West Australian Freediving and Spearfishing Academy

04/09/2025

Some freedive events coming up this Spring! 🌸

03/09/2025

Are you ready for 3-months of breathing better and strengthening good breathing habits, improving your fitness and re-teaching your body how to activate your mammalian diving response for relaxation instantaneously in the water?

Join Perth’s longest running freedivers’ weekly professional training squad with Blueback Freediving & Yoga

Train effectively for freediving and in a fun, social, safety-managed environment while improving holistic health.

Pool freedive training is a great way to see consistent practise and coaching improve the way freediving feels and the level of enjoyment you experience as a more skilled and confident underwater breath-holder.

More info and to book Www.bluebackfreedivingandyoga.com

22/11/2024

Dear West Australian Freediving and Spearfishing Academy!

You are invited to join us for the Blueback Freediving & Yoga sponsored not-for-profit Fremantle Underwater Film Festival shows, freediving and scuba diving short films, WA-made underwater short stories, sea community connection and a whole lot more this weekend!

Raising funds through 100% of ticket sales profit for Māui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders to save the critically endangered Maui Dolphin from extinction.

23-24 Nov 2024
Fremantle Sailing Club
Www.fuff.com.au

Don’t miss out!

05/11/2024

Curious about developing as a freediver?

Do you want to dedicate some time to learning how to:

🌊relax your nervous system,
🌊breathe fully and functionally,
🌊improve the flexibility and strength of your breathing muscles,
🌊sharpen your freedive technique to be more oxygen-efficient while developing your breath-hold in a safe, controlled environment?
🌊unlock the innate healing of body and mind through breathing practice

Then join Western Australia’s longest running professionally-led “Blueback Freedivers Squad”!

This training is for certified freedivers only.

We’ve been sad to hear of a growing number of freedivers putting themselves at risk doing breath-holding without proper professional knowledge or support. There is an increase in instructors who have spent very little time learning how to safely instruct students in Perth and around the world, as the sport grows, and who may be copying professional methods without the depth of knowledge needed to provide this kind of training safely to the public.

This is a risk to both individuals and the sport of freediving itself. It is only safe when the set and setting is safe. That setting is not safe when you’re being guided by someone who has not spent more than a week learning how to teach freediving safely.

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Why join our Spring Squad as a casual?
Why book ahead to join our Summer Squad on either a Tuesday or Thursday night?

It’s more enjoyable to practise together with other trained freedivers, it makes you more accountable to record and reflect on your performance, and it’s certainly not worth your life to develop unsafe practises, training either alone or with friends or instructors who do not know how to follow international protocols and best practise standards of safety.

Our focus is your enjoyment, health, and safety, with your performances improving as an outcome of simply showing up to develop using our tried and tested freedive methods.

I’ve been guiding and teaching freediving for over a decade, training many freedivers who have gone on to compete and gain national and world records. I pride myself on teaching freedivers to understand their breath-hold and how to listen to their bodies, rather than simply giving you a big number to achieve. My training is adaptable and flexible within reasonable boundaries, as each and every breath-hold should be, to ensure the health and safety of the freedivers participating.

Our Blueback Freedivers Squad is NOT a place to push your limits, but a community to explore your aquatic potential in a safe, wise and compassionate way.

If you’re interested to train competitively, then I recommend training with us one-on-one with appropriate oxygen-support equipment poolside and a facility that is aware of the risks and on board to help manage the risks.

The Blueback Freedivers’ Squad is a specially formulated 2-hour weekly session that will make improving in freediving fun, safe and with professional guidance.

We suggest you get the support you need and deserve if you have competitive goals - which is in a very controlled, one-on-one setting.

Our community freedive squad is a way to develop towards your Advanced and Master Level performance goals in any freedive system. With our seasonal programs you receive a huge discount to join as a regular as we know the more you train in the right way, the better you will get.

Feel free to ask me any questions. Our school Blueback Freediving & Yoga has provided over a decade of freediving pool training, courses, charters, community days and retreats…and I still love it!

