Online Upgrade to W3I
Upgrading to Wave 3 Instructor opens the door to teaching more advanced freedivers and expanding the level of students you can work with. As the Molchanovs system progresses, Wave 3 represents a major step into deeper depth, refined technique, and more complex safety and rescue scenarios — allowing you to guide students who are pushing further in their freediving journey.
It also strengthens your own teaching toolkit. Wave 3 instructors are equipped to work with higher-level performance requirements, more nuanced equalisation and depth work, and a broader understanding of how to develop confident, independent freedivers. This means more depth in your coaching, more credibility as an educator, and more opportunities to run advanced courses or support progression-focused students.
Furthermore, upgrading keeps you aligned with the most current Molchanovs teaching system, ensuring you stay connected to an evolving global curriculum built by active freedivers and educators. It’s not just an upgrade in certification — it’s a step into the next tier of instructor development, where you can grow both your students and your own teaching career.
Inside the Molchanovs Instructor Community
Instructor Discounts
Who doesn’t love premium freediving gear at a discount, especially with such a wide range of Molchanovs products for every freediving level? As a Molchanovs instructor, you get a 15% discount on gear for yourself and items you want to sell to your students.
Additionally, instructors can also further their own freediving training (and find inspiration for teaching their students) with a 20% discount on Base Training + programs taught by elite freedivers.
Competitive Fees
Molchanovs keeps instructor fees competitive and offers discounted student registration fees for high-volume instructors and schools.
Student registrations also include access to continually updated manuals, ongoing training resources, Molchanovs gear discounts, and additional member benefits - creating strong long-term value that keeps students engaged in their freediving progression.
Seminars and Webinars
Molchanovs sees instructors as an investment, which is why it is important for them to make sure you feel valued, satisfied, and up-to-date with everything freediving! Molchnaovs frequently holds seminars and webinars for Molchanovs Movement members, instructors, and Instructor Trainers to discuss developments in freediving, new techniques, the latest education material updates, and hear thoughts and suggestions. After all - it is their individual voices that shape our education system.
Support
Molchanovs places a strong emphasis on instructor support and continuous improvement. Instructors and students have access to a dedicated support team for questions, feedback, and guidance, ensuring issues are handled quickly and professionally.
Instructor Trainers also have direct communication channels with the Molchanovs leadership team, helping shape updates and improvements to the education system as it continues to evolve.
Meet Your Instructor:
Brandon Reed
Join Freediving Family’s Director of Education Brandon Reed as he works with you, lending his years of experience working with hundreds of students from all over the world to help you cross over to the Molchanovs Freediving Education System.
FAQ’s
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Day 1: 3-4 hours of online theory
Day 2 and 3: Individual online zoom sessions with students to present on course topics and cross off teaching requirements. This will be scheduled with Brandon on Day 1.
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All open water requirements can be submitted via video to brandon@freedivingfamily.com and will be crossed off remotely.
To correctly submit a requirement, you must:
- Complete the requirement to the standards of the Molchanovs system
- You must have a safety
- You must have another individual recording (doesnt have to dive with you, but they do need to record an uninterrupted video from duck dive to showing the depth on your dive computer after recovering)
- If doing static, the camera can be stationary with a safety present in the water with you -
You have a full year to submit your requirements after the crossover concludes.
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You are able to complete requirements in person before or after any Deep Week event if Brandon is available to observe the attempt.
Sign Up Now!
$580 AUD
Online Crossover
Secure your spot. You can pay the remainder 1 month before the start of your course.
