Hello all,
I am a long time scuba diver, and a scuba diving instructor. Recently I have been introduced to freediving. About a month ago, while at a pool for some scuba diving classes, I bumped into a competative freediver. He had formerly competed at worlds among other competitions. We got to talking and I mentioned that I was always interested in it, but hadn't really tried it despite being a scuba instructor.
Turns out, he too was looking for a training partner as he was trying to get back into shape for a competition. At any rate we hooked up and started training together. I learned how to be an effective safety, while he taught and mentored me into the freediving world. So far I am loving it, but am really unsure exactly as to why. In the few weeks we've been training I have gone from barely doing a :45 second static to pulling off a 5:00 hold. The 5 minute hold was a dry land hold at the end of an O2 table where on the final (8th) hold of the table, when I was suppose to realease at 4:00 decided to push longer and made it to 5.
So far I am having a little trouble hitting those same times when we train in the water. So far my best in water static is 4:15. I am also going through the process of learning to dive a mono-fin. I feel like a new diver all over again. Right now my dynamics suck, mainly due to poor finning technique, but hopefully that will come. I havn't yet been able to make it out to open water, for a true depth freedive yet, but hope to make that jump soon. So I guess I can't call myself a freediver just yet, but thought I would introduce myself.
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I am a long time scuba diver, and a scuba diving instructor. Recently I have been introduced to freediving. About a month ago, while at a pool for some scuba diving classes, I bumped into a competative freediver. He had formerly competed at worlds among other competitions. We got to talking and I mentioned that I was always interested in it, but hadn't really tried it despite being a scuba instructor.
Turns out, he too was looking for a training partner as he was trying to get back into shape for a competition. At any rate we hooked up and started training together. I learned how to be an effective safety, while he taught and mentored me into the freediving world. So far I am loving it, but am really unsure exactly as to why. In the few weeks we've been training I have gone from barely doing a :45 second static to pulling off a 5:00 hold. The 5 minute hold was a dry land hold at the end of an O2 table where on the final (8th) hold of the table, when I was suppose to realease at 4:00 decided to push longer and made it to 5.
So far I am having a little trouble hitting those same times when we train in the water. So far my best in water static is 4:15. I am also going through the process of learning to dive a mono-fin. I feel like a new diver all over again. Right now my dynamics suck, mainly due to poor finning technique, but hopefully that will come. I havn't yet been able to make it out to open water, for a true depth freedive yet, but hope to make that jump soon. So I guess I can't call myself a freediver just yet, but thought I would introduce myself.
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