Being streamlined means to have a body position which creates little drag. To do this, you need to hold your arms straight along your body, keep your legs together and your knees straight; if you dive with fins or a monofin you need to point your feet in order to keep the blade/s vertical.
The secret of a pro-duck-dive? Practice, and practice, and practice! Here you will find some tips for who are still struggling with their duck-dive and want to improve. Note!! You should never go freedive alone if you are working on depth or to extend your dive time, but it is possible to train duck-diving anytime…
Learn to freedive – Where to start? Many times we get requests for tips from people who want to start freediving but don’t want to do a freediving course, either because there is no instructor available in their area, or because they simply want to save money or spend it on equipment instead. All over…
Freediving Lanyard Many novice (and not so novice) freedivers assume that the freediving lanyard must always be worn on the wrist, but many times this is not the case: in fact even though from a safety point of view the wrist is the best place to wear it, it is practically impossible to do CNF…
Surfacing is a Freediving Technique that very often gets overlooked Yes, surfacing from a dive can be very messy sometimes! There can be a number of obstacles on the surface such as ropes, people, noodles and other floating devices, fins and other equipment hanging on the buoy, which can make your recovery hard if you…
By Linda Paganelli Your freediving buddy can affect your performance much more than you think Throughout my freediving career i realized, on several occasions, how much my training was influenced (for the better and for the worse) by who i was diving with. This has very little to do with the amount of trust i…
How Pros Use their Freediving Computer As a new freediver, you would think that using a freediving computer is very straightforward business: you wear it, put it in freedive more and off you go, it will tell you the depth and the time, and that’s all you need. Yes, but also no!
Freediving Training Tips – No Fins Freediving No Fins Freediving or Constant No Fins (CNF) is considered the hardest discipline in freediving , and it is, especially when your technique is not great. You dont need to practice in the sea to work on your No Fins technique. Actually you should NOT practice in the…
Freediving Training Tips – Freefalling Many times we get caught on our goals and we just chase depth, and neglect very important aspects of our dives. One which often gets ignored is the freefall. On a deep freedive the freefall is the longest part of the descent and because you are not swimming (or pulling)…
Breathing and breathing-up are very important aspects for Freediving, but for a different reason than most people think. I remember when I was learning how to freedive I was very confused about how to breathe properly. The only thing that was clear was that the more air you inhale the longer you can stay underwater,…