Display MoreLast week I went to a spearfishing/freediving store and there was this fat guy, with cigarrette smell teaching me how to drop my weight belt and which fins should I wear.
My son Alessandro was with me and he was laughting his shit out of him when we left the store.
I was serious listening to all his advices...
These courses probably are good for beginers, but I have my doubts. They put someone without any experience to dive to 70'-80' in one weekend if they are phisically fit. That's extremely dangerous.
I remeber some time ago, I was interested in taking an "Advanced freediving level 3 or something course"- They didn't let me do so because I had to take the previous courses.
After asking them to do me some tests to see if I was "elegible" for the advanced course as I can dive consistently to 80' and meven more, they didn't want to. Screw them!
I only hope that it wont become mandatory to have a certification as you said. I know very few freedivers/spearfishermen with more experience/skills than me. Without any modesty.
But you can always learn something.
Haha, he sounds just like the manager/instructor of the dive shop I used to work at. But he only dove scuba and always referred to freediving as "snorkeling". He wasn't a good role model for the sport of diving either.