I was lucky enough to meet and train with Giorgos Sakkas on my Apnea Academy instructor course in Sharm El Sheikh 2008, where he impressed me with his positive attitude in general and his solid understanding of training physiology in particular.
An efficient duckdive is one of the most undervalued skills in freediving. It makes such a difference to gracefully and stealthily disappear from the surface.
We shot these demos of The Ninja Duckdive, as demonstrated by its creator Sensei Sarah Whitcher in the rooftop pool above We Freedive HQ. Sarah is wearing a 1.5mm full-body wetsuit, no weights and is very buoyant, as you will notice in her returns to the surface.
We have all heard of diving log books and in freediving, a training log book is an extremely useful tool. It only makes sense to apply this understanding to an instructor's most important education - the education they receive as they are teaching their students.
Read more: Why Would you Want To Keep A Freediving Teaching Log?
After Identifying the fact that practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, but Practice only makes Consistent, we can now zoom in to look at this in a little more detail.
Read more: Practice Makes Consistent - 10'000 Hours Make More Consistent
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.
Read more: What do You Learn in a Beginners' Freediving Course?
The Socratic Method is a way of questioning one's knowledge and theories of the world in a way that exposes gaps, discontinuities and contradictions in a productive way.
