ONline free dive training

[Freedive WI]

It's really not that bad!

As with anything, you can push yourself as far as you want. The most important thing is to have fun.

Many of the best breath-holds and freedives are only accomplished after an hour in the water 'warming-up". Your body needs time to adapt to its surroundings and it takes time for the mammalian dive reflex to kick in.

The most important thing to remember is never freedive alone!
If you remember that the rest is safe and quite fun.

The first thing to try is a full breath. Most scuba divers have no idea what that really is. A full breath has at least three parts:
1 inhale stomach
2 inhale chest
3 inhale throat- now swallow

You fill each of these parts up in order and you will be astonished at how much air you can get in.

Next, try and hold you breath while sitting at your computer. When you feel that msucle spasm telling you to breath it's called a "contraction". People can withstand many of them- sometimes for minutes on end. When YOU feel that "contraction" STOP holding your breath and BREATH- you want this to be fun.

Then, you should just breath normal for at least two minutes. NEVER HYPERVENTILATE.

Now, try holding your breath again and wait until that first contraction. You'll find that you need to do this a few times before you get a nice long breath hold.

If you do this 4 or 5 times in a row you will be amazed at what you can do. Just remember to always practice with a buddy watching.

There are many other things that you can do to increase your freedivng abilities and they are bantered about on the freediving forums all of the time. You really don't need to delve into that far to have fun. ;D

Give it a shot.

Jon