0439770038
Bluebackfreedivingandyoga@gmail.com

We want you to be safe, have fun and enjoy the well-being benefits of freediving. Check out our growing blog posts to learn more about how regular freediving can improve your health, fitness and mood. Our professional team look forward to caring for you and providing you with the best recreational freedive training in Australia.

https://www.bluebackfreedivingandyoga.com/post/the-wellbeing-benefits-of-freediving

If you haven’t yet learned to freedive, join one of our:

🐬 20-hour comprehensive “Learn to Freedive” courses (called Level 1 Freediver),
🐬or shorter (12-hour) safety + confidence courses which includes online learning to save you time (called the Basic Freediver course).

See our website link above to navigate to our course dates this dive season.

If you love the water, need more nature, community, deeper breaths and better self-understanding - come join WA’s best freedive training community.

We’d love to support your journey to becoming both a better version of yourself and a safer, more confidence aquatic human!
☺️🌊🌏❤️

27/09/2024

Ready for some blue mind time?

Let the saltwater wash your mind clear, and rinse out the knots.

Blueback Freediving & Yoga
0439770038

*Early bird price still available until 29 September ($15 off).

18/09/2024

Need a week in Bali?

Come join me for an island paradise break while seeing the wonders of the underwater world around the Nusa Penida Marine Park.

If you’re not a certified freediver, I’ll include some foundational learning and the opportunity to certify during subsequent pool training throughout the year in Perth.

Check out the full program here:

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Early bird discount applies for Blueback Freediving & Yoga Blueback Community Freedivers. Save $370 if you book before 21 September.

Chat anytime for more info 0439770038

02/08/2024

Did you know that freediving is not only an extreme sport but can be experienced and taught as a contemplative practise?

Blueback Freediving & Yoga run Western Australia’s best, and most individually customized freedive training by Perth’s most experienced pool coach, facilitating safety-managed freedive training for over 10 years.

Develop your recreational freediving skills, apnea ability, safety knowledge all while making new ocean-loving friends. Enjoy increasing your flexibility, balance and strength by joining our 3-month seasonal training that provides our unique signature program incorporating deep relaxation, skills refinement and careful attention to your safety needs.

Blueback Freedivers who train regularly report a whole range of holistic well-being benefits that are integrated into the teachings and trainings each week including:

-sleeping better,
-enjoying the well-being benefits of aquatic and apnea-based training in a safe and controlled setting,
-understanding and practicing meditation and mindfulness,
-better self-regulation of both mood and emotions,
-feeling happier
-feeling more relaxed in general
-no longer “sweating the small stuff”
-better self-awareness
-better self-acceptance
-longer breath holds, easily and safely
-further breath-holds, easily and safely

Must be PADI Basic Freediver or Level 1 Freediver certified.

Limited places.
Book ahead.

Tuesdays are in a heated indoor pool.
Thursdays are in a geothermal outdoor pool.
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Bluebackfreedivingandyoga@gmail.com to register.

18/07/2024

Who would like to learn life-saving skills for dive safety with a 'Dive-specific Oxygen Provision Course'?
This Monday 22 July 2024.
Limited Places.
$200
5:30pm - 9:30pm
Pre-requisite Senior First Aid (Current).

Please note this is a requirement to attempt Advanced Freediver / Level 2 training with Blueback Freediving & Yoga or undertake coaching, volunteering as a safety freediver or Instructor's assistant / Freedivemaster Training in 2024/2025. The cert is valid for 1 year and must be held prior to Advanced Freediver training.

Note: This is not in-water training or freedive rescue training. This is covered by your freedive certification training with a recognized RTO or qualified trainer such as Blueback.

See below for course contents and text to enquire or book on (04397770038).

