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 […]
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. […]
In the twelve years since PFI’s [Performance Freediving International] inception and the seventeen years since its first concept was developed, we continue to be the industry leader in the sport and recreation of Freediving. Not only have we in all our iterations worked with seven athletes to 22 world records, […]
Some answers to frequently asked questions about freediving courses: 1. Am I too old for this sport? Ask Russian freediver, Natalia Molchanova the same question and see what she says. The 51 year old athlete holds all the self powered discipline world records including CWT, FIM, CNF, DYN, DNF and […]
Port Canaveral, FL. Evolve Freediving along with Allison’s father, Joe Penovich, are proud to announce that Alli Penovich of Cocoa Beach, FL set a new spearfishing world record in the women’s speargun division while freediving on just one breath of air, harvesting an 11.4 pound (5.2 kg) northern red snapper, […]
“Giving a man a fish will feed him for a day, teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime
Dr. John Shedd is a spearo out of Palm Beach, Florida, PFI safety diver and friend of ours. We met him through the PFI competition, Deja Blue where he provides the advanced medical support for the event. He is also soft spoken, loves coffee, is in great shape and is […]
Comic Relief. A humorous break by Grant Hogan. All bad language by Grant Hogan has been replaced by this: *Evolve* I was going through my computer deleting stuff and I found this. I guess I wrote it after that night at Jai Alai. I thought you might enjoy it. Please […]
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, […]
We talk to complete strangers all the time who are either enamored or appalled at the notion of freediving. They either think it is the coolest thing in the world or, well, that we are idiots. I think there is a bit of truth in both assumptions, but I digress. […]
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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