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Well, as I wrote, most of them were at the competition during the weekend, so they certainly did not read their email. However, I asked Martin Zajac from Apneaman.cz, and David Cani - they do not make any AIDA courses. Martin does Apnea Academy courses (Pelizzari's school), and David Cani follows F.I.I. educational rules (Stepanek's school). So if you are looking for an AIDA certificate, they won't help you. But if you rather want to get better in freediving, and do not care about the AIDA certificate, they are both certainly good enough.

BTW, Martin Zajac left for Croatia yesterday (just after the competition), so you may need to wait little bit more. As I already wrote - email is not really the best way of communication with these people who are busy, do not spend their time at the PC, and tend to travel a lot. You best pick up the phone and call them. It is much faster, and you get the answers easier.
 
some instructors will let you cross classes from different organizations as well. so you may be able to take level one with one and level 2 from another. and you get different teaching philosophies.. :)
 
thanks for the tips...however i'm preety shure i want to take courses directly for level 2...
as far as i noticced, the level one is for the aquintance with the water and getting comfortable under water
i don-t want to pose in some good freedivier or so, but my time and [why not?] my budget are kinda limited...is no use for me to spend money and time for the beginner level...:(
 
hi there vali.. for the different orgs, they have different requirements. apnea academy has apnea discovery and 3 levels whereas Aida has 4 levels. for example, if you compare the aa level 2 and the aida 3*, they are similar except for the depth.

anyways, my point was if you wanted to take an aa course now, you could followup with aida later, or vice versa. so long as the course you passed was equivalent..

have fun with your course, which ever org choose! :)
 
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