Australian Pool & Para-Freediving Nationals 2025

What a roller-coaster.
Not the fun-park kind — the kind where you train for months, visualise every detail, arrive ready… and then realise the tracks h...

1996 — Slovakia. A cold, dark, communist-era pool. Uninviting, but familiar. A team of nine elite swimmers and me, 17 years old. I remember feeling the weakest of them all. The goal: to swim more than...

Last weekend, I stood on the pool deck in Sydney, ready to compete in two disciplines that have shaped much of my freediving journey: Dynamic with a monofin (DYN) and Dynamic No Fins (DNF).

Four year...

Have you ever been to a place so remote you don’t see another human for days?

A place where the night sky stretches on forever, the Milky Way spills across the sky like paint, and silence is louder t...

May 31, 2:30am, Melbourne. Competition day. Pounding headache, nausea, and barely any sleep behind me. The kind of day where the logical choice is to stay in bed and regroup. And I very nearly did.

M...

In freediving, and in life, it’s easy to fall into the trap of chasing numbers—time, distance, depth. These goals are clear, measurable, and sometimes necessary, especially when we’re working toward a...