Swim Free Confidence Underwater

📍 Cape Town / Durban

Improve Your Confidence And Ability To Operate In And Underwater Safely...

In this course I teach people to approach and manage their breath hold so that they can vastly increase their capacity in and under the water. I developed this course purely because as a surfer I wanted to be comfortable surfing bigger waves and know that I could handle the hold downs. The increased capacity led to me becoming interested in adventure free diving and open water swimming, which I now also love, but these activities are very different when it comes to managing your breath hold.

In adventure free diving your breath is rarely adrenalised or hypoxic. Depth and bottom time are primary objectives to maximise exploration and interaction with marine wildlife. In surfing you are both hypoxic and adrenalised and depth is is not so much an objective as is surviving the beating. In open water swimming dealing with surf zones can be intimidating, especially if you are not confident about your breath hold.

It doesn't matter what your comfort zone is, this course will help you relax in the surf because it will make you more confident in what you are able to handle by teaching you how to understand and manage the processes that are going on in your body. You DO NOT have to be a big wave surfer or extreme athlete to benefit from this. The average increase in just 5 hrs is around 100%.

The course has five fundamental pillars and takes approximately 5 hours to run.

It covers:

• Discovering your mammalian dive reflex and learning how to use it.
• Conscious breathing. Breath up, the breath and recovery breath. Understanding the gas exchange that is going on in your body. Remember a lot of this in surfing is hypoxic and adrenalised, which is very different to free diving.
• Efficiency underwater. We speak a different language down there and the smallest things underwater can make a massive difference. Slow is Pro! When transitioning from above to below the surface we have to learn to press the ‘reset’ button. I run several drills that deal specifically with wipeout and caught inside scenarios as well as how to behave underwater when this happens.
• Safety. We always do waterwork with a buddy, be conservative, understand contractions and C02, never hyperventilate, understand the difference between blackout (your mammalian dive reflex preventing you from drowning) and drowning by breathing in water. Understand and share deepwater resuscitation , it could save your life!
• The power of the mind. There is distinction between blind determination and enlightened activation, I focus on the latter.

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