Why do freedivers stretch? Stretching is one of the most important aspects of freediving, while reducing the chance of lung squeeze at depth it also makes freediving more comfortable especially when it comes to the flexibility of the diaphragm while dealing with contractions and depth. Good overall flexibility is ideal in all sports but for…
By Benajmin Boehme This is article is directed to beginners or non-freedivers as an overview of the different freediving disciplines. We will go through each one of them and explain their benefits and difficulties. In freediving there are six competition disciplines and two non-competition disciplines which sums up to a total of eight. This at…
Alexey Molchanov is very often spending time in Dahab and we have known him since he was 17! He was already freediving deep then but wasn’t allowed to compete yet. This January Alexey came for some training and brought some monofins to our shop; our instructor and blogger Pavol met him for an interview. We…
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…
For almost 3 weeks I am instructing freediving courses for Extreme Blue Water Freediving in Nungwi, a small, cozy village at the Northern Cape of Zanzibar, The kilometer-long beach, which almost surrounds the whole north of the islands enabling endless walks or runs or visits in the neighbor village of Kendwa, is full of life…