Gjøvik Sports Award 2009

The freediving year of 2009 finished off very well, as I got a letter saying that I had won a sports award from my home town Gjøvik. It was the first time they gave out "Gjøvik kommunes Idrettspris", so it was even a little bit historic. I'm very honored to recieve the price and hope for a good year in 2010 as well.

Easter in Gjøvik

After spending a weekend in Bergen, I took the train over the mountains and down to Gjøvik where I spent the easter with my family. After having got used to the danish winter, it was great to be able to go snow boarding or just having fun in the meters of snow that's still left. Jiiiha!

Visiting Gjøvik

I was having some days without any lessons at school in front of my anatomy exam, so I thought I might as well take my books to Norway and study there while seeing friends and family.

Strange enough, nothing seemed to have changed much! It was very nice though :)

Murky Mjøsa

So diving at home is possible and it is fun, after all!

For the first time ever since I started freediving, I have actually been diving (not just dipping) in the lake that is right next door, in Mjøsa. It is the largest lake in Norway and my home town Gjøvik is located at its shore.

Now, if you are diving with a freediver who is as crazy about that element as you are, the water can be really mirky and really scary, but you will dive and finde the bottom! And so we did. I must admid, without that little flash light on mymask, I would not have dared it but now my new personal home diving CWT record is: -26m!!!

And it is dark down there... ;)

A fish tank in Mjøsa

What do you do if you are a tv reporter planning to intervju a freediver? You would want to get some cool video, but what if you don't have an underwater camera and camera man (also called Diver)... Well, then you go to the closest Pet Shop and ask to borrow a huge aquarium.

This was actually the case when the local tv station wanted to make a report about me 26.july -06, shot in the local lake of Mjøsa.

So they had me talking, putting on my gear and swim around a little for the camera. But what don't you do for the sport, right? Was fun with the aquarium though :)