Apnea42 Freediving Club Trainings for freedivers.
Getting Started
Pool Trainings are for pool-certified freedivers or minimum ongoing pool freediving course students. ✅ Be Responsible for your own equipment & weights. If you need to rent equipment, do inform mark early so that the trainer has sufficient time to prepare, pack and bring them to the session.
✅ Training fees are kept to a minimum to cover pool and trainer cost.
✅ Instructors and trainers providing coaching is a huge voluntary role, if you benefited from pool training, and like to give back as a trainer do let Mark know.
✅ Please Read #1 #2 #3 before steeping into your first training session
1. What to Bring / Equipment Needed
Be responsible for your own equipment, especially your own weighting
- Freediving without weight means you will be floating on the surface, unable to stay underwater. please sort your weighting early.
- It is alot of weights for trainer to carry to pool if every session many are renting. Weight rental is $25 (you can purchase a pouch neckweight for $55)
- Discuss with your instructor/trainer to sort your weighting buoyancy check, you can place an order for neck weight here first to avoid rental charges: Products – tagged "Weighting" – Apnea42 Freediving (amendments to weight can be sorted later)
- Training progress is often hindered when you have to constantly adjust to different rental equipment (e.g., ill-fitting fins). Having your own equipment also facilitates proper weighting. Being properly weighted prevents bad finning habits due to poor buoyancy control and body alignment.
Compulsory Pool Equipment
1. Mask and snorkel (for buddy safety)
2. Fins
3. Neckweights or Belt Weights
4. Watch (To time, yourself, laps, progression, buddy statics)
Optional / Performance Equipment
- Wetsuit (Hydrodynamics, Staying Warm)
- Noseclip (Statics)
- Waterbottle (Stay hydrated)
Purchase Weights & Neck weights: Products – tagged "Weighting" – Apnea42 Freediving
2. Safety Rules Part1
✓ 1. Never attempt your dive alone. Find a buddy to practice together.
✓ 2. Always communicate to your lane buddies what you will be doing, or your next dive.
✓ During group training, keep to the right side of the blue line, swimming in an anti-clockwise manner to avoid collision.
✓ Stay within your limits and surface comfortably.
✓ For long dive & submax, max attempts, a buddy should swim on the surface, above the diver.
✓ Your Personal Best (PB) attempt should be relaxed and comfortable before incrementing.
✓ Increment only max 3-5m for dynamic, 1-3m for depth Not SAFE, Not COURTEOUS, Wrong Attitude example: Even if you are capable of doing a long dive easily, please adhere to the rules of safety and buddy system. As you are diving in a group. Choosing to dive on your own and causing stress to others, will be given warming. repeated uncourteous attitude will not be allowed for group training.
3. Pool Etiquette / Guidelines
- Let’s create a supportive, positive culture
- Being polite goes a long way.
- Provide constructive tips and advice to your dive buddies.
- Inform your training mates on the spot if they missed something.
- When in doubt or need advice on skills, feel free to speak to any of the instructors on site.
- Be responsible and own your gears.
- For regulars, please be responsible for your own personal equipment, especially Mask, Snorkel, Fins & Weights. There will be equipment rental fee as we do not have storage space at the pool for freediving gears.
- Exit the pool on time & bring your bag to the toilet (e.g MGS @ 945PM)
- Avoid sitting on lane ropes, whoever is sitting on the rope when it breaks you have to pay for it.
- Stay clear of starting wall, unless you are starting or arriving.
- Rest on the side of the wall if you are resting for 1 or more minutes.
- Only move to the starting wall when you are 30s ready to go.
- If you have short rest time, communicate with your buddies you are going ahead of queue, that is ok
✓ Ensure correct Buoyancy, approach your trainer
✓ Sort out your Finning Technique, approach your instructor
✓ Improve your Turns Technique
✓ Ensure your 50m dive time is not too fast or too slow (50-52s is recommended)
✓ Repeat PB multiple times over a few sessions. before progressing.
✓ If you are progressing past 75m, consider taking a level2 course. (Diet, Muscles & Energy Systems, Training Methods)
✓ Inform each other what is your dive plan and the level of safety you need.
✓ In-water active safety is compulsory for Max attempts, unless the same level of safety can be provided on deck.
✓ Find an extra safety, if the diver is twice as big as you.
Locations:
Location: 11 Blackmore Drive (King Albert MRT)
Follow the blue line, walking or by car to the swimming pool.
- Enter the front gate.
- Do not walk through the school canteen it will lead to a locked gate.
- Follow the guided blue line.
Follow the blue line, to park and walk to the pool.
Please Arrive at the pool at 730, if it is your first time.
Walking in takes 10mins.
Allow additional 15mins for changing and briefing.
Enter Pool 8pm - Exit Pool 945pm
Lap Swim Etiquette & Circle Swimming (Always keep on your Right!)
Location: 21 Evans Rd, Singapore 259368
How to Get there:
MRT -> Walk :
Exit Blue Line Stevens MRT,
MRT EXIT B to Evan Road
and 14mins walk to CCAB.
Please Prepare your ACTIVESG APP before coming to the session
Local & Foreigners can download and top up the wallet.
Use the app for $1.30 gantry pool entrance.
FAQ
- Beginner - For ongoing course students - For newly certified freedivers - Trainer will help coach technique, and sort your equipment needed to own
- Intermediate (comfortable with 50m) - Trainees who prefer to participate in group exercises and drills - Trainees should have all their equipment sorted and owned - After completing 1 package session (approximately 6 training sessions), trainees may try and attempt Intermediate-level training sessions
- Advanced (75m) - Certified Level2 Freediver & Above - No coaching on the day, you are expected to know your training plan, speak to mark days before training on your training plan if you are unsure what to do.
- Workshops - Occasional Workshops will be listed
1. There is no penalty fee for cancellation.
2. Please key in your name 5 days before to avoid last minute registration
- This will help with lane planning & management for the trainer.
- A42 will amend the lanes if there too little attendance.
3. If you can't make it due to unforeseen circumstances, you can still remove your name. There is no cancellation penalty.
4. In the event of lightning alert, dry apnea training will be conducted and deduction of training package is as per normal for those who attended.
Pool Package Expiry Terms & Conditions: here
Openwater Cancellation / Reschedule Policy - Here
Ready? Submit Your Email(Gmail) for Google Sheet App Access
- Book/Pay Training https://shop.apnea42.com/collections/training
- Submitted your email in form below.
- Request your access in Google Sheet Link (here) a. Please make payment and send screenshot to whatsapp 8381 6360 b. You will need to download Google Sheet App Add your Name - Session - Rental items e.g Name (1/6) - (fins eu38, neckweight, etc)