Oxygen Administration with CPR for Diving

The aim of this course is to develop skills and knowledge required to deliver basic Oxygen administration to people who need it. The participant will also learn how to assemble an Oxygen unit and how to administer it in three different ways to patients. Finally the participant will be taught CPR techniques and in what situations CPR should be given.
Course contents include:
• Anatomy and Physiology of Respiration and Circulation
• Approach to an Incident
• Respiratory Arrest and Airway Clearance
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Benefits and Precautions of Oxygen Provision
• Oxygen Equipment
• Accident Scenarios and Oxygen Delivery Techniques
Course Duration: 3 - 5 hours
Pre-requisite: Current Senior First Aid Ticket Certificate

12/07/2024

Blueback Freediving & Yoga and Blueback Freedivers' Squad is now open for Winter Season Squad bookings.

Limited to 12 freedivers.
Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm.
For certified freedivers' only.

Join a freedive course this Spring to learn how to freedive for health and well-being, nature-connectedness and to join a friendly local community of healthy humans based in Perth, WA.

07/07/2024

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier”.

- Charles Kettering

Our local Perth freediving legend, Helen Allison has done it again!

Sharing her story about her inspiring experiences as a 70-year-old freediving world record holder and marine zoologist with ABC Perth. Great story by journalist, Kenith Png

We know Helen for her passion for underwater life, as she joins us, Perth Freedivers Club and Blueback Freediving & Yoga community freedive events and adventures throughout the years.

I remember identifying fish life with Helen on the Ningaloo Reef in the turtle and reef shark-filled lagoon in Gnaraloo. Most women would quibble about the risks but Helen manages them all in her incredibly pragmatic way.

It goes to show how an open mind sees open doorways, opportunity and reward at every turn!

It’s been an incredibly fun journey with Helen, exploring her aquatic potential in and around Perth, Indonesia and the remote waters of Ningaloo Reef over the past decade and to now see her on the big screen sharing her story.

We wish her safety & wellness on her next adventure at the world freediving competition in Greece later this year.

30/05/2024

So overjoyed! I have put up my hand, with the invaluable encouragement of my friend Barry Brumble, to take a trip overseas this winter to Indonesia (10-18 August), to show people who love freediving and the ocean some of the underwater wonders of these remarkably biodiverse waters.

I've been running my sole trader business for almost 10 years now (next year is a BIG year to celebrate) and have taken groups of freedivers from the remote Ningaloo region (Gnaraloo) to freedive with turtles down to the whale-filled bays of Banjelungup-Bremer Bay and across to Wadjemup-Rottnest Island to roll around with the sea pups underwater by Cathedral Rocks. After almost 20 years of freediving and 13 years of training freedivers, it feels like a reward for patience that this moment may be arriving soon.

It has always been one of my dreams to start guiding curated overseas freediving tours with Blueback Freediving & Yoga, teaching people about the remarkable beauty, complexity and integrity of the underwater world but with covid, cancer-care for my Dad and running the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival, dreams have often been on hold.

It feels good now to poke my head out of my turtle shell and venture back overseas, back to watching giant mantas flying through the ocean and back to the feelings of positive overwhelm surrounded by the phenomenal biodiversity and abundance of tropical coral reefs.

It is my pleasure and privilege to guide and educate people in how to connect safely with the ocean. For me, it is the most effective way to instantaneously inspire wonder and enhance well-being while allowing the experience itself to raise curiosity and concern for the natural world.

My hope is that this work deepens our human connection to the biotic community we are a part of, in such a way that one is reawakened to just how beautiful it is to be alive and also, how important it is to act thoughtfully when moving within ecosystems or interacting with other members of the biotic community.

I am feeling both inspired and terrified in equal measure when I consider the responsibility of looking after people far away from home but also incredibly grateful to have the time, skills and capacity to now fill these shoes, take others by the hand and guide them forward to rewire, rewild and reconnect with the part of themselves that knows it belongs here, wants to live fully, and is ready to be restored through saltwater, sunshine and 'Duchenne smiles'.

What have you always dreamed of doing?

17/05/2024

One of our favourite places to really feel lost in wilderness. Well worth protecting.

We love these little freaky fish. