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Do apnea walks
That work´s good for me
I am not saying your a beginner. I had to travel 20 hours by car for a course. Begginer or not, a course will organize the stuff you know and give you new tools to make great leaps. I am sure others are like me though, giving away what I paid to learn does not seem fair. Also the safety taught in a course is huge!
I know there are a lot of courses in Europe, I just don't know of them or locations in relation to where you are. I will say, your situation seems pretty common here on DeeperBlue. I am in a similar situation as well, with no buddy. And Blackout will still be an issue after a course. So a local dive buddy is key. (I don't have a local dive buddy, makes it tough to progress)
Completely agree with you. But trips to Egypt or Turkey are possible.Well, the problem here i Europe is that there are rather big differences among individual countries in terms of the strength of local economies and currencies. Hence while some European citizens have long holidays and can do bargain trips to other lands, others although doing identical work may be rather locked up in their country because of the prohibitive cost, and often also have shorter available holidays. So from this point of view, it may be really impossible for Val111 to attend a course in the Mediterranean, in the EU, or in Dahab, although for most EU citizens those are quite close and cheap destinations.
Another solution is contacting other freedivers in the neighborhood and sharing the experience with them. Some of them can be found here on DB, on the Member Map of APNEA.cz (Ukraine @ APNEA.cz), or on diverse Ukrainian freediving or spearfishing websites (several of them can be found here: Ukraine @ APNEA.cz
Then, of course, there are plenty of threads targeting the exactly same question here on DB. Newcomers do create similar new threads asking how to improve, practically every day. So all you need to do is going through the answers and learning from them. And reading through the other achieved threads about training techniques is a good idea, too. Also, reading the sticky beginners thread is definitely worth of it, even if you already have some experience.
Otherwise, the patience and persistence both in training and in gathering information, are the best recipes. A miraculous technique that will help you effortlessly doubling your performance, is not always available![]()
If you go there, choose better Dahab - there are several freediving bases and you will certainly improve noticeably under their supervision.I was already in July Sharm-El-Shaikh (diving and amateur freediving). Maybe will be again in November but most likely March - April 2009. And training I want to begin already now.
Pls say what training at walking you do?
I as well do it:
breath - three steps, delay three steps, exhalation six.
Sometimes to increase proportionally by a step or two.
When I trying I always select streets for walking or parkSearch a field -- because if you get a BO on the street :blackeye
And then i do like the O2 Tables
30sec breathholding while walking -- 1min rest and breathing next
40sec breathholding while walking -- 1min rest and breathing etc.
and last rep. max.
or like Herbert Nitsch: i read somewhere, he is jogging an hold his breath
I went from about 1:40 to 5:00 in a week practicing 3 times a day.
3 breat ups that is.
Its just learning about your body and pushing your self.