Author: rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

WTF

Dødsing, the Sport of Death Diving

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It’s not a bellyflop competition, it’s called dødsing which kinda translates do “deathing”. The idea is that you spread out as you would for a bellyflop, but tuck into a sort of folded-in-half-dive right before hitting the water. The contestants are scored based on style and how long they wait before tucking in. I’m pretty sure a full-blown bellyflop from that height (10m) is potentially very harmfull. As the name implies it’s about narrowly avoiding death. See Reddit via Neatorama https://youtu.be/0T0OLR4MzrM

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High Diving

The World’s Most Difficult Dives in La Rochelle | Cliff Diving World Series 2016

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La Rochelle, France, the fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, saw a huge crowd of 70,000 fans gather at the harbour as the world’s elite male divers battled it out from 27 metres in the Bay of Biscay. Watch the clip and relive the top dives from Jonathan Paredes, Kris Kolanus and the world’s most difficult dive from Gary Hunt: a front 3 somersaults with 4 ½ twists free. https://youtu.be/bpBT7No4Hxo

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Freediving

William Trubridge CNF World Record Freedive 102m

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In July 2016, I broke my longstanding (5.5 years!) record in the purest freediving discipline, Constant Weight No Fins, by swimming to 102 meters (334 feet) and back on a single breath of air, and with no propulsive assistance. The dive was televised to breakfast TV in NZ, and sponsored by Steinlager Pure. Featured in the video are safety divers Jonathan Sunnex, Dean Chaouche and Sofia Gomez, announcer Shiv Madhu, medics Tom Ardavany and Jani Valdivia, and AIDA judges Carla-Sue Hanson and Rob King. https://youtu.be/e_sc7j0XHEk

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Organization

Robbed in Rio: Danish Olympic team hit by thieves

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Olympic thieves have robbed Denmark’s team of mobile phones, clothes and sheets, and even had the cheek to deprive Morten Rodtwitt, the country’s Olympic boss of his iPad. “It’s extremely irritating,” Morten Rodtwitt, Denmark’s chef de mission in Rio, told Berlingske. “In connection with the many extra workers, cleaners and housekeepers who have been squeezed into the Olympic village because of our requirements and requests, we have been subjected to a series of thefts,” he told TV2. The thefts come on top of a string of problems with the athletes rooms which have forced the Danish delegation to complain of…

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Organization

Outrage as Olympic swimming pool bans women from ‘men only’ sessions for ‘cultural reasons’ with bathers required to cover ‘navel to knee’

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A swimming pool has introduced gender segregated sessions with bathers required to cover up from “navel to knee” for “cultural reasons”. The Inspire Sports Village in Stopsley, Luton, Beds., built using taxpayer-funded Olympic money, will give men exclusive access to the larger 50 metre competitive pool on Friday evenings, while women will be able to use the smaller 20 metre community pool. On Facebook, the gender-segregated sessions were advertised saying “Alhamdulliah swimming is back” – a phrase which thanks God for his blessings. Posters promoting the event, which were implemented last Friday, say that “navel to knee must be covered”. According to…

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