Anna Thüring

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Nothing compares to the water in formentera ✨ 📷 @jay.underwater #formentera #paradise #underwaterphotography #freediveart #freediving #breathhold #apnoe #apnea #mediterranean #baleares #balearic #balearicislands #beach #beachlife #freedive #freedivinggirl #underwater #free #bikini #sea #ocean #mediterraneansea

I did it!! I am a freediving instructor 😁🩵 After almost 2 months of studying and training intensively with many ups and downs I am so proud to have mastered all the required skills (last one missing was diving to -40m) and exams. I am beyond excited to be able to share my passion for freediving and start my own freediving school in Ibiza @freedivingibiza !! 😍 Let’s go diving together 🩵 📷 @jay.ibiza.photographer #freediving #freedivingibiza #ibizafreediving #apnoe #apnea #freedivinggirls #freedivegirl #freedive #girlsthatfreedive #freedivekohtao #freedivingcommunity #freedivinginstructor #islandlife #ocean #oceangirl #oceanlover #ibiza #ibiza2024 #underwater

This isn’t a hobby. I’d say eating is my hobby #freediving #freedivingibiza #ibiza

Ready to dive in. Are you? 🩵 📷 @camillas.jpeg #freediving #freedivingibiza #ibiza

Congratulations to @baltazar_gadda for winning the grand prize of THE WATER JUNKIE contest. Lovely feeling, lovely shots, beautiful voiceover and mesmerizing flow. #mixpro Congrats @anna_thuering

Every dive is a reminder of how beautiful this world is below the surface, but also how fragile 🩵 Proud to be an ambassador for @diversfortheocean , part of the @seashepherd family. They do incredible work protecting our oceans, but they can’t do it alone. You can help too. Spread the word. Donate. Join a beach or underwater cleanup. Pick up trash when you see it. Every little bit counts! Let’s protect our underwater world together 🩵 #diversfortheocean #seashepherd #oceanconservation freediving #freedivingibiza

In love with you, the island and our life together ✨

And just like that the season is on and I am kinda busy ✨🩵 #freediving #freedivingibiza #ibiza #apnea

Freediving is all in the mind 🧠 Especially in the pool! In open water you are focused on depth, on the line, on the descent. But in the pool the surface is right there the whole time. Every single metre you have to decide to keep going. Unlike in open water, there is no depth, no target, no pressure telling your body when to stop. It is purely a mental game from start to finish. Just you, negotiating with yourself the whole way. Of course at some point we do have to surface 😅 But the whole practice is about learning to not give up on the first urge to breathe, about staying a little longer when it gets uncomfortable. Learning to trust that you are stronger than your mind is telling you in that moment. 🩵 #freediving #dnf #apnea #freedivingibiza

Seeing your own face in the local newspaper is surreal. Especially when it’s portraying something you are deeply passionate about. 🩵 @diario_de_ibiza published a beautiful piece on freediving in Ibiza, printed and online, in Spanish and English. Written by @avilarcaro who managed to capture freediving and the experience in a way that I couldn’t have said better myself, and I am so proud to be part of it. Thank you Caro!! 🫶🏻 What makes me so happy about this article is that it shows the sport for what it really is: A practice of self discovery and connection with the sea. Not an extreme sport, not just for athletes. And that there is a whole other side to Ibiza that most people never get to see. That is exactly why I am here and what FREEDIVING IBIZA is about 🩵 Full article in the link in bio, worth a read whether you are a (soon to be) freediver or just curious 🐟

I cried in a pool in Brussels. And then I got first place. 🥇 This weekend I competed at the Belgian National Freediving Championships, because the German nationals didn’t work out for me logistically I trained for almost 3 months in the pool, lost my motivation inbetween and got sick 2 weeks before the comp… 🫠 so I didn’t arrive in my best form. Day 1 STA — no movement, just breathhold It’s a pure relaxation and mental discipline and I was SO not relaxed. Not my best moment, we move on 😅 DNF — no fins Usually my thing, but my goggles broke during warm-up so I switched to an old backup pair with dark lenses, badly scratched. The pool was very shallow on one side and quite dark, while diving I misjudged the distance to the floor, came up too high, lost my buoyancy and struggled to get back down. I surfaced at 75m, not a big dive for me, and got a red card on top of it because parts of my body had broken the surface. Disqualified. 😩 I sat at the side of that pool and cried. Properly cried. I had trained for this, I had a goal for that dive, and it didn’t work out, I messed it up. Real low point. Day 2 Freediving is 80% mental so I had to make a new strategy. I had to leave day 1 behind and start fresh. Knowing it couldn’t go worse helped! 😂 And I really wanted to prove it, to myself mostly, that I can do much better! DYN — monofin 140m, a massive new personal best and first place in the category 🥇😁I got a yellow card for a bad start so penalty points and 1m deducted, but the dive counted, the PB stands and it felt amazing 😁 And if I were Belgian it would be a new national record 😏 DYNB — bifins Got a white card ✅ but I was so tired after my big monofin dive that I did not do a huge distance. 2 white cards, 1 yellow, 1 red, a new PB and first place DYN. For my second ever competition I am really happy with that, even if I had higher goals. I definitely learned a lot and am so not done yet 😂 Thank you @enkicoaching 💙 Thank you to @aidabelgium for creating such an amazing event and especially to @hakim_elkholy the best deliverer of bad news 😂 Mostly thank you my love @panyer.music , couldn’t do this without you ❤️