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#1
February 20th, 2008
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New to the sport of freediving after 20 years of scuba. I'm getting into it mainly to spearfish. I have access to a 14ft. pool at the dive shop and a lake close by. Only one pool session and a trip to the lake so far. Bottom times suck at this point of course and thats ok. In my search for training help and I discovered this site and found there to be some very helpfull information and encouragement given. I was already into the gym thing so the cardio and iron work is there. I'm a middle aged man 55 and in great shape. If it wasn't for the hair loss and a no desire to waste money I'd still be chasing college girls. Anyway, the help I've received so far is quite generic but helpfull, relax,and keep calm, slow deep breaths exhaling everything than breath and dive. I've read several different approches here to building bottom time and am not set in anything structured as yet except for what I just mentioned. All I want to do is build bottom time to a max depth of 30ft. and probably but less at this point. My relaxed static max was 1:30 but hanging onto a cleat at 14ft. is 35sec not including the slow down and up trip. I'm not unhappy with that, in fact it was quite cool, I felt the hunter. It was what was missing from scuba.
So, if there is a trainer that would like to guide a newbie I'm all ears and will do the work. Thanks from Arizona 
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#2
February 20th, 2008
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Welcome to DeeperBlue! Your definately in the right spot to LEARN. Take peoples advice. There are lots of knowledgeable people on here that can help you. Hopefully you can even find a fellow freediver to dive/train with.
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------Scott DeeperBlue.com Regional Advisor Every man dies. Not every man really lives. - WILLIAM WALLACE WISCONSIN SPEARGUN HUNTERS http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=689513580&ref=name
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February 20th, 2008
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Cheers old man haha! j/k, Ill be 45 next month.
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"Live your own life, for you will die your own death" Roman proverb... http://www.beyondselfnow.com/
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#4
February 20th, 2008
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Nice to hear that you feel more of a hunter as a freediver than while doing scuba. There are a lot of threads with passionate opinions on both side of the scuba/freediver debate. It's nice to hear a fresh unbiased opinion. And welcome to DB, I just joined a few months ago and it has replaced youtube as my favorite internet site.
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“You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die." - Frank Herbert
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#5
February 25th, 2008
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Thanks gentlemen....it's going ok. Just working out and putting as much pool time I can before my first freedive trip. Heading down to San Carlos,Mexico with some friends in the middle of March. Probably won't have much bottom time by then but it's also about friends,laughs and the trip. Maybe a lost yellow tail or something else will slow down just enough for directions for the a freediving novice.
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