Take your freediving experience to the next level with the RAID Advanced Freediver course
Improve your freediving performance with the RAID Advanced Freediver course. Sophisticated techniques and further knowledge of the mammalian diving reflex will help improve your body’s response when freediving, enabling you to dive deeper and longer.
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Your two day RAID Advanced freediving certification course is a fantastic opportunity to increase your freediving skills and take your world of freediving to the next level.
Prior to attending the practical elements of the course you will have a short theory course to complete in your own time at home (or on the commute, or anywhere you like!). You will also have access to our online video tutorial library containing over 25 recordings (suitable to Advanced Level) made by the Go Freediving team, to help you improve your confidence and technique before the practical elements of the course.
If you haven’t taken a course with us before, kit and wetsuits are provided and our courses are held at the beautiful location of Vobster Quay – a purpose built inland dive centre – so we can guarantee no tides, no waves, no currents, and fantastic visibility due to the spring water. It may sometimes rain, but the diving conditions are always perfect and our courses are never cancelled due to bad weather or sea conditions.
We also have the highest instructor/student ratios on our RAID Freediver courses so, coupled with our very personal approach, you’re free to progress at your own pace. Taught by some of the world’s most experienced instructors and providing unrivalled materials and support, no other course offers such a comprehensive package or wealth of experience.
Our instructors make sure you never exceed your own limits or comfort zone – you set a pace that you’re comfortable with.
By the end of the weekend you skills, technical ability, breath hold and confidence means you could be diving to depths up to 30m in the most relaxed and safe manner possible. You’ll dive submerged boats, trucks, cars and planes, through shoals of beautiful fish and learn new skills to take your freediving to the next level.
To be eligible to take the RAID Advanced Freediver course you must have at least one of the following certifications:
RAID Freediver
SSI Level 1
Aida 2*
You also need to have a current (within the last 2 years) CPR and First Aid course certificate.
FAQs
As well as answers to our regular FAQs found HERE, we have a few extra below relating to the RAID Advanced Course.
If you have not freedived for 6 months or more, we highly recommend preparing for your course by joining one of our pre-course training sessions (also known as returning student sessions). These training days, will not only update and refresh skills, but will ensure you are already primed to maximise your performance on your course weekend.
In addition to this we also suggest you start taking our breathing optimisation classes. These classes have helped students significantly improve their performance and will ensure your lungs are optimised for maximum performance on your course weekend.
At Go Freediving, we follow the RAID freediving course programme, and offer students a four tiered learning package featuring online theory, exclusive tailor made video content, confined water and open water practical sessions. We aim to equip you with the knowledge and skills to make you a safe and competent advanced freediver in any aquatic environment.
Freediving Skills taught on the RAID Advanced Freediver Course
- Correct breathing techniques, both in preparation, and when you surface from a dive
- Identification and selection of the right freediving equipment for you
- The Valsalva, Toynbee, Frenzel and BTV equalisation manoeuvres
- Tips and tricks to make equalisation easier and prevent baratrauma
- Establishing safe and correct buoyancy
- Correct duck diving
- How to fin using freediving fins and maintain streamlining
- The freediving disciplines of Dynamic Apnea, Constant Weight, and Free Immersion
- Correct use of a buoy and line
- Rescue and self rescue skills from depth and at the surface
- Tired and unconscious diver tows
- How to deal with potential hazards, from cramp to mask loss
- Correct buddying, both at the surface and from depth
The venue for your course is the beautiful purpose built dive centre Vobster Quay. To find out more about the location visit their page, here: https://www.vobster.com/
Why we chose an inland dive centre for our students
Vobster Quay is a premier location for learning to freedive! This purpose built venue is oozing with wildlife and amazing structures to explore making it a wonderful underground playground.
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What you get at Vobster:
- Safety
- Convenience
- Warm temperatures
- Great visibility
- Spring-fed clean water
- Changing rooms and toilets and hot showers right next to the water
- Marine life (including thousands of fish and the endangered white clawed crayfish)
- Underwater attractions – Sea King helicopter, aeroplane in three sections, car, caravan, boats, crushing works and more!
- Opportunities to experiment with more equipment and kit.
- Hot food and snacks available
- A shop
What you don’t get at Vobster:
- Tides and currents
- Choppy water, waves and swell
- Seasickness
- Weather dependent courses
- Boat traffic
- Poor visibility
- Pollution
- Marine debris
Want to see what happens on our RAID Advanced freediving course weekends?
Check out some of our videos!
What’s included
- Theory material
- Tuition
- Life time access to our exclusive freediving tutorial video library
- All freediving equipment hire including: Freediving long fins, low volume mask, snorkel, freediving weight belt, weight, neoprene socks and gloves, and specialist freediving wetsuit
- Course certification and certification card (dependent on performance)
Not included
- Vobster Quay entry fee (details)
- Personal travel and subsistence costs
- First Aid certification
If you haven’t found the answer to your question, check out our full FAQ section HERE or contact us as info@gofreediving.co.uk
2024 Dates NOW AVAILABLE!!
22 – 23 June 2024
7 – 8 September 2024
Venue:
Downside School, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Radstock, Somerset, BA3 4RJ
&
Vobster Quay, Upper Vobster, Radstock, BA3 5SD
Course times are as follows:
Saturday: 2pm – 8pm (Vobster Quay)
Sunday: 9:30am – 12:00pm (Downside School Pool)
Sunday: 2pm – 8pm (Vobster Quay)
Plus abroad on all of our holidays
To take part in our RAID Advanced Freediver course you must be:
- 15 years of age or older
- Able to swim 400m unaided
- Have a current CPR and First Aid Qualification (you can complete this after your course)
- RAID Freediver or AIDA 2 star or SSI Level 1 qualified
You will be required to complete a self-certifying medical form before the course. If you answer ‘yes’ to any of the conditions listed you must get approval from your GP.
- Course materials
- Online learning
- Video tutorials
- 1 x 30 live, on-line breathing class
- Pool session entry fee
- All Kit
- Wetsuit
- Tuition
- Certification
- Entry fees for Vobster (you will be able to pay this via Go Freediving during your course preparation)
- Meals, drinks
- Accommodation
- Transport to or from venues
- First Aid course
