Greetings to all,
I've just come back from Thailand where I spent 3 months living on Koh Tao, next door to their free diving champions - the blue eyed german giant Roland and his spanish mate whose name escapes me. Both are gentlemen and both are always eager to go out in their longtail to spearfish.
I wish I had taken a course whilst I was on Koh Tao but I was loving hanging out with these two and watching them freedive. I don't think I learn't anything practical. Just loved their silence.
I would often come up and down three times before they would come to the surface. I used to love watching them float ethereally below me. Not a muscle moving.
Very zen.
I then did a month in a local Thai monastery - enjoying the silence, enjoying the meditation, enjoying basic food - but found it hard to enjoy the wooden bed and wooden pillow.
Not very nice.
I met a hot french girl called Sophie I think - she was french and very into her free diving. She was doing a course and I remember thinking that I would love to do this course. I didn't do it and now I realise it was because I was afraid of where it might take me. She spoke of almost blacking out and to be honest that terrified me. Anyone felt that way?
Truth is I have been freediving, surfing and ocean swimming for twenty years so I should have packed the fear away, bitten the bullet and done the course.
Decided that I love the silence, love the sea and love meditation. In short I need to get into this freediving armed with more information. So you guys are a godsend! Thanks.
So where to start?
I have the cash to fly to a country and do a course. I live in Australia and can go east or west. Thailand, Indonesia, Hawaii, Fiji, the pacific islands (too many to name) or perhaps here in Australia?
Any suggestions?
I also would like to know if practicing holding your breath, holding your breath for long periods of time and the associated techniques of freediving - is all this good for your health or bad for your health?
Should I start a thread on this? (I did a search and found nothing so far) and if so where would someone suggest I start it.
Thanks to anyone who reads my hello.
Nice to be here
thankyou
Rhinocerus
I've just come back from Thailand where I spent 3 months living on Koh Tao, next door to their free diving champions - the blue eyed german giant Roland and his spanish mate whose name escapes me. Both are gentlemen and both are always eager to go out in their longtail to spearfish.
I wish I had taken a course whilst I was on Koh Tao but I was loving hanging out with these two and watching them freedive. I don't think I learn't anything practical. Just loved their silence.
I would often come up and down three times before they would come to the surface. I used to love watching them float ethereally below me. Not a muscle moving.
Very zen.
I then did a month in a local Thai monastery - enjoying the silence, enjoying the meditation, enjoying basic food - but found it hard to enjoy the wooden bed and wooden pillow.
Not very nice.
I met a hot french girl called Sophie I think - she was french and very into her free diving. She was doing a course and I remember thinking that I would love to do this course. I didn't do it and now I realise it was because I was afraid of where it might take me. She spoke of almost blacking out and to be honest that terrified me. Anyone felt that way?
Truth is I have been freediving, surfing and ocean swimming for twenty years so I should have packed the fear away, bitten the bullet and done the course.
Decided that I love the silence, love the sea and love meditation. In short I need to get into this freediving armed with more information. So you guys are a godsend! Thanks.
So where to start?
I have the cash to fly to a country and do a course. I live in Australia and can go east or west. Thailand, Indonesia, Hawaii, Fiji, the pacific islands (too many to name) or perhaps here in Australia?
Any suggestions?
I also would like to know if practicing holding your breath, holding your breath for long periods of time and the associated techniques of freediving - is all this good for your health or bad for your health?
Should I start a thread on this? (I did a search and found nothing so far) and if so where would someone suggest I start it.
Thanks to anyone who reads my hello.
Nice to be here
thankyouRhinocerus
