This video is a look at what goes on in a freediving course. Filmed while I completed my Wave 1 (Level 1) Certification with Freediving Central Subscribe for more videos: / @felix.salmon #freediving #molchanovs #wave1
Thanks for this video mate, I was hoping to do this course with Freediving central, and then I couldn’t get out of Tasmanian after the corona virus hit.. good to hear you hold them in such high regard, fills me with a lot of confidence for when things go back to normal
Aqua Kahuna glad you enjoyed it! Yea they run great courses I wouldn’t go with anyone else if I could help it. From speaking to other divers it sounds like a lot of other dive schools are less thorough in both the practical and theory that the teach. Hope you get to do the course soon 🙂
I just heard about freediving. Thought it was awesome. Figured I'd find a lesson on youtube and start practicing. Clicked this as the first video to watch. Saw this comment... My name is Dan 😶
Thank you for sharing, you did a molchanovs wave 1 course? I want to go next year for @AdamSterns Deep week, also what was the requirements to do your lvl1?
Estelle Yes it was a Wave 1 🙂 The requirements were just to conduct a rescue dive. The way Adam and Dan run their beginner course there is no depth or breath hold that must be achieved to earn the certificate. There is online material and a test you must do before the course and you just need to show that you know the information and are diving safely.
@@felix.salmon this online material you talking about where do a person find that or is it lock to the training dive center - it would be interesting to read it. I am busy with monofin training, and it is going slow.
Estelle The online material was provided as part of the course with an online test at the end. A lot of it was freediving basics that I’ve seen covered in Adam Sterns videos
hey man, great video. How good of a swimming do you have to be before doing the course? Also, can comment on the equipment you guys used? What brand did you guys use? Been looking to get into freediving, thanks!
Hey thanks so much! One of the students when I did this course wasn't even comfortable putting her face underwater at the start of the course. By the end she held her breath for over a minute and a half in the pool, swum 30m on one breath and dove to 8m! The earlier you do a course the faster you'll improve so I'd say just do one as soon as you want to start diving 🙂 Don't worry too much about what brand you get. If you're in Australia then Adreno is a great store to get your set up and if you're buying a few things and ask for a discount they'll always give you one. Best to head into a dive shop, ask staff what they recommend and get low to mid level gear
Hi, I just stumbled onto freediving videos today and I’m totally fascinated. But I don’t understand how freedivers equalize. I can’t even equalize myself on an airplane. I’ve tried blowing my nose or swallowing, but that doesn’t seem to work for me. Is there a special technique? Or is my body broken? How do freedivers swim straight down without imploding their eardrums?
It's awesome right! Glad you've enjoyed watching diving videos 🙂 Basically you pinch your nose and then blow air into your nose. Because your nose is blocked the air is forced into your sinuses and then inner ear, equalising the pressure in all air pockets in your head! Heaps of great tutorials on RU-vid but I'm sure you've found them already 🤙
Nice! Theres no course you "should" do over the other. Do you prefer scuba and do more scuba than freediving? Sounds like you'll be in the water anyway which is awesome 🤙
@@felix.salmon I’m an avid scuba diver but I wanna try free diving I feel like I’ll get more confidence to be in the water without all my scuba equipment if I finish search and rescue lol it’s just me… I’m more secure with my scuba gear on but I want to experience freediving since it looks so free and it would be nice to not have all the equipment and be underwater
@@felix.salmon I don't think you understand my absolute TERROR of attempting to breathe underwater with a regulator....this free flowing regulator training as well....just absolutely terrifying,...even more so!!!! How is it possible to breathe bubbling air?? With water intermixed with it?? Sounds like drowning to me!!
It's My ULTIMATE TERROR....Suffocating in water...not being able to breathe....how on earth you have the courage to do this is absolutely totally beyond me. I've tried static breath holding with Adam Stern videos...I've done a 3 minute 50 seconds ONCE! and once only..I felt absolutely dreadful afterwards....I'll NEVER NEVER do it again..I never get contractions EVER !! either it's just the OVERWHELMING URGE TO BREATHE THAT FORCES ME TO START BREATHING AGAIN.
Doing dynamic dives in the pool trains everything except our equalisation and our bodies adaptation to depth (increased abdominal flexibility and increased blood shift). So if you’ve never dove past 10m even if you can hold your breath for 100m in the pool, you’ll still get crushed trying to dive deeper than 15m for the first time. I also needed to work on my equalisation. Lots of aspects go into having good deep dives including physical adaptation, mental techniques and technical skill. Hope that explains it! 🙂
What criteria do you need to 'pass' in order to get certificate? I have heard a lot of people that do course do not pass stage A. i.e. 10mts line dive, static breath hold etc... what are the criteria to get passed?
I believe the criteria are the same if you do it through molchanovs or Freediving Central (Both teaching “Wave” Certification). There is no specific performance goals that must be achieved for the level 1 course. You must pass the online test and complete a rescue dive (someone on my course did a rescue from about 3m and that was fine). I think the only way you would fail Wave 1 is if you were being deliberately unsafe and couldn’t put your head underwater. Other training providers may have more strict achievements for certification. Hope this helps!
@@felix.salmon I had to do all that for "pool freediver", lvl 1 would be next and the requirements were told higher including rescue from 10m and taking of mask at 10m and surface etc. My course was with an SSI school, maybe thats different?
@@felix.salmon Hai am From Dubai. Am professional comercial Diver in UAE. I just want to learn free diving😊.. This is how many day's calss and where is the location is this!!
Some boats won't take you diving at certain places without one but mostly it's so you dive safely, perform rescues and learn the best techniques so you can improve.
@@felix.salmon I didnt know the thing about the boats, i know free diving is a useful slill but a certification that you can do it didnt seem very useful
Here's what happens. You fork out hundreds to get a worthless card. To do this, the course instructor rips off a book that people had used for over a decade. Find a club and learn to dive with them. Don't get in hurry. There is safety in numbers. #1 cause of accident and death in diving is instructor related.
The card definitely isn't worth anything hahaha it's all about the skills. I became a very safe and decently competent diver by watching Adam Stern's RU-vid videos but I prefer diving with people who've completed a course because I know they're going to be safer in general than someone who hasn't. Diving with a club is the best way to make sure you're diving with competent divers. In my experience the best and safest divers have completed some level of course certification so they understand technique and how to dive safely. What do you mean by accidents are instructor related? Most freediving deaths are unfortunately when people dive alone, unknowingly hyperventilate.
