AIDA International have posted on Facebook about the long awaited revision of the AIDA Education standards.
We are pleased to see that our alumni Oli Christen and Yoshua Surjo have played a significant role in the recreation of the AIDA standards and if you have taken a course with us or with them, then you will recognise where their influence has come in.
Download the full document belowAIDA International Education Standards, v.2.1. (2017)
Kevin Mitchell is an experienced educator and has been teaching English in Korea for many years. This has allowed him insights into teaching second language students which add to his experience as a freediver and freediving instructor.
Find here his Instructor Thesis on Body Language in Freediving Education. A prime read, especially for those who teach in multi-language environments.
Read more: Kevin Mitchell - Body Language in Freediving Education
Handling 30 metres of freediving line requires some care to make sure one does not end up spending 20 minutes untangling before each dive session. The double daisy chain (AKA double braid) solves this problem even for 200 metres of line extremely reliably and without hitches (pun intended :) )
Read more: Freediving Line and Rope Handling - The Double Daisy Chain (Video by Kevin Mitchell)
For his Instructor Course Presentation here at We Freedive, Patrick Swartenbroekx used freediving as the crystallisation core when he imagined a fully sustainable community.
In his inspiring talk, he connects the dots between resource management, personal health and socio-economic structure. Find the video of his talk and his presentation paper here.
Read more: Patrick Swartenbroekx - Freediving as Part of a Sustainable Lifestyle
A discussion on social media about reverse packing showed that the concepts of Active and Passive Residual Volume (which many of you will have been introduced to in our Advanced, Master and Instructor courses) are very useful, especially when considering advanced training techniques that deal with training for deep freediving, flexibility and risk of barotrauma.
Ear Inflammation and infection are among the most annoying reasons not to go freediving and an Instructor Course should be useful and help other freedivers with their diving. Enter Nóra Galgóczy, who in her training towards being an outstanding AIDA and PADI Freediving Instructor became an expert in all things that are ears.
In a revision of her presentation paper, Nóra Galgóczy gives us the low-down on how to keep our ears healthy and what to do if they are not.
Read more: Nóra Galgóczy - Outer Ear Inflammation and Infecton in Freediving
