Hi all, I'm a student from the Netherlands and I'll be doing an internship in Kiruna in Sweden for a few months from Februari. I would love to continue training in the pool during these months.
I was therefore wondering if anyone is maybe from that area, knows a club there, or has advice for me how to find people there.

Whenever I train static apnea in water, my jaw feels like it “dislocate” in lack of a better word. It’s not painful but uncomfortable and distracting, it feels like it clicks out of socket and protrudes. I’ve tried with a noodle under my feet to elevate myself so I’m at water level with my body, but the problem still remains.

Anyone who has had the same problem?

Hey - dropping a bottle in the ocean.

I am in Madeira, up north in Sao Vicente.

I'd like to get in touch with freedivers around here, I am willing to go Funchal. Are you or do you know freedivers around this place ?

I've heard season is off, but yeah the water is 21 degrees.

Also, do we have some kind of international map to share spots.

There is mapnea.co but its not largelly used.

Hello r/Freediving. I'm a guy who swims in the pool 1x per week, mixed breast-stroke and crawl. I'd like to be able to swim the entire length of the pool underwater(25m). And so have been researching freediving. This has led to a couple of questions.

I get that static apnea is the way to go, for improving breath hold time. But researching what to do when in the pool seems unnecessarily convoluded. "Get comfortable, efficient strokes, yada yada". What I'd really like is a sets and reps kind of scheme.

Lets say i want to tag an underwater session onto the end of my normal swimming practice(or before, whatever is best). Do i approach it like a Co2 table? And do 8x partial laps, maybe 10m with recovery in-between. Or is there a widely regarded training modality that I've missed while googling.

I'm also generally confused by the concept of recovery between static apnea sessions. Some guides don't even mention it. Others say to only practice every other day, some even less. What is it exactly that needs to recover? What about if i get more advanced, will a PR attempt at breath holding require further recovery, like with strength training?

Hello, I am traveling to Thailand next year and planning to take a freediving course. Online I see that a lot of diving centers offer basics of Freedving and a Freeding level 1 course, but I'm not sure which to get.

I have no prior freediving experience.

I'm a decent swimmer and snorkeler (I feel comfortable in the water) I dive to about 5-6 m depth on my own (no training).

Also If anyone has some recommended diving schools in Krabi, Phi Phi, or Koh Lanta that would be much appreciated.

due to acid reflux, a friend complains that his breath holding (not static) has suffered. anybody with similar problem? is this a thing?

I have a friend who smokes daily and doesn't even free dive/breath train at all. He can hold his breath for atleast 3 minutes without really trying. I have only been able to get a little over a minute and a half , and I have been training for a little while now to improve my time, and I am a little bit frustrated. How is this possible?

Hey, when I was a kid I really loved diving through pools, but I never did scuba diving, free diving or anything related. This was just a nice pastime/hobby during vacations :)

Now, at 25 years old, I figured out that I still enjoy holding breath. The mental challenge to withstand the breath reflex + stay as calm as possible is fascinating. I just started doing some basic CO2 tables and increased my PB breath holding time to 5:32 min within 2 weeks.

That’s the table I’m doing once daily (I’m at 2:40 breath hold right now for the CO2 table)

Hold breath - 1:10 breath - hold breath - 0:55 breath - hold breath - 0:40 breath - hold breath - 0:25 breath - hold breath - 0:10 breath - hold breath

I know there’s a lot on the internet, but it would be cool to get some tips on how to continue with training. Should I continue with CO2 tables first, already include 02 tables? What else could be helpful? Would love to hear your opinions and also what you think is possible when I continue to train daily (about 30 min before bedtime) for the next 6 months?

I've never freedived or trained at holding my breath. I'm a scuba diver with 100~ dives and today I did a freedive discovery course out of curiosity.

When the instructor asked me to hold my breath with the oximeter on my finger as part of the theory class to show me that oxygen doesn't go down very quickly, I held for 2:30. She looked visibly surprised, then said she "totally wasn't expecting that" and asked me if I really was a beginner and that maybe I was breathing through my nose without realising it.

Later on the pool I managed 3 minutes. She said I really should consider continuing because I have a lot of potential.

How rare/impressive is this? Or is she just trying to make me feel good so I pay for more courses?

I'm struggling to find a comfortable weight belt placement. If I have it on my hips it just falls 'up' when I go down. The most secure place is my waist and it's where I usually have it but then it slightly interferes with my lung capacity and people keep telling me it's the wrong placement. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I saw a few videos of Alexey Molchanov in one he dove to 125 meters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkHkM4Qofcc&t=23s) His whole dive was recorded.

How is this recording done? Is there another freediver going in with a camera? Or is it a drone footage? Or just simply a camera on a reel?

My friend has all his own scuba gear and is certified. The only place in my state that's open to SCUBA and freediving is a spring with a max depth of 7m/22 feet. Would it be safe to dive together? The actual deep part is not very wide, maybe 20x10ft so there's no current and nowhere to drift to. He would probably come with his own additional SCUBA friend.

In any other situation I always go with a free diver, it would just be nice to go with this friend if safe.

Stupid question incoming...

I finally pulled the trigger on a custom Elios 3mm freediving wetsuit after asking for advice here (so thank you! :D Also RIP my bank account) and should be getting it soon.

Is there anything special I need to do to break it in and actually go dive with it? This is my first wetsuit for freediving I've actually owned so I'm unsure if I should do anything in particular like practicing with it in a pool.

Thank you for any advice in advance. :)

My girlfriend has shoe size EU 32/33, yet freediving-fins seem to start at size 36 at best. Is there any brand that has smaller sizes, or like fins for kids? (Preferably in the EU, as we already tried a shop in the US and payed pretty high shipping costs for fins that in the end didn't fit at all). Thanks <3

I am travelling to ishigaki this month, and want to go explore the coast there! So i am interested to know, what are some areas that are the best to explore there?

I kinda

I’m a US citizen, born and raised in CT. I followed my dream of becoming a scuba instructor on the Great Barrier Reef and have been in Australia for 8+ years. I got into freediving 4/5 years ago and became an instructor two years ago. I left Aus because I want to connect with my family again in the US. I’m currently living / working in Nicaragua and looking to find a place in the US to base myself where I can train freely whenever I’d like (or potentially seasonly).

I have the potential of furthering my university studies in Chicago and wondering if anyone knows of diving there. Along with that—in San Diego potentially to live. And maybe looking to hear people’s experiences in different lakes and coastal southern areas in the USA (Florida?). Thanks

Hi everyone, I just received my AIDA 2 certification in Dahab, Egypt, and I’m eager to gain more experience and practice freediving. I’m looking for places to continue freediving, apart from Dahab. (I liked Dahab, but after 13 days I seen it there) Ideally, I’d love a destination where I can also enjoy other activities like hiking, exploring cultural sites, so budget friendly options are highly appreciated! for december - january

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

hey everyone, i just bought a pair of fiberglass long fins from leaderfins and decided to buy the soft ones. My friend who’s an instructor recommended me to get the soft ones, but i also got told to get the medium ones by my other friends in the freediving community. For the record i’m around 140 lbs, and 5’5”. Did i make a good decision or should i look for the medium stiffness too?

Hi all, I just started static training with a club and I'm facing a problem where I get too cold in the pool. I'm a fairly small guy and we use an outside pool so it gets windy. I tried using a 3mm wetsuit and I can stay relatively warm but only for half a session and I get unbelievably cold when there's wind. What kind of options do I have? My timing plummets after a start shivering so right now I don't see how I can progress.

When I hold my breath for even 1 minute my stomach moves so much from contractions is there a reason for that or is it just different for everybody ?

I've bee free diving only with a small fin and cheap mask/snorkel, but I am wondering about the importance and impact of specific gear.

Are weight belts a must item?

When did you realized it was important for you to invest in a better gear?

How much did you improve after adding different gear into your diving?

Hi everyone, I will be relocating to London for work and was wondering if anyone knows of groups that regularly train there. Preferably in the ocean for depth but pool is also acceptable.

I noticed that when I reach about 4 minutes / 4 minutes and 30 seconds of static apnea on land my heartbeat increases and I tend to focus a lot on it and thus lose concentration and struggle to reach 6 minutes. Is there any strategy you use to keep relaxed and ignore the heartbeat increasing?

I’m hoping to go to the Philippines in the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday here in sunny Vietnam and hope to do some freediving. During my last freedive trip my CWT absolutely sucked like hell (my duckdive was splashy and my general technique wasn’t good at all) so I’m hoping to get CWT-specific coaching from an instructor.

I was initially considering Puerto Galera or Dauin for location but am open to any suggestions for places to go or specific schools/instructors. I’m also hoping, although this isn’t totally mandatory, for me to be able to also try monofin freediving.

And this happens not only in the water. Even when I pinch my nose and breathe through my mouth for a while, it makes me wanna vomiting.

I really would like to do a lot of freediving, but this is making it difficult.

Anyone there like me? Anyone know how to fix it?