Hey there ! I'm Erdi, I'm 17 and I live in London.
I was 13 when I was first allowed to use a spear gun, every year I go to North Cyprus with my family and my dad finally let me take a few shots with the spear gun. My family in Cyprus don't consider it a serious sport, we don't have any equipment like the general equipment which is discussed about on these forums, it's just something for them to do when they go out for a picnic but I really took an interest in it and it quickly became my most preferred hobby.
Anyway, the following year my dad decided to get me my own speargun, a Mares Cyrano 700. I still use it when I go on my yearly holiday to North Cyprus. It's a decent sized spear gun for the sized fish we manage to come across.
Unfortunately my dad and my uncles arn't able to dive very deep, for some reason they're not able to 'equalize' the air pressure in their ears and also i've managed to develop a greater lung capacity than them too so when we go spearfishing the depth we dive to is very limited, it's only around 9 metres and i'm not able to go beyond that as I don't want to go by myself
The fish we catch are very small compared to some of the fish i've seen when typing in 'spearfishing' on youtube lol. I would really love to dive deeper, just not by myself !
Only a week ago I came across 'freediving' on the net and thought 'wow ! now that's what I need to be doing !'
Ever since I was young I've always loved diving to the bottom of the pool and swimming from one end to the other, seeing how far I can go before I need to come up for air and I was generally quite good at it, better than the other people around me. Untill I saw freediving on the internet that is, then I realised I wasn't the only one with this interest, I realised there are tons of other people doing this amazing sport 'freediving'.
So I thought I'd join this forum hoping to find out some more information and maybe meet some more people who share the same interest as me.
I want to be able to experience different fish and different areas and get a guide to which equipment would be best to use and which areas are best to dive in. I'm sure I can get most of the information I need from this forum
I'm looking forward to meeting some new people and finding out about their experiences !
Thanks for reading, sorry if it was a bit long
Erdi !
I was 13 when I was first allowed to use a spear gun, every year I go to North Cyprus with my family and my dad finally let me take a few shots with the spear gun. My family in Cyprus don't consider it a serious sport, we don't have any equipment like the general equipment which is discussed about on these forums, it's just something for them to do when they go out for a picnic but I really took an interest in it and it quickly became my most preferred hobby.
Anyway, the following year my dad decided to get me my own speargun, a Mares Cyrano 700. I still use it when I go on my yearly holiday to North Cyprus. It's a decent sized spear gun for the sized fish we manage to come across.
Unfortunately my dad and my uncles arn't able to dive very deep, for some reason they're not able to 'equalize' the air pressure in their ears and also i've managed to develop a greater lung capacity than them too so when we go spearfishing the depth we dive to is very limited, it's only around 9 metres and i'm not able to go beyond that as I don't want to go by myself
The fish we catch are very small compared to some of the fish i've seen when typing in 'spearfishing' on youtube lol. I would really love to dive deeper, just not by myself !
Only a week ago I came across 'freediving' on the net and thought 'wow ! now that's what I need to be doing !'
Ever since I was young I've always loved diving to the bottom of the pool and swimming from one end to the other, seeing how far I can go before I need to come up for air and I was generally quite good at it, better than the other people around me. Untill I saw freediving on the internet that is, then I realised I wasn't the only one with this interest, I realised there are tons of other people doing this amazing sport 'freediving'.
So I thought I'd join this forum hoping to find out some more information and maybe meet some more people who share the same interest as me.
I want to be able to experience different fish and different areas and get a guide to which equipment would be best to use and which areas are best to dive in. I'm sure I can get most of the information I need from this forum
I'm looking forward to meeting some new people and finding out about their experiences !
Thanks for reading, sorry if it was a bit long
Erdi !
