Improve Your Spearfishing
Whether you're just starting out or looking to improve your skills, this course will help you learn to make fish come to you.
This is why you're here
Disclaimer
Why you need specific equipment for spearfishing
Your mask is your most important piece of equipment
How to select and attach your snorkel to your mask
Choosing a spearfishing wetsuit
Characteristics of a freediving weight belt
How to properly select freediving fins
Protect your feet with socks or booties
Keep you hands healthy with gloves
Dive knife selection and usage
Why use a freediving watch
Selecting the right speargun
Reel vs floatline and what's right for you
Dive flags keep you safe
Freediving is fundamental to spearfishing
Use your breathe up to relax and lower your heart rate
The mammalian dive reflex
Think "dive mode" not "breathe up"
How to breathe for spearfishing
The most dangerous way to breathe
Why I had a shallow water blackout
How to take the biggest breath
Make recovery breaths a habit
Equalizing the mask, sinuses and ears
Improving sinus and ear equalization
The art of buoyancy
Why we remove the snorkel
Your perfect water entry
Streamlining for spearfishing
Using buoyancy to save energy
Re-use the air in your mask
How long to stay on the bottom
How long to stay on the surface
What is a shallow water blackout?
Proper buddy diving protocol
You are your own primary safety
What a blackout looks like
Recognizing and preparing for potential blackout situations
How to rescue a blackout
Loss of motor control (LMC)
Post blackout or LMC
Urges to breathe
Why do statics?
Static breath hold
Don't let this be your last freedive lesson
Become an underwater hunter
Basic speargun safety
How to setup a speargun
Rigging your speargun
How to easily load a speargun
Where fish like to live
How to decide where to dive
Be a turtle
How to be a turtle
How to hunt from the bottom
Target selection
How to take high percentage shots
What to do when you shoot a fish
The iki jime method
What to do when your fish gets stuck on the bottom
How to hunt with a buddy
How to efficiently hunt the reef
Safe shark management
Ocean conditions and awareness
Characteristics of an advanced diver
Why attract fish to you
First, do nothing
Scratching and dusting
Grunting
Chumming
How to land on the bottom
Where to land on the bottom
The hand hold
How to move underwater
How to fight large fish
Use your time and energy efficiently
How to use current to your advantage
How to avoid injuries from pressure
Safely pushing your limits
Filming your spearfishing
We have been teaching spearfishing on Youtube for years and have helped so many of you become better divers. I had so much more information to share though so I organized everything into this online course to share with you my complete system.
“Love all your descriptions of the dives with what went right and what went wrong. Excellent teacher! Thanks Ryan.”
“I like the format. Your channel is the best on YT for learning diving and spearfishing techniques.”
“Always being a great teacher! Awesome video as always.”
“Just got my first dozer Moana kali and I give you all the creds Bro been hard to find a mentor so these videos really mean everything to the development of my diving so stoked to be steadily progressing thanks as always for the fire content ”
“Ryan, you've got some of the best spearfishing content. Keep being creative and making in depth videos of all the creative things you do and you'll see some amazing growth. Been spearing/diving for a full year now because of you.”
“Thank you for what you are doing Ryan. Thanks to you and your video's that you and Sam create, my spearfishing knowledge and game has really improved. In my opinion, you are the best in the world at making these videos and breaking them down. ”
“love your content man. I live in South Africa and the tips that you share in your videos have helped me progress a lot as a spearfisherman. ”
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