Posts by Dan

Thanks Chad :dumb: If anyone has a picture of it please post it here.

Didn't hau say somewhere that he spray painted it with sparkles and that the white provided a great base color? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

I forgot it was a mid handle, I've been thinking about my gun lately. What keeps it in place and guides the sliding? I'm asking in case there's a diagram. It may be too much to explain in words.

Why does the trigger look like it's made of the same material as the trigger guard?

I really liked watching these vids, post more when you can. The nice thing about this vs. MMA is that there's no lull in the action.

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I lost my first match due to a pin by the guy in the first video. The second match I won by choking the guy and making him tap out. I am glad you guys enjoyed the videos.

I don't understand, I thought you won those two matches with an ippon? Have the rules changed, it used to be you'd automatically win with an ippon, and those throws looked pretty clean to me.

I did a little searching and found what appears to be the Turks and Caicos official fishery website http://www.environment.tc/Recent-Regulations.html I'm attaching a PDF file which is their fishing regulations. The pertinent regulations I found in there are the following which starts with "No person shall..".

More.

It's hard sometimes to make sense of the regulations, but it can be interpreted that spearfishing with a sling is legal when you have a commercial fishing license?

My understanding is that Pantoja was on a commercial fishing vessel and was using a sling.

You're doing it for 4 months!? :@ Those were sweet ippons. Your entries are fast and committed, you also had a couple of good transitions. Both those guys were bigger than you. If indeed you're doing it for such a short time then you obviously have talent for the sport. How to hell do you get a blue belt in 4 months? Did your coach give it to you for the tournament?

I started out with judo when I was a kid. It's a beautiful sport and gave me a big advantage when I moved to jiu jitsu and dabbled in MMA. The majority of guys in MMA do not know how to handle judo from standup. It will take a while to get rid of the bad habit acquired in judo of giving away your back once you go to ground, if you move to jiu jitsu which I recommend you eventually do. Thanks for sharing the vids, very interesting and inspired me to go training which I haven't done in a few weeks.

It was yesterday and it was terrible fish wise. But then we bought more ice than usual.. Manuel got the fish of the day, a 2-3lb pargo.

Marco, I'd like to say thanks to you for having talked about the mask breathing before. Fortunately there are plenty of things left for us to disagree about

As far as the looking at the bottom.. we talked about it before here. I think it depends on what you're diving. If you have a specific target then yes I agree. But most of our diving is fairly flat reef, we have to spot the fish before we get to the bottom, especially in current. The best adjustment I can make to become streamlined is looking backwards instead of forwards when there's not current.

A proposito tu amigo Manuel es buena gente.

Good price on the fins. Can you please post a close up pic of the end of footpocket tendons, I see something shiny there and I'm curious what that is. Also please post a pic of the bottom side of the blades if you can.

I can pack, use a swallowing motion to bring down more air right? one time with a snorkel. I use it infrequently to stretch out my lungs or diaphragm (not sure which get's stretched), it allows me to achieve that relaxed feeling I look for before I dive when I can't seem to achieve it with a normal breath up.

This is an interesting point Luv, where is the balance between low volume and the possibility of getting a breath out of the mask. I use an omer abyss and it seemed about right for this application. With a Technisub micormask, being of much lower volume, you'd spend less air equalizing it but may not be able to get a breath. With that big mask you posted too much air may need to be used to equalize which will offset any advantage of getting air out of it on ascent.

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When you say "I get a breath out of the mask" does this feel like a normal breath you would take on the surface or is it more of just a hint of extra o2.

Neither. It feels like a breath that you'd like to take or about to take but cut short. The immediate sensation is that you didn't get enough or hardly anything at all. But a few seconds later you realize that you did get something out of it.

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If i could pack through my snorkel, i sure as hell would be doing that too.

Please explain this. Are you saying that packing is effective but that you can't use it because you can't pack through a snorkel? Why not?

I discovered mask breathing today and I believe it will change my diving significantly from now on. Mask breathing was mentioned here before by Marco and recently Greekdiver. I'm a skeptic of most tricks that improve diving. After the first time Marco mentioned it I gave it a weak attempt for a couple of reasons and it didn't work. First I hardly breathe through my nose at any time, I have a deviated septum which blocks my nasal passages and %95 of my breathing is with my mouth. I suppose this makes breathing only through a snorkel not a big deal for me. The second thing is that I was worried subconsciously that I'll inhale water through my nose at depth, so when I tried it I did a weak inhale, like a sniff, and got nothing out of it.

Today for some reason without much contemplation I tried it again. The difference was that this time I sucked hard which made the mask squeeze into my face, and I got a breath out of it. For the rest of the day, we did a lot of deep stuff, I was getting one breath out of the mask at around 45ft and another at around 15ft. One way of describing the feeling is that it feels like cheating, like it's no longer freediving.

This is what it feels like for me. Say I'm diving to 70ft, I hang there for just a little bit and start to feel uncomfortable, maybe get the hiccups. That's a definite sign to start heading up although ideally you shouldn't wait that long. On the way up I start to feel an urgency to get to the surface, and a relief when finally getting to the surface and taking that breath. Taking a mask breath it works like this; same thing to the point that I feel I should start up, suck some air out of the mask at 45ft and any discomfort and urgency is gone, getting to 15ft another breath just for the hell of it, I get to the surface with no rush and take a calm breath. I feel like I'm ready for another descent sooner. And like a residual affect I'm calmer on the bottom on the next dive knowing that I can breath the air in the mask on the way up yet not counting on it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this is a magic fix to go deeper or have more bottom time. As to the actual physiology of it; I don't know how much of that mask air actually gets to the lungs, maybe it just helps push down air that's already close to the lungs, I don't know but I sure felt the difference. I believe that if you dive deep without this trick you will dive even deeper or the same but more comfortably using it. It also didn't feel like an advanced technique. I wonder how many guys that dive deep use this and don't mention it. I believe I just extended my hunting range to 90ft without having changed anything else about my diving technique.

I was going to say 20-25lb looking at the pic. Congrats Frank, cubera is my favorite fish to shoot.

I sense a new avatar coming up I wish I had something like that for mine.

I'd like to answer your question but as of yet I haven't seen a pattern. Today for example the water was very dirty out to about 2? miles, past that there was an abrupt change for the better. You could actually cruise the edge of the crappy water, current permitting.

Don't rub it in Larry

Yes, the father being on the boat touched me as well. Dive safe everyone.

Wow Davie, you blew me away with this report. Congrats on the gag. Good for you guys finally hitting the jackpot. I'm guessing you'll be going out of Stuart again soon.

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I think it's a great idea

Yeah, I shouldn't have been so critical without saying that it is a very creative and well engineered piece of gear. It's just that I've already considered it previously.