The flavors of Trinidad are undoubtedly garlic, shadow benny (Trinidadian cilantro) and pimento pepper. Almost every dish I’ve ever had at Mustaq Mohammed’s house, which is many, include some variation of these three ingredients. These are used to enhance the freshest foods such as fish just caught by our host […]
The following account was written by Evolve alumni Wade Wilson and outlines his trip to the Cayman Islands. We welcome all alumni to contribute to the blog content! I recently visited Grand Cayman. I had heard about the scuba diving there so I went on two tank dives but found […]
Rifling through my journal I ran across a bunch of potential blog posts that have not yet been used. Most are destined for our sailing blog, some are just for me and will stay that way. However, I did run across these small words of encouragement. I can’t remember the […]
When to taper? Tapering down during training to peak for a specific event is tried and true. It also works for freediving. Those of us don’t live near deep water, are competing a few times a year (or even less) and need to maximize every stage of training have to […]
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. I wish I could tell you that I’ve tried it all but one of the things that really gets my goat are diet fads. All manner of freedivers-at various levels of experience-have imparted their dietary ‘wisdom’ to me at one time or another. […]
“Giving a man a fish will feed him for a day, teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime
Invasive. Likely the only word that comes to mind when you think of the lionfish. Originally indigenous to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Ren and I have witnessed their presence as far reaching as the NC coast, our stomping grounds, down to the Bahamas, over to Honduras, Belize, South Florida, […]
Although this news isn’t new hot off the press anymore I am just now in a position to present it to you on this forum as travel has gotten in the way of my USFA blog obligations. As you may have heard the 2013 Suunto Individual Pool World Championships in […]
It’s no secret, especially if you’ve taken one of our freediving courses before. We highly recommend the Sphera low volume mask by Aqua Lung for freediving and spearfishing. We urge all of our students to switch to this mask. And all of this hype without sponsorship! We get emails all […]
Just a little humor today to keep you guys going until tomorrow, FRIDAY! Don’t worry, it’s water related… A father shark and a his son were swimming round one day when the father shark spotted a life raft full of people. The little son shark asked, “Can we eat them, […]
The Actual Press Release: Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras. United States Freediving Association (USFA) is pleased to announce that Nick Mevoli of Brooklyn, NY set a new United States Men’s Freediving National Record in the Constant Weight discipline, swimming with just one breath of air down to a depth of 100 […]
A few Friday mornings ago I had the pleasure of doing an interview for a woman planning to write a book about mental and spiritual awakenings through freediving. The interviewer was a nice woman who asked really insightful questions. Sure she asked a bit of the same old thing I […]
“What is the pill which will keep us well, serene, contented? Not my or thy great-father’s, but our great-grandmother Nature’s universal, vegetable, botanic medicines, by which she has kept herself young always, outlives so many old Parrs in her day, and fed her health with their decaying fatness.
One of the most limiting factors for freedivers is the inability to equalize at depth. One of the most limiting factors for the freedive instructor is to teach students to equalize. To some degree, the process of equalization, or making the pressure on both sides of the eardrum the […]
Inspired by a recent episode of my favorite radio show, “This American Life
With every dive we are trying to find the deeper meaning of freediving. We feel like part of the elite when we describe our esoteric sport. We boast to our friends and families about five plus minute breatholds and the meters upon meters that we swim straight down into the […]
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