APNEA ACADEMY FREEDIVING COURSES
APNEA ACADEMY FREEDIVING COURSES
Apnea Academy freediving courses are designed to capture the essence of freediving, allowing you to appreciate the quality of life in a timeless environment. Not only will you be given the necessary tools to become a better freediver, but each course provides a vacation experience, where you can leave your worries behind and discover a place in the water where nothing else matters more than self enjoyment.
Courses provide step-by-step support to anyone interested in discovering the underwater in freediving or anyone looking to improve their freediving technique, mental focus and breathing and relaxation techniques. Starting from the first approach, freediving with the Apnea Discovery course (this course differs from a standard snorkeling course, covering the techniques of relaxation and breathing), up to Apnea Academy Assistant Instructor, where one can learn to manage a class of freediving students and get certified to teach their own Apnea Discovery classes, I’ll help you at every stage to identify your limits to dive safely underwater while still maintaining the unsurpassed feeling provided by free-diving.
To make the development of the diving techniques more enjoyable and effective for YOU, Apnea Academy freediving courses utilize a multimedia teaching approach, which feature presentations rich with videos, photos, demonstrations and various exercises. Technical sessions are done in the swimming pool and in open waters, and are video recorded to facilitate technical improvements. The official Manual of Freediving, slides, didactic videos, final test and scoring have all been prepared to provide a specific sequence of subjects and helping to acquire the knowledge offered by the learning material.
Each course consists of theoretical lessons, swimming pool training, relaxation and breathing techniques and open water sessions. Upon completion of the course, if all course requirements are met an Apnea Academy certification will be issued.
COURSE LIST
Course
Description
Certification
Apnea Discovery is addressed to whoever wants to test the underwater free-diving with minimum equipment, still learning relaxation and breathing techniques and to “look inside himself” searching for the wellness provided by free-diving and to discover, in harmony with the environment the marvelous underwater world, made of lights and colors nowhere else found. Duration: 1.5-2 days. Price: please contact us for pricing. More info…
No certification card is released
INDOOR FREEDIVER
‘Indoor Freediver’ is the first course that AA is fully developed in the pool. The goal is to let the student discover the good feelings that only apnea can give with a correct management of breathing and relaxation but also development of sensitivity in water, by listening to your body to discover the pleasure to dissolve in the liquid that surrounds and become one with the water.
OUTDOOR FREEDIVER
This is the other facet of the ‘Indoor Freediver’ course as it is developed in open waters or deep pools to discover the emotion of the depth. The goal is to let the student discover the good feelings that only apnea can give with a correct management of breathing and relaxation but also development of sensitivity in water, by listening to the body, to discover the pleasure to dissolve in the liquid that surrounds and become one with the water by experiencing the depth.
Apnea Academy First Level represents the first approach to free-diving with a complete basic equipment. The objective of the course is to reach controlled free-diving by applying relaxation and breathing techniques in order to reach the following performances: 1’45” static apnea, 30 meters in dynamic and 8 meters in depth. Duration: 5-6 days. Price: please contact us for pricing. More info…
Apnea Academy Second Level is to improve the relaxation and breathing techniques by taking advantage of the experience acquired in the first level in order to reach following performances: 2’30” in static,55 meters dynamic and 15 meters depth. Duration: 6 days. Price: please contact us for pricing. More info…
Apnea Academy Third Level is the highest award for a free-diver. By a improvement of its ability to operate in the water, mental and technical training, the freediver will be able to reach 3′ static, 70 meters dynamic and 25 meters depth. Duration: 6 days. Price: please contact us for pricing. More info…
INSTRUCTOR ASSISTANT
This is the level before becoming instructor. Learn to manage a class of students by assisting a certified instructor during his classes. Once certified the assistant is allowed to teach by his own apnea discovery classes.
SPECIALTY COURSES
Course
Description
Certification
Learn techniques and materials to start using a monofin in a pool. Addressed to students with at least a first level. Based on Swim-like-a-dolphin didactic. Duration: 3 days. Price: please contact us for pricing. More info…
Advanced techniques to train with a monofin in pools and depth. Addressed to students with at least a second level. Based on Swim-like-a-dolphin didactic. Duration: 4 days. Price: please contact us for pricing. More info…
ADVANCED EQUALIZATION
Learn how to manage deep equalization techniques (mouth fill) and techniques to train them. Addressed to students with at least a second level.
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