From August 30th to September 6th CMAS will organize their first European Apnea Championship in Antalya, Turkey. They will be hosting this competition with 3 different disciplines. First the jump blue, then a dynamic competition and lastly a new experimental speed apnea discipline.
For the people who forgot about CMAS and their intentions to take over the freediving world; everybody is invited to join this competition but if you compete here you need to know that you sell your soul to the devil, because after this it’s forever forbidden to participate in an AIDA competition. You see CMAS has some crazy rule that the only federation that you can freedive with is their own Uber organization. If you still dare to compete with the dark force that is called AIDA then you will be banned from CMAS. Now that’s what I call customer binding!
As most freedivers live up to their name and they want to be free, they mostly ignore this competition. For sure the top freedivers from AIDA will not be there and the level of freediving going on at a CMAS world champion competition is about the same as many national AIDA competitions.
Everybody is free to do what they want, but when an organization is making such stupid rules everybody should ban this competition. Sometimes I wonder what these kind of people are thinking and it brings back memories of one of my favorite cartoons “Pinky and the Brain”
If you absolutely, positively, sureability must have more info about this event, then you can visit their website by clicking on the small dot . (Just to make sure that you’re very sure)
Not that I would oppose your opinion about CMAS (in fact I often spoke against them in even a harsher way), but we should precise some incorrect claims or unprecise formulations from the above article:
You wrote “if you compete here you need to know that you sell your soul to the devil, because after this it’s forever forbidden to participate in an AIDA competition” - that sounds as if either CMAS or AIDA forbid you from participating in AIDA competitions after you participated on the CMAS championship. I see that it was just a unlucky formulation, but those not familiar with the fact may get confused. The exact opposite is true - if you compete in an AIDA competition (or another non-CMAS) competition _and_ in the same time you are a CMAS member, you may not compete in the same discipline at a CMAS competition. The ban is valid only for the running year, and the only common discipline for AIDA and CMAS is DYF (dynamics with fins), so depth disciplines, or statics play no role.
So if you really want to support the CMAS power usurpators, you can always reject your CMAS membership (if you have any - if you do not have, there is no ban) before participating on an AIDA event. You can then take part on the CMAS championship without any risk of disqualification (as for this issue goes). Some Frenchmen, Italians, Spanish, or Greeks - freedivers in countries where the majority of clubs is practically mandatorily under CMAS, may need to resort to such trick if they want to take part on AIDA competitions, but do want to go on competing with CMAS (their club may require it).
Ah, sorry, for all those spelling errors - I am unable to type clean, and I always see the mistakes or typos only after posting. And since this interface does not seem to support post editing, they are condamned to stay there!
thanx for the info about cmas.
Makes me feel bad for getting my freediver *** from these guys.
But there was no option for me here in Norway,not that I knew about anyway..
Do U know if I must have a Aida sertificate to compete in nordic open in sweden in august ?
To compete in Nordic Deep in Sweden in august every year you need to be member of your national AIDA-organisation. If your country don´t have a AIDA-organisation you can always join AIDA-sweden for 15€.
regards
peter@vibafemba.se
member of the board of AIDA-sweden
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