Confined, deconfined, reconfined, sometimes disheartened and demoralized but never out of creativity! In this peculiar period of health crisis affecting us, some free divers have overflowed with initiatives to continue their free diving training. And an incredible solidarity has been organized to allow as many people as possible to continue practicing their favorite activity, without disregarding the precautionary measures!
Nearly 2 years after the first lockdown that marked the beginning of the current health crisis, although associative clubs could once again open the doors to swimming pools, the recovery remains timid and especially without any guarantee of sustainability. At the time of writing, it’s impossible to know if the beginning of 2022 will be under better auspices than the previous two years, but let’s hope you can discover this issue of your favorite magazine by the pool, after entering without a pass or mask! It’s still permissible to dream…
In the meantime, we offer you an overview of the associative initiatives that have helped forget that water contact can sometimes seem quite distant!
Breton Friendliness: RSSM in Force
In Brittany, the RSSM club (Rennes Sports Sous-Marins) has lived up to its reputation as a resistant Gaul! The largest club in the region, with its 330 licensed members including international level hockey players and national level target shooters, also includes a spearfishing and an apnea section.
This latter, led weekly by Grégory Quétier, MEF1, and Eric Chaumont, MF2 Spearfishing, IE1 apnea and Target Shooting Initiator, found other tools to continue their training. Grégory has thus maintained the regular Friday evening slot to offer licensed and motivated free divers the opportunity to continue their training routine from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m., maintaining a form of stability in this context where everything was organizational chaos: pools open, then closed, then reopened under conditions, dates shifted, then canceled and postponed… At least one sure thing in this disrupted schedule!
« Practitioners needed an anchor point to maintain a certain mental stability, allowing them to think, during their session, that everything was as before, as if the health crisis did not exist, » confides Grégory.
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