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Anyone else here who can't live without being in and on the water every week?

I get grumpy and irritable if I don't get a regular dose of salt water. Just had a cold and stayed out of the water for a couple of weeks.

Stumbled across a freediving video clip and can't stop watching it again and again

Light + water = magic http://youtu.be/TqOqCVWWM2A

I wouldn't say I can't live without being in the water but I will defiantly tell you that freediving(I think) is the sport for an aspie. back when I was a teenager, long before I ever knew that I was an aspie. I was big into freediving. I was able to swim down to 50 ft, swim 100 meters length in a pool and hold my breath for 3 minutes. I haven't done it since after I turn 18. Now, over 20 years later and after I got my diagnosis. I am back in to it again. I am now able to do about half of what I use to be able to do. I now can to 1:30 breath hold and swim 50 meters. the pool at the gym is only 10 feet but I did a 30ft dive in the river to the bottom. I would like to get my skills back to what they where when I was a teen but I never seem to have the time to train and being in a pool is kinda boring. I miss the lake.

Great to hear you are getting back into freediving. I also did it whenever I could when I was a teenager and in my twenties, also down to 15 or 17 metres. Later, together with my wife I did quite a bit of scuba diving, but I agree there is something special about freediving. It also seems that over the years freediving techniques have been developed quite a bit, and now there are dedicated instructors and resorts that offer courses at various levels.

I'm not a terribly fast swimmer, and my swimming style is all over the place. As a small kid I learnt swimming basically by diving and coming up for air every two or three strokes. Even today when I go swimming, I tend to end up diving.

Do you have a reliable freediving buddy? Don't get yourself in danger with freediving, which is all too easy!

I live close to the ocean, 1.5km to the beach, and these days I'm mostly on the water on a windsurfer. After three hours on the water my batteries are fully recharged.

Other water based activities I enjoy include snorkelling, seakayaking, standup paddleboarding, sailing, surfing, rowing, and snorkelling.

I like freediving as well. I've never really measured how deep I can dive, but I can swim about 50m without coming up for air. I love being underwater. Below the surface it is so ... calm, so beautiful, that I feel at peace, balanced-minded, relaxed. It might be to do with the pressure, or the feel of the water, or the solitude (which makes me wonder ... is it an aspie thing?). This helps as I am able to remain very calm underwater, slowing my heartbeat and conserving oxygen. I wish I could stay underwater for longer than a few minutes.

I believe it is and that's why I have gotten back into it again. Back in my teenage years. I would dive down to 40ft and just sit there as calm and still as I can to conserve O2. I remember how good the pressure of the water felt on my torso. That said. Once I learned I has AS and was doing research on it. I learned about autism and weighted blankets and that was the eureka moment that got me back into freediving again.

I drink tons and tons of water. Partly because for weight training you need a lot of water for recovery,, and it's good for suppressing appetite when you are trying to lose fat.

I've also read that drinking water increases focus and energy.