williamtrubridge
The Underwater Marathon
A lazy Freediver I’m not an endurance athlete. I’ve never run more than 10km or surface-swum more than 4km. As a teenager I cycled a...
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World Championships.... again!
Someone’s got to say it. The “Freediving World Champs” has lost its charm. There used to be a time, in what seems like a different age of...
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A plea to FreeJuicers
For those looking for gossip or scandal I’m sorry to disappoint: this post won’t out any athletes, or point a finger. I spend most of my...
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Oxygen - a memoir by William Trubridge
The following is an excerpt from my autobiography, published in 2017. It's available for purchase as an ebook from Amazon, and in...
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Mental Techniques for 102 meters
It was the first CNF dive beyond halfway into Dean's Blue Hole. 55 of my body lengths, or 9 meters more than the height of the Statue of...
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Teachers
We stand on the shoulders of our forbears (especially the shoulders of whoever first spoke those words). As a toddler learning to swim...
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The Breatheup
One of my pet worries as a freediver is that someone will call me out, and say “I heard you can hold your breath for eight minutes. Go on...
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Dread, and other stimuli
Dear weakest link, Today I discovered who you are and where you live. Rest assured that I'm going to be coming round very often from now...
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The bane of 'natural ability'
10/10/2010 I once heard an anecdote about Russian trainers screening children to become gymnasts. They asked them all to jump off the...
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Confidence
5/5/2008 Every athlete will have experienced the day where, from the moment you wake up, each smallest thing that happens seems designed...