I've started to learn freediving since 2010 with Natalia and Alexey. All trainings with them were always amazing. I even decided to move my family to live next

I've started to learn freediving since 2010 with Natalia and Alexey. All trainings with them were always amazing. I even decided to move my family to live next to the pool (in Moscow) where they do daily training -- to be able to train more often. Every sea training in Dahab was always a LOT of fun and great experience for my whole life. There was always some magic around Natalia – you understand that you're sitting next to one of the greatest humans in the world, who is able to do smth absolutely incredible and it's hard to reflect how deep are the feelings inside you during those moments. Her lectures and discussions were interesting even if you hear it for 2nd or 3rd or 4th time :) I will always remember that parts of my life and it's really smth that is absolutely remarkable and amazing. Those freediving trainings changed my life a lot. They changed how I think about anything what surrounds me: you consider any thing like "it's a part of the huge world", you fall in anger much less often, you become more stable, and strong. I also will always remember when I went to just another training in the pool and right after that realized that Natalia just made yet another world (!) record during Russian competition. Or later, In Kalamata, Greece, in 2011, when she did a couple of depth records, in World Championship.. It was BIG. It was EPIC. Always. Every her move. When I moved to San Francisco a couple of years ago, I was missing freediving and Natalia a lot. It's strange that there is almost no freedivers in SF and Bay area. I see huge potential in this kind of sport for tech guys in California – we are always sitting with our computers and are lacking some way to reboot our mind. Freediving is GREAT way to get rid of everything useless from your brain at the end of every hard day. But maybe the ocean is too cold, or visibility is low.. Don't know, but I hope it'll become popular some day in this part of the world. I should say special words about Alexey. This young guy (28 y.o.) is in his very difficult times these days. He should be strong to go through these days and months and years. He is active World Champion and World Record holder (WR: 128m in depth, with monofin only). But this is very personal and not so difficult as another thing – Natalia built probably the strongest local freediving school (thousands of people graduated) and strong national freediving organization – and the question is whether or not he will find enough power to continue this work. It's hard time... We all loved (and love and will love) Natalia. We wish all the good to Alexey and his sister, Oksana. R.I.P Natalia. Thank you for all you did for us.