Organizing this competition was a great experience. The hard part was competing myself whilst keeping the comp going. Every athlete helped with safety, judging, filming, shouting the countdown etc. In addition to the athletes I had 2 good helpers from the club, Georgios and Roman and of course my Sandra was also helping out. Titus was working for free that night which helped us financially. And he was also getting "everything" we needed. Thanks! We had a freediving competition with 12 athletes, two diciplines only 4 helpers and made this in 1hour 35min. Efficient!! Next time we`ll have alot more time in between I hope.
Østfoldbadet was great and the conditions were excellent. We even had a reporter there for the first 15min. Unfortunately (I think?) he got very good pictures of the only athlete having a blackout. He was out for almost 10 seconds I think. In the second round of static I was up. I really wanted to make a personal best. (5:32) And more than that I wanted to piss on Steinars National record! (6:09) In dynamic No warm-up and No breathe-up have made wonders for me. But since I`m just crap at static I did warm-ups and and quite severe hyperventilation just to postpone those contractions. I actually prefer doing 4min dynamics instead of 4 min statics. Anyway, everything went ok. Contractions at 3:15 instead of 1:20 and I made it to 6:13 or 6:14. Not yet confirmed. I was very happy of course but it was also very close to a blackout. When the judge (Elisabeth) told me the time, I thought she was kidding with me. I was sure it was 5:50! Nice surprise. For the dynamic I was not sure if I was back to normal after the rough static. It felt ok, but it also felt very different from a normal dynamic so I went up at 153m. Afterwards I was happy I ended it there. So... Gold medal for me, silver for Steinar "Shaggy" Schjager and bronze for Trond Klimek. Here are the rest of the results:
| Utøver | Sta | Dyn | Total poeng | Plass |
| Bjarte Nygard | 6'12 | 153 | 150,9 | GULL |
| Steinar Schjager | 5'14 | 126 | 125,8 | SØLV |
| Trond Klimek | 4'01 | 82 | 89,2 | BRONSE |
| Eivind Kristoffersen | 2'50 | 109 | 88,5 | 4 |
| Terje Brandshaug | 3'13 | 64 | 70,6 | 5 |
| Simen Sørensen | 3'45 | 60 | 70 | 6 |
| Fredrik Naumann | 2'37 | 55 | 58,9 | 7 |
| Gordon McNair | 4'13 | 60 | 50,6 | 8 |
| Sveinar | 4'40 | 100 | 50 | 9 |
| Utøver | Sta | Dyn | Total poeng | Plass |
| Elisabeth Kristoffersen | 4'03 | 142 | 119,6 | GULL |
| Maria Hovden | 4'48 | 109 | 112,1 | SØLV |
| Linn | 0'39 | 25 | 20,3 | BRONSE |
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Bjarte, are you losing that Buddha belly of yours? You look skinnier in those pictures. That would be a tragic loss, we like your rotundness.
Congratulations on organizing and your new pb. One thing though, you got Steinar's nickname wrong: it's Rock Hard Shagger, not Shaggy. Zoinks!
I set my goals for 2010. It`s not to be a better freediver, it`s to look more like one. So my super-hydrodynamic belly/bulb will have to go. If my performance goes down now I have a good excuse to drop the cardio and get into the sweets again. Steinars wife is on a vacation now so he is harder than ever.
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