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My Introduction
Hi everyone!
My name is Sergey, Im from Minsk, Belarus 🤍❤️🤍
I love to swim and freedive, and I really enjoy that 😍
I want to become a professional freediver and a real master with all its aspects, and become eventually an elite freediving athlete and compete on both local and international championships, maybe even score world records!😍😍😍
Freediving is my real passion for me, and a purpose I feel to achieve.
Right now I'm training mostly dynamic disciplines. I have 3 pool trainings a week for each DYN style: a DYN one, a DYNb one, and a DNF one. I'm currently focusing on DYNb and DNF as I hope to compete and score real good results in them. I'd also love to train and maybe even compete in STA, but unfortunately have no time for STA training😥 Depth is not what I'm looking for right now, I'm able to get to 30+m in any style I want with pure comfort, but overall depth doesn't really attract me so far...
I believe there are 3 biggest (and intertwined) challenges that severely hinder my progress and results.
The 1st one is the severe😡 hypercapnia response I have. Neither general 'urge to breathe' nor contractions (which I absolutely tolerate no matter how hard they are, and I have the strongest contractions amongst freedivers in my freediving club!) are hardly the challenge. The challenge are random and severe 'hypercapnia locks' that I experience through the long dives or STA attempts - it feels like my body is trying to take control from me, and push me to the surface, with overall panic and a state of the intense inner fight, and the worst part that I can't do anything about it, neither relax nor concentrate on technique. Because of that, I always end my dives, even competition ones, far from the results I know I can do without this reaction, and I never get even slightly hypoxic. This incredibly frustrates and angers me, along with numbers not good enough both by my abilities and the overall scoring amongst fellow athletes, and my Christmas wish is to become able to fully meet my side that doesn't quit, so I won't quit no matter what I feel, unless I detect severe hypoxia myself...
The 2nd one is that nobody around really believes in me, and nobody supports me in my efforts to become a freediving athlete😭. Even amongst my closest people around. My coach sometimes advises me to not pursue competitive freediving or compete with others with numbers😱 (but she actively does😁), and sometimes offers me recreational freediving. My fiancée (secretly) cheers my defeats because she hopes I would eventually quit and focus on her and the money-making instead😭 and my parents became to fear me for what I'm doing...
The 3rd one is my life besides freediving, which brings me a lot of pain and hatred. I hate my job (former software developer here, switched to sales but it didn't help), I hate the money and the system overall (I work just because I want my freediving gets funded), and I feel like the typical life which I live too(which involves career/business, making money, growing of my future children etc.) is the life fully wasted. The worst part is I'm kinda bound to have this life in my future, despite all my efforts and attempts to change it.
Freediving for me is not just a profession I really want to have and become a master in. It's the biggest investment I make to really change my lifestyle! I dream of living by the ocean, 100% off-grid, having my own coral garden underwater which I would grow myself, never working for money but instead enjoying the Big Blue while freediving together with my friends and family (and continue training and competing for the world-level results), spearfishing for food and as an entertainment, finding a woman who would ENJOY both freediving and free-living, as much as I do. My coach suffers from her job which she hates too, and dreams of freediving without it (but surrendered long ago and just does it) - I think eventually I'll provide her the solution of the life without work, but with freediving. And last but not least, I want my future children to be happy amongst the sun and the water, and maybe amongst the other FREE divers and their children, knowing the Big Blue from the early age and living a happy life instead of going to be 'successful' and 'smart' in modern society. It brings me a lot of pain to live in Belarus instead, whilst make little money, hating my job and being amongst people who don't support or don't understand me...
Belarus Freediving Cup 2026 (a country-level pool competition) is going to happen in April, and I want to get prepared for it. I sincerely hope that my hypercapnic response would be at least passable to withstand, so I'll score 200+m in DYNb (on the recent competition I exited with 132m DYNb because of hypercapnia response, not even getting my lips blue and done 120m effortless! And also I did it without my suit), at least 130+m DNF (my recent PB was 104m but I exited the dive just by the same reason and with the same condition). There is also STA but I'm hesitant to compete in it, because my PB (5'15") is not a good result to score (amongst other Belarusian athletes), and I highly doubt that it would be better for now - and it's so easy for me to get frustrated by numbers...
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