Hello from Norway

[MermaidSatine]

Hi I am a 25 year old girl and I joined this forum to connect with other free divers and learn more about the sport I am a beginner myself, wanting to do recreational free diving, apnea with fins. I am a retired competitive swimmer

 

[foxfish]

Hi & welcome to the forum, have fun looking around.

 

[BatRay]

Welcome to Deeperblue!

 

[NoFair]

Velkommen.

 

[Jo_duiker]

Hi and welcome from little Belgium. I'm Aida 2* but I consider myself still a lousy beginner (you'll notice by my recurring posts which are a bit full of frustration from time to time, lol)...

 

[MermaidSatine]

Hi and thanks Belgium! How cool! I have never done freediving, but have always wanted to. I'm going to buy a monofin but still cannot decide which one to go for. Haha, you probably ask questions that im also wondering about, so its all good for me where is the best place you have been diving?

 

[MermaidSatine]

Velkommen.

Thank you

 

[MermaidSatine]

Welcome to Deeperblue!

Thank you

 

[Jo_duiker]

Hi and thanks Belgium! How cool! I have never done freediving, but have always wanted to. I'm going to buy a monofin but still cannot decide which one to go for. Haha, you probably ask questions that im also wondering about, so its all good for me where is the best place you have been diving?

I have done some freediving, but due to personal circumstances (my wife absolutely HATES water), I can not travel to freedive in open water. :-/
So, the best place I've been to for freediving is rather pathetic: it was during my AIDA 2* exam: an indoor pool that was deep enough to do the required depth. Being a very nervous person by nature (which is NOT good for freediving), this was way better than the first open water dives we did during the course where the water temp was 8°C and visbility was about 2m... As this was my first open water dive ever (apart from my PADI open water diver exam 8 years ago), it was quite traumatic.

But don't let me keep you away from freediving with my personal frustrations. It IS a wonderful activity! You're were a competitive swimmer? You should be very comfortable in the water. I would suggest you take a freedving course and begin with bifins (two fins instead of a monofin) and then work your way up (or should I say down?) to a monofin?

 

[Rock Shooter]

Welcome!
Your swimming skills may help you greatly in freediving!
This forum will provide a wealth of resources and people who know what they're doing (not me )

Rock Shooter

 

[MermaidSatine]

Welcome!
Your swimming skills may help you greatly in freediving!
This forum will provide a wealth of resources and people who know what they're doing (not me )

Rock Shooter

Thanks! I am so happy I found this forum I am looking forward to exploring the sport and hopefully get to travel soon so I can do some diving if you have any personal experiences with freediving that I could learn from, I would really appreciate it if you share

 

[MermaidSatine]

I have done some freediving, but due to personal circumstances (my wife absolutely HATES water), I can not travel to freedive in open water. :-/
So, the best place I've been to for freediving is rather pathetic: it was during my AIDA 2* exam: an indoor pool that was deep enough to do the required depth. Being a very nervous person by nature (which is NOT good for freediving), this was way better than the first open water dives we did during the course where the water temp was 8°C and visbility was about 2m... As this was my first open water dive ever (apart from my PADI open water diver exam 8 years ago), it was quite traumatic.

But don't let me keep you away from freediving with my personal frustrations. It IS a wonderful activity! You're were a competitive swimmer? You should be very comfortable in the water. I would suggest you take a freedving course and begin with bifins (two fins instead of a monofin) and then work your way up (or should I say down?) to a monofin?

Wow, that didn't sound very fun. I hope you will be able to travel to freedive somewhere with a warmer temperature and better visibility soon, I imagine freediving is magic under those conditions Thank you so much for your advice, I really appreciate it and will consider it

 

[tc4ester]

Welcome to the forum. As others have stated there is loads of info on here about freediving. I'm a beginner myself and only really started to get into diving this summer. Here in Michigan its getting cold and the water temps are dropping. Hopefully I'll be able to dive a bit more before it starts snowing and the diving gets real cold.

 

[MermaidSatine]

Welcome to the forum. As others have stated there is loads of info on here about freediving. I'm a beginner myself and only really started to get into diving this summer. Here in Michigan its getting cold and the water temps are dropping. Hopefully I'll be able to dive a bit more before it starts snowing and the diving gets real cold.

Thank you! i can't even imagine diving when it is snowing - i hope you get to dive some more before the snow! Fingers crossed