New to the sport of freediving after 20 years of scuba. I'm getting into it mainly to spearfish. I have access to a 14ft. pool at the dive shop and a lake close by. Only one pool session and a trip to the lake so far. Bottom times suck at this point of course and thats ok. In my search for training help and I discovered this site and found there to be some very helpfull information and encouragement given. I was already into the gym thing so the cardio and iron work is there. I'm a middle aged man 55 and in great shape. If it wasn't for the hair loss and a no desire to waste money I'd still be chasing college girls. Anyway, the help I've received so far is quite generic but helpfull, relax,and keep calm, slow deep breaths exhaling everything than breath and dive. I've read several different approches here to building bottom time and am not set in anything structured as yet except for what I just mentioned. All I want to do is build bottom time to a max depth of 30ft. and probably but less at this point. My relaxed static max was 1:30 but hanging onto a cleat at 14ft. is 35sec not including the slow down and up trip. I'm not unhappy with that, in fact it was quite cool, I felt the hunter. It was what was missing from scuba.
So, if there is a trainer that would like to guide a newbie I'm all ears and will do the work. Thanks from Arizona
So, if there is a trainer that would like to guide a newbie I'm all ears and will do the work. Thanks from Arizona
