Whangarei/Northland freediving courses?

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Does anyone run freediving courses in Northland? Cheers.
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Hey Mighty, Not freediving courses but there has been a club started up that has a wealth of knowledge and do regular training sessions at the Whangarei pools and Kawakawa. I personally am yet to go because living and working in Hamilton when I go home to Whangarei every 2nd weekend, I'll hit the ocean 9/10 times instead of a pool LOL

https://northlandfreediving.com

I definitely recommend a course, I did one with OceanHunter in 2013 and it was a very good experience. Can I ask what you are wanting to achieve? Awareness around being safer in the water or just to understand how your body reacts to CO2 and O2?
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Thanks for the reply JAS. I have been a keen SCUBA diver since 1997, so am happy in the water and understand the physics/physiology, but I'm a crap freediver. Just want to extend bottom time safely. 
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Best way to do that then in my eyes is in a pool with experienced people watching you and with an O2 bottle on hand and first aid if things go pear shape! You can do all sorts of weird things to try increase bottom time with breathing exercises and lung stretches and what not. Me personally I'm too lazy and for me 2minutes is long enough to be under the water for at one time. I do zero training just dive my heart out every 2nd weekend for 6hrs straight and have a personal rule of not to go past 25m without having someone watching me. 
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Yeah, I can duck dive to 10-12 metres, stay there for about 10 seconds and I'm on my way up again, and get tired very quickly. Partly inadequate equipment, but mainly lack of skill LOL
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From memory in 2013 before the course I was hitting 14m max and after the course made it to 20m. Most of it was mental stuff more than anything. 
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I second the Northland Freediving Club (Hypoxic Taniwhas).  I've trained with Jack and Gemma who started it (they were both members of the Auckland Freediving Club).  Both are keen spearos and good freedivers.  Gemma was both the Womens champ for spearfishing and also freediving for a few weeks (Spearo Nationals are in January and Freediving Nationals are in March so she had both titles from late Jan to mid March this year).

They have a lot of knowledge round the physiology of freediving (different to SCUBA), equalising techniques etc. as well as spearo hunting stuff.

From a course perspective I think I heard something about a course at Paihia Dive in the BOI but I haven't heard anything about Whangarei based courses.


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