Discover your natural freediving ability.

Duration

3 Days

About

This is an incredible opportunity to improve your freediving capabilities and immediately apply that to spearfishing when we take a boat to the Coronado Islands with a spearfishing guide. Getting this type of spearfishing guidance from someone who has been doing it for years is THE best way you can start your spearfishing journey.

Friday night and Saturday will follow the normal Molchanovs Wave 2 curriculum (see below), but on Sunday when we would normally do a depth session in La Jolla, we will take a boat out to do some depth work, and plenty of hunting.

Our goal is to give you the best freediving and spearfishing experience possible, so the location of our boat trip is to be determined by local conditions. If conditions are good, we will go to the Coronado Islands, which provides an amazing variety of hunting locations, as well as water that is generally much more clear than the local kelp beds. Keep in mind, this will require you to get a Mexican Fishing License. We promise it's worth it!

In order to get a Molchanovs W2 Freediver certificate, there are some requirements you need to pass, and usually Sunday is the day we would focus on those depths. That being said, we want you to focus on enjoying the sport more than anything else. If you purchase this class and don't pass, you will get 2 line diving or pool training sessions to use so that you can work out the kinks and get certified.

PRE-REQUISITES:

• Successful completion and certification of a Molchanovs W1 (or equivalent) course

INCLUDED:

• Boat charter
• Molchanovs Wave 2 course
• Spearfishing and diving instruction
• Biosphere permit

NOT INCLUDED:

• Mexican Fishing License
• Spearfishing and freediving gear (we do have some available to rent)

Course Outline

Friday: 1700-1900 Online Materials Classroom Review Just Get Wet HQ, 3719 Mission Blvd, San Diego CA

Saturday: 0645-0930 Pool instruction (statics, dynamics, technique) The Plunge in Mission Beach

Saturday: 1130-1430 Open water diving La Jolla Shores

Sunday: 0800-1500 Open water depth session and spearfishing Shelter Island Boat Launch

ONLINE LEARNING CURRICULUM:

• History of freediving
• Frenzel equalization
• Introduction to air control: Reverse packs or grouper calls
• Preventing potential traumas
• Effects of depth
• Written exam

POOL LEARNING CURRICULUM:

• Additional equipment
• Improvements of techniques
• Dynamic swimming (55M)
• Buddying and rescue procedures (repetition)
• Improving Dynamic No Fins (DNF) technique
• Introduction to the monofin technique

OPEN WATER CURRICULUM:

• Improvement of equalization: Frenzel technique
• Usage of lanyards
• Free fall technique
• Further safety and rescue: Rescue from 15+m
• Introduction to Constant Weight No Fins (CNF) to 15m
• Application of air control (Grouper Call and Reverse Packing)
• Improve your relaxation while focusing on your freediving technique

As a certified Level 2 freediver you will be able to meet the following requirements:

• 2:30+ min Static Breath Hold (STA)
• 55+m Dynamic With Fins (DYN)
• 35+m Dynamic No Fins (DNF)
• 24 – 30m CWT and FIM in the open water
• 15m Constant Weight No Fins (CNF)
• Free fall technique
• With this class you'll also know how to put food on the table ;)