Freediving happening – 1st & 2nd August 2026

Freediving happening. FSE logo.

A freediving happening featuring many underwater activities.

Date

Starts Saturday August 1st
Ends around 4 PM Sunday August 2nd


FREEDIVING HAPPENING CONTENT

Freediving flea market, excursions, depth diving (up to 35 meters), participation in games competitions, test equipment, yoga, sauna, bonfire, film, sleeping place (bring sleeping bag).

Game competitions

  • Guess-your-depth
  • Breath holding – Magic 3
  • CNF Noseclip only
  • VWT
  • Depth relay
  • Team breath holding
  • Underwater treasure hunt
  • Other

Booking

Indicate your personal best in depth diving with fins.
Also indicate your 2025 personal best, if it is different.
Indicate your personal best in static breath holding.
Indicate if you have a dive partner with you.


Payment

70 €
Bank Giro: 5609-0384
STATE name and “Jippo26”

Equipment/suit can be rented: 30€

Bring training clothes and bed linen. Soft clothes for stretching and hat and jacket for boat excursion.

You can also come here and camp in your own tent/van, water and outhouse are available.

Bring your own food for the grill or buy food from us 20€ per day.


Possible schedule

(all activities are weather dependent)

SATURDAY

11.00 Own warm-up in pairs

12.00 Breath holding – Magic 3
Everyone starts simultaneously in static breath holding, the one who ends their breath hold closest to 3 minutes…wins.

12.15 Own diving in pairs.
Lines at 10, 20, 30 meters

13.00 Guess-your-depth

On an unmarked depth line you shall swim down to what you think is 15 meters. Do not touch the line. The one who is closest…wins.
May be repeated two times.

14.00 Depth relay in teams (FSE makes the teams)
Teams of three. 3×15 meters. Swim or pull yourself down to 15 meters and up again and switch to the next participant through hand clap above the surface.
May be repeated two times.

15.00 Sled riding
Stand without fins on a bottom weight and be lowered down, release when you want, pull yourself up. Not competition. One chance.

15.00 Underwater treasure hunt in pairs. Find things at different depths on the bottom. 3-20 meters. Area 100×20 meters. Stones in colors of gold 5 points, silver 3 points, white 1 point.

17.00 Diving ends

18.00 Sauna

20.00 Dinner, bonfire in the Tavern. Calculation of score standings.


SUNDAY

9.00 Yoga

10.00 Breakfast in the tavern.

11.00 Own warm-up in pairs.

11.00 Underwater treasure hunt in pairs. Find things at different depths on the bottom. 3-20 meters. Area 100×20 meters. Stones in colors of gold 5 points, silver 3 points, white 1 point.

12.00 Team breath holding
In teams of three hold your breath as long as you can in relay. Longest total time wins. Next participant must be under the surface before the next diver comes up.

12.30 Depth relay in teams (FSE makes the teams)
Teams of three. 3×15 meters. Swim, or pull yourself down to 15 meters and up again and switch to the next participant through hand clap above the surface.
May be repeated two times.

13.00 CNF Noseclip only
As deep as you can with only nose clip and swimsuit. No mask, no suit. This category has a special prize.

13.00 Sled riding
Stand without fins on a bottom weight and be lowered down, release when you want, pull yourself up. Not competition. One chance.

13.00 Underwater treasure hunt in pairs. Find things at different depths on the bottom. 3-20 meters. Area 100×20 meters. Stones in colors of gold 5 points, silver 3 points, white 1 point.

15.00 Diving ends

16.00 Meeting at the farm, prize ceremony.
All performances are counted together (approximately 12 competition efforts). Your placements in each competition.



First part of three

An article about extreme training in freediving.

A Dutch family settling at Hästekasen

The village is growing

At Hästekasen village now live Martijn and Jessica with their two boys Bela and Joes and their dog Bram.

They have left their boat-house in the Netherlands to live on the Swedish country side.

They have made the red house their own and make the neighbourhood liveful and the garden blossom.

Welkom allemaal !

Meet the family

Jessica is an artist and art professor. Skilled in many techniques, she is notably passionate about ceramics.

Martijn is a farmer who is knowledgeable about both plants and agriculture as well as animals. He especially loves cows.

Bela and Joes are not finished with exploring the farm’s treasures.


Follow their Swedish adventures on their Instagram


New projects

As soon as spring began, Martijn and Jessica started farming and exploring the farm’s soil and which crops would thrive best where.

They follow biodynamic farming method and want to start a community supported agriculture system (CSA) where the community and people from outside can harvest a variety of crops.

They have some farm animals, like chickens and ducks, and hopefully cows in the future.

Jessica is also making balms, herb teas and soaps from herbs and flowers from the land.

Around this, they also want to offer educational workshops, both in agriculture and in art – like ceramics and making paint from plants.


Stay updated on our social media and website to know more about their coming projects.

New tiny house – 2025 : the Hästekasen library

This summer 2025, Hästekasen members and volunteers have created a new DIY off grid tiny house for the village : a circular wooden library.


The Hästekasen library

The Hästekasen library has a view on a peaceful meadow, a 12 V off grid electrical system, comfy armchairs and a roaring fire stove. It is the perfect place for a lonely read by the window during winter, a fancy fika between friends, a quiet work session on the computer, for a focused chess game and even a meditation session.

Thanks to our concept “one volunteer brings one book” as well as the generous donation from one of our members, the Hästekasen library contains not less than 5000 books of all genres and many languages (even though a majority is in Swedish).

From the floor to the ceiling, you are not finished exploring the richness of this new place !


An off-grid show case

With two solar pannels on the roof and two 12V batteries connected in series, the Hästekasen library is also a pedagogical show case for simple DIY off grid electrical systems. It is included in our study visits.

It is the 4th Hästekasen tiny house to be off grid. You can use the electricity for the lamp as well as charging your phone and computer. Any 12V device can be plugged in.


Library quest

In Swedish only

We offer a literary challenge between friends among our 5000 books. A fun quest where you solve riddles, discover new books as well as rediscover the classics and may learn something about your friends’ literary tastes.

2-4 hours

20€/person
min. 3 people – max. 6 people.


Follow our library updates

Our facebook group regularly features some selected books from our library.

Join us to stay updated on our readings and maybe join a future book club.