or two.

But while you are waiting for that, you may watch over 230 photos from our trip in our photo gallery. Click here to go directly to the World Championship photo gallery:

"Photo Gallery"

You can also watch photos from other photographers and freedivers here:

Kimmo Lahtinen's photos

Dejan Šarman'a photos 1
Dejan Šarman's photos 2
Dejan Šarman's photos 3
Dejan Šarman's photos 4
Dejan Šarman's photos 5
Dejan Šarman's photos 6
Dejan Šarman's photos 7

Jorg Jansen´s photos

Igor Migunov´s photos 1
Igor Migunov´s photos 2
Igor Migunov´s photos 3
Igor Migunov´s photos 4

Freediving Team Åland goes to World championship in Slovenia
Who would have tought, when three guys in the year of 2002 started the first freediving club on Åland, that one of our future team members would compete together with the freediving elite of the world? To be honest, I think that the tought never even crossed our mind.

But now, 5 years later, our friend, team member and source of inspiration Anders Larsson finally has qualified to compete together with the national team of Sweden in the world championship. For those of you that knows that our island belong to Finland, and therefor are confused with why he competes for Sweden, I will explain. Anders used to live in Skåne, Sweden, but recently moved to Åland. He has not been granted a finnish citizenship yet, and may not compete for Finland before he get it.

But since we have freediving friends in both Sweden and Finland, this is not a problem for us. We are happy just to come along to Slovenia and have a chance to see all the amazing atlethes, and meet our freediving friends and also make new ones.

Dessa tillfällen är kvar innan utesäsongen börjar:

Lördag 24.03 kl 10.00-11.30
Onsdag 04.04 kl 18.30-20.00

Meddela gärna om ni kommer så att ni blir insläppta eftersom dörren måste vara låst.

Unfortunately, all of the interviews so far are in swedish, but if you want to know what it says, then contact us and we will try to translate it for you.