How many times have you told your non-freediving friends, your mom or your girlfriend that freediving is a safe sport? That safety in freediving is our main concern, that we always have an emergency plan, that we know how to act when things get difficult and blah blah blah?
Don’t only rely on your equipment expecting it to do the job for you: commit yourself to train, to improve not only your fitness level and your breath-hold but especially your technique.
What many freedivers don’t know is that you don’t “decide” your swimming style and expect each pair of freediving fins to adapt to it. In fact, each set of fins are different and you will need to learn to “feel” your fins, understand how and when they bend, how they move in the water, how wide and strong they “want” to be kicked, and so on…these are all the small things that will make the biggest difference in your performance, especially if your goal is to achieve deeper depths.
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…
If you search “freefall” on Instagram or Google images, not one single photo of freediving comes up, but instead you scroll down through hundreds of photos of skydiving jumps. Maybe the reason why freefalling is not so immediately associated with freediving is just because in the eye of the public this is not one of…
At Freedive Dahab we have been using Rollei actioncams for our freediving activities. These are small cameras with great design, high performance and resolution; however the price is much lower when compared to other actioncams with the same specs, and the accessories are extremely affordable. The most important thing for us is that the housings…
About 2 years ago I made the more than necessary decision to quit university and do something else. Anything else! What, did not matter. Just anything which had nothing to do with hanging out in huge lecture halls, listening to mostly narcissistic professors praising themselves instead of the subject in front of hundreds of bored…
By Benjamin Boehme For the 4th year since 2012 Freedive Dahab, part of Freedive International, is organizing the Russian Freediving Championships for AIDA Russia and the Molchanovs family in Dahab at the famous Blue Hole. The dates for the annual competition are set for the 13th and 15th of May. Participants will be able compete…
When I first came to Dahab in Egypt I was planning to stay for three months just to freedive. My goal was to reach 20 meters! What I did not know at that time was that I would leave as a qualified Level 2 Freediving Instructor diving deeper than 40 meters with fins. I completed…
Some time ago i got this very nice pair of Alchemy V2 soft carbon fins, mounted on Sporasub footpocket. The blades were kindly sponsored by Deep Magazine, a cool spearfishing and freediving magazine. The look of the fins is great. They look shiny in the front and mat on the back and the white railings…
From time to time when you open the newspaper you will read about Cairo, Alexandria and the North Sinai unrest. Headlines scare the reader at home at his breakfast table while was just about to plan his next holiday. Now Egypt is off the list. Too dangerous, especially with the kids. He would have loved…