I'm not allowed to due to a lung collapse a few years back, but sure looks like a lot of fun.
A lot of big kingies get speared on northern beaches Sydney here.. seems like the only way to land em!
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Have you been told that? My lung has previously collapsed too and im fine with it (and scuba diving).
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Yeah by a specialist, same with skydiving. How did yours go pop? Mine was from a pnuemothorax
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This is something I've really been wanting to get into. Been a couple times with a mate mucking around just out of a few heads up the coast, this was also with a hand spear though, not a gun. I like it better, well for now anyway.
I need to buy a decent wetsuit though.
Last and not least how the hell do I increase my breath hold haha.
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Yeah, I do a bit but not often. Just free diving is a buzz. I also spear fish if I am camping. Just enough for a meal at night, pick your species then pick your specimen and nail it in the brain. A non wasteful humane method of eating. Plus you get that great full body tiredness that gives you a solid night's sleep.
Have free dived with whale sharks, dugong, various whale and dolphin species, makos, blue sharks, and more. Great cardio training and, like weight training, good mental discipline.
Do the stage A Apnea Freediving course.
Train your breath hold like lifting...take a one breath max in a pool, and there's a set of tables you can use to train with.
I'm not allowed to due to a lung collapse a few years back, but sure looks like a lot of fun.
A lot of big kingies get speared on northern beaches Sydney here.. seems like the only way to land em!
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That's horse shit. If you have real bad asthma or a serious heart condition, yes. But a collapsed lung does not cause permanent damage. You are not breathing compressed air.
Like powerlifting or olympic lifting, a lot of it is mental. If you can calm your mind you can do wonders. Most of the early issues with free diving is convincing your subconcious that you will not drown. Its a survival thing. If you just go lie on your bed and practice breath holding you will find that initially you have a "must take a breath" anxiety. But with practice you can control that.
If you look at the extreme sport of freediving to depth, they meditate before diving to huge depths. Its all mind control followed by physical training/practice.
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