I just read the above titled story in the January Mens' Journal, which has a six page pictoral article about the Performance Freediving course. I'm not wild about the title, but it's a good read about a journalist immersing into a new sport for the story, but the author, David Case, has his dives blown out in Miami and luckily finishes in Grand Cayman at the clinic that Tiger Woods and his wife Elin attend. The writer drags up the rear of the class, as would be expected, but reports that Tiger, a confessed spearfisherman, makes it to 4 minutes on the pool static breath hold and later hits 100 feet on the final ocean dives.
I took the course in Miami in 2003 and learned a lot from instructors Kirk Krack and Martin Stepanek. I looked back at my log and recalled that 5 of us also made it past 100 feet and to as deep as 123 feet. We would have had at least 4 more make 100 feet if some bad ears and the sea lice in May had not taken out some of the students.
I'm not happy with the small spearfishing side bar article they stuck in with it.
"Free-Diving's Even More Gonzo Cousin" by Owen West is an aggrandizing piece of fluff about shark dangers. West also states "I'm proud to say I've never used a tank - which real spearos consider unsporting."
Other than those shortcomings, I'm still glad to see another largely positive diving story get into a mainstream magazine.
I'd highly recomend the PFD course.
This same issue of Men's Journal also has a mixed diving, surfing, kayaking and fishing article I've yet to read, entitled "Discovering the Caribbean's Wilde Side."
Yet another article is about kayaking in the Galapagos Islands.
Good reading material while the wind blows.
Chad
I took the course in Miami in 2003 and learned a lot from instructors Kirk Krack and Martin Stepanek. I looked back at my log and recalled that 5 of us also made it past 100 feet and to as deep as 123 feet. We would have had at least 4 more make 100 feet if some bad ears and the sea lice in May had not taken out some of the students.
I'm not happy with the small spearfishing side bar article they stuck in with it.
"Free-Diving's Even More Gonzo Cousin" by Owen West is an aggrandizing piece of fluff about shark dangers. West also states "I'm proud to say I've never used a tank - which real spearos consider unsporting."
Other than those shortcomings, I'm still glad to see another largely positive diving story get into a mainstream magazine.
I'd highly recomend the PFD course.
This same issue of Men's Journal also has a mixed diving, surfing, kayaking and fishing article I've yet to read, entitled "Discovering the Caribbean's Wilde Side."
Yet another article is about kayaking in the Galapagos Islands.
Good reading material while the wind blows.
Chad