Hi Everyone
I like your input as to what are needed in setting up a training clinic. I would like to run a clinic at our local dive club to promote freediving. i am not aware of a freediving clinic in South Africa at the moment so we may have to set up our own facility. if there is one running, then please let me know how to contact them.
the club is fully geared to run scuba courses, and the two instructors are both spearo's.
my questions are
1. who is good enough to run a freediving clinic.
i would think that any competitive freediver with a few years training and competing under their belts, or should they be real pros.
2. how much in terms of lecturing. i dont know how detailed one goes in terms of physiology, but i'm sure that it is important to know what can go wrong, eg ears etc. then i'm also thinking a bit on psycology, dive preps and personal training techniques, like pack streches for example.
then explanations on actual dive technique before you hit the water.
saftely in freeding must also be very important
3. how many pool sessions, and what to do. wet apnea, dynamic apnea etc?
4. when it comes to the seadive, we have to go offshore to get anywhere deep. how deep is deep enough for a clinic? also, conditons will probably involve a current, swells and possibly a wind chop. viz at best 25m.
our club has a boat and i'm sure that there will be an excess of available safety divers, if we need them.
the other option is in a quarry, but viz is usually between 1 and 5m.
5. legalities? i'm sure we will have to have a very comprehensive indemnity.
i guess what i could do is base the course on how others run theirs, but it would be cool to get all the opinions from everyone here.
Thanks
Mark
I like your input as to what are needed in setting up a training clinic. I would like to run a clinic at our local dive club to promote freediving. i am not aware of a freediving clinic in South Africa at the moment so we may have to set up our own facility. if there is one running, then please let me know how to contact them.
the club is fully geared to run scuba courses, and the two instructors are both spearo's.
my questions are
1. who is good enough to run a freediving clinic.
i would think that any competitive freediver with a few years training and competing under their belts, or should they be real pros.
2. how much in terms of lecturing. i dont know how detailed one goes in terms of physiology, but i'm sure that it is important to know what can go wrong, eg ears etc. then i'm also thinking a bit on psycology, dive preps and personal training techniques, like pack streches for example.
then explanations on actual dive technique before you hit the water.
saftely in freeding must also be very important
3. how many pool sessions, and what to do. wet apnea, dynamic apnea etc?
4. when it comes to the seadive, we have to go offshore to get anywhere deep. how deep is deep enough for a clinic? also, conditons will probably involve a current, swells and possibly a wind chop. viz at best 25m.
our club has a boat and i'm sure that there will be an excess of available safety divers, if we need them.
the other option is in a quarry, but viz is usually between 1 and 5m.
5. legalities? i'm sure we will have to have a very comprehensive indemnity.
i guess what i could do is base the course on how others run theirs, but it would be cool to get all the opinions from everyone here.
Thanks
Mark