Trevor Hutton Course

[bluecape]

Hi All

Am very excited at the moment. Signed up a while ago for a freediving course over 8 weekends with Trevor Hutton, and we kick off tomorrow morning bright and early in the coastal town of Hermanus.
We have a group of 8 people, all experienced divers / spearo's, and are all looking very forward to reaching new depths and levels of relaxation under the guidance of this former world record holder.
Will keep you updated week by week on the course if anyone is interested...

Rock n Roll!!

Jeff

[trux]

Does Trevor have any website?

[bluecape]

As far as I know he does'nt Trux. He seems like quite a free-spirit. Drifts from location to location, and spends more time in the water than behind a PC.

Jeff

[jimdoe2you]

Awesome Jeff! I wish you the best with this most excellent adventure and will stay tuned to this thread!

[fcallagy]

i,d hazard a guess and say I am not the only envious one here on DB hope you enjoy

[bluecape]

Weekend 1 complete, and what a weekend it was. The group of 7 arrived at the beautiful little coastal town of Hermanus early on Saturday morning, and met with Trevor Hutton at 9am to start the course at the new harbour, the venue of Scuba- Africa. Everything was on-site, small but adequate lecture room, a small but adequate pool, and the ocean.
The training spot in the bay was protected from most winds, and had drop offs to good depths for training. A plus was the occasional unexpected visitor, namely an adult fur-seal and 2 Southern-Right Whales…YES PLEASE!!

The morning was spent in the pool learning how to use a snorkel correctly, including maintenance of a correct surface breathing technique, the continuation, unperterbed, of the same technique with water in the snorkel, snorkel displacement, etc.

We went to the bottom, removed mask, fins and weightbelt, returned to the surface, did breathe up, then returned to the bottom to kit up fully, clearing masks, and returning.
We sat in a circle on the bottom of the pool and swopped masks, passing them around the circle, getting ours back, placing, clearing, then going the other way around. Outside interference from the instructor was not allowed to ‘remove’ us from the ‘zone of absolute peace’, (from now on referred to as ZOAP), that we were being taught to find under water.

The middle of the day was spent in lectures discussing all the laws governing freediving physics, and ensuring that all had a level of understanding.

After lunch, a fantastic afternoon of diving saw the team at 12 meters on breathhold, a first time ever for many of them. Not only were they down there looking so comfortable, but they calmy removed fins, mask, weightbelts, gave the OK to Trevor, and ascended slowly, often being circled by a curious African Fur Seal looking for company. Again, the emphasis was drilling the importance of maintaining a 'ZOAP' during the entire dive, allowing no outside influences to break the calm and cause stress. Correct surfacing techniques were practiced with focus on minimal energy-output.

On Sunday, more drills in the ocean built on the skills of day one, no seals visiting, but 2 huge Southern Right Whales passing by the team caused an unexpected delay and much excitement!

The weekend was rounded off with a game called ‘The Machine’. One diver goes down to a weighted ‘base station’ at about 5 meters, without a mask, and waits. A second diver descends to the station, removes their mask, hands it to the 1st diver, who then has to put it on, clears it, and returns to the surface, leaving the next diver maskless and waiting. The 3rd diver then dives down, and repeats the process. There is therefore always a diver without a mask at the bottom, and he / she may only return with a cleared mask, after leaving someone down. Keeping ‘THE MACHINE’ ticking over on apnea requires discipline, and a huge ZOAP from all involved!

7 tired, but very happy divers drove home. We are looking forward to the next session, and already are feeling the benefits of learning from Trevor.
The above is simply a very brief ‘summary’ of the weekends main activities, and in no way is a step by step brief of the course. Pics are the view of our training area from the classroom, and Trevor watching over a pool session.

Best regards

Jeff

[Faizy]

Hi Jeff
I did Trev's course about a year and half ago.Brilliant!!!!!At the moment I am teaching spearfishing and using Trev's principals.I can proudly tell you all my beginner students went diving from zero to 15m within a week and statics from a 30 s to 2min 30s and some students as high as 3min 10 s.So please practice your ZOAP.Imagine how far these guys can go if their keep on practising.Also please say hi to Trev from Faiz

[bluecape]

Hi Faiz

Thanks buddy, I will pass on your greets for sure! What has amazed me the most is how many 'small' things I have been doing incorrectly over the past 3 or so years, which collectively can add a huge performance benefit once you get them right.
In short, whoever it is with, try to do a freediving course if you are 'self-taught'. Kirk, Umberto, Sebastian, Eric, Trevor or anyone, it does'nt matter, just do a course!

Jeff

[Black Mountain]

hi bluecape - i have been trying to get in touch with Trev for a while - could you pass on my regards and greetings. Found this forum while searching for him online.

[capetownguy]

hey jeff.....
are there still any courses like this? and how much did it cost ya?
im very interested..thanks