Dominik Schwarz is probably our biggest instructor so far; Look for 2 metres of AIDA Instructor, city hopping around Germany.
Dominik's final presentation for his AIDA Instructor course with us was on the topic of using classical conditioning as illustrated by the famous experiment with Pavlov's dog in freediving. These insights allow us to design our training to be far more efficient and begin to gain conscious control even over our dive response.
Yoshua Surjo is a Event Management and Communications professional from Jakarta. During his Instructor Course with us, his final presentation gave us a guide on how we can communicate our passion to the public in a structured way.
Yoshua's article is kept abstract enough to be applied anywhere in the world and will help the people around us to understand us a little better.
Read more: Yoshua Surjo - Communicating Freediving to The General Public
During his Instructor Course with us, psychologist and hypnotherapist Jan Bareš gave a presentation on the wonderfully intriguing topic of Time Distortion in Static Apnea. A great read that gives some background as well directly applicable tips to improve our Static Apnea Training.
Rachel 'Cat' Wang is an inspirational freediver, based in Beijing, China who came to train with us in order to become a Freediving instructor.
As part of her AIDA Instructor Course, she gave a presentation on the impact of the Chinese Culture of sports and education on learning - and teaching - how to freedive.
Read more: Rachel Cat Wang - The Chinese Culture and its Role in Learning how to Freedive
The AIDA International rules and regulations for competitions rule that an athlete is disqualified if they are touched after surfacing and before the judges have shown their card.
In a competition, we want to see that the athlete performs the dive on their own, we want to see that they are physically capable of ending a dive safely without intervention. Theoretically,
Richard Marsh took part in a recent instructor course with We Freedive in Phuket, where the topic for his final presentation was his experience of spending some time and freediving with the Koh Surin Moken, a tribe of freediving nomads who have spent their lives on and in the water for generations.
Read more: Richard Marsh - The History and Future of Freediving for the Koh Surin Moken
