DESCRIPTION OF LEVEL 1 APNEA COURSE

Level 1 of the European Institute of Freediving is designed to help you deepen your knowledge and safety in developing your freediving skills in the sea. Within a framework of safety protocols, this course will provide you with greater confidence and security so that you can be comfortable at -20 meters deep. You will acquire training tables to hold your breath for 2 minutes, and you can improve your finning and stroke technique by doing 30 meters of distance in the pool.

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In this course, we focus above all on giving a lot of importance to breathing. For this, there will be an important lesson on the different phases of breathing before, during, and after apnea. By completing these phases, you will be able to go from filling your lungs 60% (this is normal for a person when they try to fill them to the maximum) to filling them to 100%.

This book also focuses on hydrodynamics, your stroke, and your finning technique since it is proven that good hydrodynamics allows you to advance much more with much less effort. The proof is that an inexperienced person will take an average of 10 strokes and kicks to swim a length of 25 meters in the pool, while a freediver with trained hydrodynamics will easily do it with 5 strokes.

In addition to these two important topics, the lessons included in this book are:

1. Welcome to Freedom
2. History of Apnea
   2.1. An aerobic or anaerobic sport
   2.2. Origin and history of apnea
3. Records
4. Modalities
   4.1. Static apnea (STA)
   4.2. Dynamic apnea (DYN)
   4.3. Dynamic apnea without fins (DNF)
   4.4. Constant weight (CW)
   4.5. Constant weight without fins (CNF)
   4.6. Free immersion (FIM)
   4.7. No limits (NLT)
   4.8. Variable weight (VW)
   4.9. Jump blue
   4.10. Other sports
5. The European Institute of Apnea
   5.1. Apnea levels
6. Apnea Gear
7. Hydrodynamics
   7.1. Kidney stroke
   7.2. Biofin finning
   7.3. Technique without fins (in the sea and pool)
   7.4. Finning Monofin
   7.5. Static apnea
8. Physiology 1
   8.1. Pulmonary system 1
   8.2. The 5 types of breathing
   8.3. The ear
9. Physics 1
   9.1. Introduction
   9.2. Density
   9.3. Pressure
   9.4. Boyle's law and the ears
   9.5. Frenzel and Valsava
   9.6. Boyle's law and the mask
   9.7. Water and heat
   9.8. Water and light
   9.9. Water and sound
10. Safety, Risks and Rescue
    10.1. Syncope or blackout
    10.2. Loss of motor control (PCM or samba)
    10.3. Bad practices that accelerate the appearance of syncope or PCM
    10.4. Rescuing a victim
    10.5. Safety
    10.6. Decompression illness (DE)
    10.7. Barotrauma
    10.8. Alternobaric vertigo
11. Preparing a Day
    11.1. Planning
    11.2. Emergency plan
    11.3. Arrival at the point
    11.4. During the dives
    11.5. End of the day
12. Training Table
    12.1. Hypercapnia table
13. Currents and Tides
    13.1. Tides
    13.2. Currents
    13.3. Getting out of a current
    13.4. Waves and wind

PARTS OF THE COURSE IN THE CLASSROOM

The course takes place over 3 days with 26 hours of theoretical-practical training divided into three parts:

1. Theory-practice
2. Practice in a pool or confined waters
3. Practice in the sea