This is a post by Jorg Jansen.

No, I didn’t forget! I was just so busy with collecting all the document and working through them that it took months instead of weeks. Last week I finally made my final mindmap about all the different topics about freediving that needed to be transformed into interesting lessons.

As a teaser, here is the list of lessons that will come in the coming weeks. Not necessarily in this particular order, nor am I saying that this list is complete, but it’s were I’m working from.

If you have any topics that you would like to see included, let me know!

1. General (What is, history, organizations)
2. physics
3. Safety (Buddysystem, Risks)
4. physiology
5. Breathing
6. Equipment
7. Mental
8. Environment
9. Training Techniques (Periodization, Schedules, Data analyzing, Logging)
10. Wet specific training (per discipline)
11. Dry Specific Training
12. Non-specific training
13. Advanced training (RFC, Empty, flooding, packing)
14. Equalization
15. Organization & Scuba
16. Stretching
17. Nutrition
18. Leadership/Assistance
19. Freediving as a business

After yesterdays post about safety it made me think about freediving and education. Everybody who wants to freedive needs to follow a course where you will learn the most basic skills and knowledge to continue. The problem is that for some people it is just hard to go to a course if there is not an instructor in their neighborhood. In short I just recommend by doing a course with an AIDA (Instructor List)or Apnea Academy instructor (list). That’s the best thing to do.

The next best thing to do is to read everything you can on internet and building your own knowledge about freediving by experience, trial and error. That’s how everybody started. That’s how freedivers started before there was AIDA or Apnea Academy.

There are many online places where you can find a lot of information about freediving and the most famous one is of course the deeperblue forums. The problem is that everybody is putting everything online and beginners are just overwhelmed with so much stuff, even stuff that shouldn’t be seen and done by beginners.

I’ve given a lot of freediving courses in all kind of different levels in the last years and see myself as a good and competent instructor and coach for freediving. As I don’t really have the motivation anymore to do weekends full of freediving with beginners and other people, I thought it would be a shame to let all this knowledge and information that I have in my head and on my hard disk to disappear.

So in the coming weeks I’m going to give at least one online freediving lesson online about how to become a freediver. Again, this is only theory and can’t replace a real course! Here a short overview of what’s coming in the next weeks. Probably on every Sunday.

1. General Freediving Information
2. Physics
3. Buddy System
4. Freediving Techniques
5. Risks and Safety
6. Physiology
7. Equipment
8. Breathing
9. Environment
10. Mental Training