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I have come across a lot of people who swear by free diving as a way to improve their scuba diving. I haven't been able to figure out why it helps so much quite yet? What do you all think?
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johndiver999
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Scuba diving is better practice for scuba diving but freediving helps you to be comfortable in the water and swim better. Also all freedivers are very good at equalizing quickly or they can’t freedive.
Comfort in the water, relaxation, reduction of extraneous movement (e.g., no hand sculling), understanding how much time you actually have without a breath, being smooth, understanding of proper weighting, buddy dynamics (actually being in a position with awareness to be useful).
Additionally, you won't dart willy nilly from place to place, so you learn to see/appreciate the details of what's in front of you. There's less of this if spearfishing, as you're typically looking "out", but still a useful mindset that translates to scuba. Finding the cool animals is a skill.
Additionally, you won't dart willy nilly from place to place, so you learn to see/appreciate the details of what's in front of you. There's less of this if spearfishing, as you're typically looking "out", but still a useful mindset that translates to scuba. Finding the cool animals is a skill.
Eric Sedletzky
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I freedived for several years before I got S.C.U.B.A certified. Freediving first made all the difference in the world and I highly recommend it.
It teaches you comfort in the water, you get acclimated to the water temp and learn how to equalize, you get used to the mask and wetsuit, you learn proper weighting because there is no BC to compensate for overweighting, you learn proper fin kicking and body alignment to glide through the water efficiently like an arrow.
All these skills can be transferred to Scuba diving and you will be miles ahead of someone going straight to scuba only learning the cumbersome practices of modern gear and training (elevator diving).
I breezed through my open water training dives in cold water thanks to my freediving background.
It teaches you comfort in the water, you get acclimated to the water temp and learn how to equalize, you get used to the mask and wetsuit, you learn proper weighting because there is no BC to compensate for overweighting, you learn proper fin kicking and body alignment to glide through the water efficiently like an arrow.
All these skills can be transferred to Scuba diving and you will be miles ahead of someone going straight to scuba only learning the cumbersome practices of modern gear and training (elevator diving).
I breezed through my open water training dives in cold water thanks to my freediving background.
hey, if i could dive for free i'd be a much better diver. so sure, I would agree.
Still Kicking
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Wait, youre giving away free diving?
johndiver999
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Yes being an accomplished Freediver is potentially extremely beneficial prior to scuba diving training. However once you are trained as scuba diver, I’m not so sure that freedive training is better than scuba practice.
There are outliers too that can freedive well, but just aren’t comfortable being 90 ft down on a tank.
It is a different culture, if I want to impress scuba divers, I tell them I can Freediver to 60 ft and if I want to try to impress freedivers, I tell them I can scuba dive to 180 ft (on air).
Of course anyone who is accomplished at either sport is throughly unimpressed!
There are outliers too that can freedive well, but just aren’t comfortable being 90 ft down on a tank.
It is a different culture, if I want to impress scuba divers, I tell them I can Freediver to 60 ft and if I want to try to impress freedivers, I tell them I can scuba dive to 180 ft (on air).
Of course anyone who is accomplished at either sport is throughly unimpressed!
a friend of mine is the national freediving champion of Algeria.
The joke is that he's the only competitive Algerian freediver.
The joke is that he's the only competitive Algerian freediver.
Freedivers, especially spearfisherman and others who spend a lot of time in the water pick up scuba diving really quickly. Probably because of the comfort level and general breath control. Right now I'm out of shape both in cardio and in water skills and my SAC is still way lower than most divers I guide.
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