The penalty for a mistake in freediving is too severe to ignore
Freedive Spearfishing Safety – Spearing Magazine I got a phone call recently from a past...
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Category: Ted Harty Safety
How to increase your bottom time on your next spearfishing trip.
More bottom time while freedive spearfishing. We all want more bottom time while freedive...
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Scuba vs Freediving And How You Can Grow The Sport
Scuba divers and freedivers tend to not get along, especially scuba spearfishermen vs freediving...
Read MoreHow to get more oxygen in your brain
I will share two techniques that you can use on your next trip that will put more oxygen in your brain when you surface from a freedive. When you watch the average freediver surface you will see a ton of bubbles coming out of...
Read MoreI Know My Limits
The fallacy behind I don’t push myself and I’m in tune with my body. Most divers know you are supposed to dive with a buddy and dive one up, one down. Yet many of those same people don’t do either of those things. In my opinion,...
Read MoreWhy your head position is important while freediving.
Almost every student I have starts the class with the habit of looking where they are going while diving. It seems perfectly logical, not looking where you are going seems completely illogical. Let me point some things out you...
Read MoreWhy and How to Hunt in Teams
If you are reading this, you probably know you should be diving in teams, with your buddy close enough to grab you when you surface. You probably know that most fatalities in our sport occur by not following this basic rule....
Read MorePrepare body & mind for a dive
Every time you make a dive there is a period of time in-between your actual dives that has a large impact on what happens during your dive. There are two main components of that time that I want to address. How you are breathing...
Read MoreClean up your entry
During my courses, students are bombarded with a lot of information and new techniques. The one technique I spend the most time on without question is efficient entry technique. I typically spend more than an hour spread over 2...
Read MoreToo much lead got you down?
Generally speaking many spearfishermen wear too much weight. This causes two problems. First, if they were to black out they would end up on the bottom of the ocean and second, it can reduce their dive time. When I started...
Read MorePrep the body for upcoming spearfishing season
Some people are lucky enough to live where they can spearfish year round but this certainly doesn’t apply to most people. Lots of folks have to travel to go spearfishing because their local season is very short like my students...
Read MoreHow you breathe, hold your breath and kick
How you breathe, hold your breath and kick are pretty essential to the sport of freedive spearfishing. During my courses I deal with a wide variety of experience levels. Some students can only freedive to 20ft. and some are...
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