My pleasure! How did you go!? :)

Glad I could help! Have fun on the course 🙂 Just stay relaxed an focus on technique like equalising As you go down and you'll smash it 🤙

Glad you enjoyed it!

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 🙂

Awesome! Good luck 🤙

William Cutting Absolutely! 40% of divers are named Dan, 10% have other names like you and I, and the other 50% are female 😂

Scuba Steve

And the others are named PADI

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 😶

You’re very welcome! Hope you’re able to get into it soon 🙂 Happy diving 🤙🏼

Outdoor & Fishing Living Mission cheers! If you want to dive or spear at all it’s a must! So much fun and you learn so much and improve your diving 🤙🏼

My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🤙🏼

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

@@felix.salmon thanks man! I will definitely try to sign up for a class soon! Appreciate the info!!

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

Start with snorkelling! You can progress slowly from snorkelling to keep it comfortable 🙂

@@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.

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 KZfaq but I'm sure you've found them already 🤙

Tahir Mahammed Caringbah is where Freediving Central do their Sydney courses 🙂

Cheers! Wow what a spot!! I'd love to dive there 🤙

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

Acho Akina Chowji thank you! 🙂

@@felix.salmon your welcome ☺😊☺

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! 🙂

@@felix.salmon Ahhhh I see. Thanks!

We got sent the Molchanovs modules before the course that teach you how to frenzel and then we practiced it more during the course🙂

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?

Gotta stay ready for anything 😂

She actually needed more weight to stop floating to the surface 🙂 I should’ve been more clear about what the buoyancy issue was haha

West Coast Freediving Thanks! 🙂

On this course I got to 16m 🙂 The aim is to get divers to 10m on the Wave 1

EarlGrey Start saving for one if you’re into your diving, it’s really important to do a course to make sure you’re diving safely 🙂

The course was $490 :) let me know if you have any other questions about it!

@@felix.salmon Thanks Felix !!

@@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!!

Sure am 😂

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

You'll get there 🙂

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 KZfaq 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.