Swim Free Underwater Workshop

PE Course Date Saturday 2 December 1 - 6pm, venue TBC
 
So what goes into the Swim Free Confidence Underwater Workshop?
 
I developed this course purely because I wanted to be comfortable surfing bigger waves and know that I could handle the hold downs. The increased capacity did lead to me becoming interested in free diving, which I now also love, but the two activities are very different when it comes to managing your breath hold.
 
In free diving your breath is rarely adrenalised or hypoxic and depth is usually a primary objective. 
 
In surfing you are both hypoxic and adrenalised and depth is is not so much an objective as is surviving the beating. 
 
Lets face it in surfing you are only holding your breath when something has gone wrong ;)
 
It doesn’t matter if your comfort zone is 2ft or 20ft this course will help you relax in the surf because it will make you more confident in what you are able to handle.  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. 
 
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%.
 
Below is a link that explains what I do with this course: 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH4mHejDZsE
 
The course has four fundamental pillars and takes approximately 5 hours to run. 
 
The cost is R750pp.
 
It covers.
 
1. Discovering your mammalian dive reflex and learning how to use it. 

2. Conscious breathing. Breath up, the breath and recovery breath. Remember a lot of this in surfing is hypoxic and adrenalised, which is very different to free diving. 
 
3. 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. 
 
4. 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!
 
Booking and payment
 
I can accommodate 15 people max on a course. Your full payment in advance confirms your participation. 
 
For your booking reference please use your name and then the letters ‘PE' i.e. 'Joe Soap PE’
 
My bank details are: 
 
John McCarthy OCEAN CHILD
Standard Bank
Cheque: 402086007
Code: 051001
IBAN/SWIFT code: SBZAZAJJ