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What do You Learn in a Beginners' Freediving Course?

When experienced snorkellers and experienced scuba divers hear about freediving courses, they often ask us:

"Freediving is just snorkelling. What could I possibly learn in a course?"

Anyone who has been in one of our courses will have a somewhat better idea of just how much there is to learn.

There is in fact so much to learn, that we had to split the contents into beginners, advanced, expert and speciality courses, because a single course could not feasibly cover it all.

We have had many students with a solid scuba diving background and the feedback we got from them is summed up well in what one of them - a well seasoned technical diving instructor himself - wrote to us:

 "They say you never stop learning and after being in the scuba industry for years I thought there wasn't much more I could learn.

How wrong I was.

Outline of the Contents of a We Freedive Beginners Course

Knowledge and Understanding

Why do You want to freedive?
How this course will help you with that
How do we breathe?
Mechanics of Breathing
Why do we breathe?
The roles of O₂ and CO₂ in breathing
What are your options?
Conscious vs. subconscious breathing - Choice awareness
How does this make my dives better?
Awareness and use of increased CO₂ levels
What is too much breathing?
Useful definitions of Hyperventilation and why we don't want to breathe too much before freediving
What is a 'breathing technique'?
understanding common breathing techniques and making educated decisions on whether to apply them
How does Freediving Work?
The skills involved in the sport of freediving
How to move like a freediver
Aquaticity and spacial awareness on scuba vs. freediving. (2D vs. 3D space)
How to improve your Freediving
The importance of efficiency in the water and how to achieve it
Why you always want a buddy
Buddying principles and safe practises in pool and open water
What is a breathe-up?
How to reduce complexity and safely and productively prepare for a dive
How to begin a dive
A smooth transition into a successful dive
How to end a dive
Putting a safe and sound end to a successful dive
How to breathe after a dive
Making the best possible use of our lungs
Understanding freediving safety
Potential risks and how to mitigate them
How to avoid problems
Safe practices
How to spot problems
Recognising troubles
How to help
Helping effectively

Pool Skills

Putting understanding in the water
Making productive, safe decisions in the water
How to do nothing at all
Relaxation at high CO₂ levels in the water
How to make use of your gear
Effective use of fins
How to not work against yourself
Awareness and control of streamline
Going too fast?
Awareness and control of speed
Where am I going?
Efficient directional control
Which way?
Effective turns
How to be a responsible buddy
Safe, effective rescues in the pool

Open Water Skills

How to deal with pressure
Effective Equalisation and how to improve it
How to get down
Effective duck dives
How to make dives easier
Awareness and control over streamline in open water
How to know where you're going (without looking)
Directional awareness and control in open water
How to enjoy your dives
Increasing your comfort level at depth
How to get back
Safe and effective turns in open water.
How to stay calm in difficult situations
Dealing with stress at depth
How to get yourself out of trouble
Dealing with equipment failure at depth
How to keep each other safe
Effective buddying in open water
How to help each other
Effective rescues from depth

And this is just a beginners course!

Whatever your level of diving is, our courses will make sure you make the most of what you have and will give you new tools to make your dives safer and more enjoyable.

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