Freediving is about experiencing the underwater world while holding your breath. It’s about looking within yourself rather than looking around you. It’s more athletic than scuba diving, about learning about your body’s limit, how long you can hold your breath and how deep you can dive on apnea. It’s important to learn these techniques, using proper methods in a safe environment with a trained buddy/ safety diver. You are able to get a lot closer to nature, as it is not disturbed with your silent approach.
The benefits of freediving include:
Stress relief: For me this is one of the greatest benefits. When I dive, I am in the moment, I think of absolutely nothing, other than when to equalize. It’s like an escape from reality, or a trip to another universe. I return to the surface with my worries a distant memory.
Fitness: to Freedive you have to swim. Swim to the dive spot, swim to depth and return again. Swim to practice doing dynamics in the pool. (Swimming under the water in a pool on one breath to achieve distance.) You can do other exercises that benefit freediving in combination as a part of your training programme. Yoga, stretching, breath hold walking, swimming & weight training helped me when I was training for competitions.
Relaxing tight and sore muscles: Freediving and swimming are great low impact sports. There is no jolting movements, and movements are slow to conserve oxygen while freediving. This is a great exercise to loosen up muscles, and build up injured muscles slowly.
Setting goals: Being a freediver you set your own goals to compete against yourself to improve your own personal bests. To dive a little deeper, to swim a little further, to hold your breath a little longer, as you train with the safety of a buddy. I never worry about anyone else’s dive, I strive to do my best. We celebrate each other’s PB’s together.
Healthier lifestyle: When you know you will be waking up early, you go to bed early. You eat good food and stay hydrated. You don’t overindulge in alcohol, leading to an overall healthier lifestyle.
Making friends: It’s amazing to meet like minded people. I long for fresh air and wide open spaces. In JHB this can be a challenge. While some love shopping in the malls, that’s definitely not my idea of fun. Meeting folks who also like staying healthy, having a weekly freedive together & then chatting together over a toasted sarmie or a braai to discuss the days dives is a real bond, after a few months, your dive buddies feel like extended family. As you safety with the watchful eye of a parent watching their child, your dive buddies become very important people in your lives. Diving holidays to different destinations, lead to special memories that are shared by only those present. Over the years I have had wonderful interactions, that felt supernatural with whales, dolphins, seals and beautiful marine life.
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