Freediving Australia!
Let’s get you freediving!
Our school in Australia is called, Freediving Australia. It is the largest and most active freediving school in the country. We run every level of freediving courses from absolute beginner all the way up to instructor and competitor levels.
We have freediving centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Perth and the Central Coast.
If you don’t live near one of our freediving centres we can send an instructor to you! Safe to say, we’ve got you covered!
We also run freediving trips around the country and overseas, regular freediving training and fun/social dives. You’re about to join the largest and most active network of freedivers in Australia!
Our courses are fun and relaxed because that's the best way for anyone to learn to freedive and let's face it... freediving is fun!
One of the great misconceptions about freediving is that it is an extreme activity and requires super human mental powers to do it. But anyone and everyone can freedive.
All humans possess an innate ability to hold their breath and dive. When done right, breath holds and dives are a beautiful experience with no discomfort at all. You just need someone to guide you through the process and you’ll see how beautiful and safe freediving can be.
On our freediving courses at no point in time will you do a breath hold or dive that isn't 100% comfortable. All your dives and breath holds will be 100% bliss from start to finish. This is the guiding rule in freediving and it’s is the same for complete beginners and world champions.
Check our locations to book a Freediving & Spearfishing course near you
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Perth
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Melbourne
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Sydney
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Central Coast
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Gold Coast
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Brisbane
Why take a freediving course?
Everyone dives for their own reasons.
Some people want simply to explore the ocean. Some seek interactions with aquatic animals. Some people see freediving as a form of meditation. Some like to forage and spearfish. Some love underwater photography. Others freedive as a means to manage mental or physical illness.
The list goes on and more and more these days people are applying their own unique motivations to freediving.
We are lucky to have the most experienced freediving instructors in Australia and each of them specialise in different areas of freediving. This allows us to tailor each course to the needs and desires of the student.
We aim to get you what you want out of your freediving course and to teach you everything you need to stay safe and keep progressing!
A good instructor guides students through what could be a potentially scary experience and makes it all feel effortless.
Our instructors have more experience and knowledge than anyone else in Australia.
The Molchanovs Education System
At the freediving world championships in 2017, Australian Champion, Adam Stern and current world record holder, Alexey Molchanov, were living together for the competition. At this time both of them were unhappy with the current education systems that existed and knew that they could create something better. This was when the Molchanovs Movement was born. Soon, Chris Kim joined the team and together the three of them created what is now considered the worlds leading freediving education system.
Since then, almost every high level competitive freediver and expert freediving instructor has joined the Molchanovs Movement enriching it with their experience and knowledge.
Besides having the largest wealth of freediving knowledge and resources to draw upon, what truly sets the Molchanovs Movement apart from other education systems is the focus on continued training and development. A diver does not get better by taking many freediving courses. A diver improves through training because freediving is an athletic activity.
Freediving courses are where we learn new skills, knowledge and are a period of accelerated development but then what happens after the course? Where does a diver go from there?
This is why all Molchanovs students get access to Base Training. A weekly training program tailor made each week by the worlds best freediving athletes. All the workouts are scalable and designed for any level of freediver to work with. Nothing like Base Training exists anywhere else.
Welcome to the community!
Taking your freediving course is just the beginning of your freediving journey.
You'll now be a part of the Freediving Family community! We are a busy, bustling and chatty community that plan fun dives, freediving training and freediving trips away together! Once you finish your course we’ll add you to our Facebook Group so you can keep freediving!
Anyone that has taken a freediving course with us is also welcome to join in on our line training free of charge if there is room for you on the buoy.
Each Sunday, when our instructors are running courses, if there's room on the line then you're always welcome to join.
On top of the Molchanovs Base Training you will also be given access to Freediving Family’s weekly remote freediving training. These are Zoom breath hold training sessions. In short, we want to provide our divers with as many options for them to keep diving. Whether they just want to join in on our fun dives, follow the Molchanovs Base Training, join our pool training sessions or jump on Zoom once a week to keep improving. The community is the best part of freediving!
We are always planning trips away! Here are some our destinations we travel to regularly:
Bali (Indonesia)
Panglao (Philippines)
Coron (Philippines)
Recognica (Croatia)
Mt Gambier (South Australia)
Dean’s Blue Hole (Bahamas)
Jervis Bay (NSW Australia)
Dubai (UAE)
Phuket (Thailand)
Our Instructors
Freediving Family has the largest network of instructors in Australia. Our Instructors have either done their Instructor training with Adam as their Mentor, or worked in Freediving Family Events like Deep Week.
They share a common philosophy of learning in a safe and fun environment and they emphasise that freediving is not about the depth… it’s about the experience, the ride!
Get ready to dive into yourself and all your potentials with our courses. Get ready to have a blast!
All out instructors are experienced and amazing but they do each have a range of specialties so let us know why you want to freedive so we can pair you with an instructor you will resonate with best!
