Advanced Freediving Skills

Seminar

Take your freediving to the next level with advanced techniques for relaxation, breath-hold training, deep diving, and performance optimization. This seminar explores structured training methods, deep diving procedures, safety protocols, and the skills required for more demanding freediving environments.

Preparation before entering the water

Stretching: Value, preferred ways, warm-up before stretching and five stretching techniques you can use as a freediver.
Breathing: Two breathing techniques that can help relaxation.
Relaxation: Four mental techniques that can help relaxation.

Confined Water Skills

Three skills to practice in confined water that will help refine our freediving.
The role of a buddy for a freediver during static apnea.
Static apnea carbon dioxide and oxygen training tables.
The purpose of training with tables.
How do you create and use static training tables.
The role of a buddy for a freediver during dynamic apnea.
The dynamic versions of carbon dioxide and oxygen tables.

Deep Freediving – Open Water Skills

Adjusting the buoyancy before each dive
- How to apply the rule of neutral buoyancy (at two thirds of the depth) in deep diving.
- The zones of similar buoyancy at the depth of 10 to 20 meters.
The Preparation for a deep freedive
- The active body relaxation: The mental technique of the “bright and warm bar” which “scans” the body
- Mental active relaxation (concentration): Five minutes of yoga meditation methods.
The moves to descend in a deep freedive.
The moves to ascend in a deep freedive.
The role of the safety diver in deep freediving.
Designing a deep freediving plan, a series of dives and a day of deep freediving.
Other open water skills:
- The six types of freediving competition.
- The warm-up and the workup dives and how we sequence them.
- How to use a freediving computer.
- The considerations to have in mind when choosing sites for deep freediving.

Learning outcomes

Participants will learn:

Effective stretching and warm-up routines for freediving
Advanced breathing and relaxation techniques
How to use CO₂ and O₂ training tables safely and effectively
Confined water exercises that improve freediving performance
Advanced buoyancy control for deeper dives
Mental preparation and concentration techniques for deep freediving
Efficient descent and ascent procedures
The responsibilities of the safety diver
Planning and organizing deep freediving sessions
The fundamentals of competition freediving and dive sequencing
Proper use of freediving computers in training and deep diving

This seminar is designed for freedivers who have mastered the fundamentals and wish to improve their depth, efficiency, safety awareness, and overall diving performance through structured advanced training.