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...

Hey! I’m from: Montreal, Canada For fun I love to: Right now I’m training for / focusing on: in winter I train in artistic swimming, but freedive in (mostly) summer My biggest challenge with breathwork, performance, or freediving is: my lack of time & training buddies Thinking I need to add more dry training while its winter here to hit the ground (water) running (swimming) when ice melts!

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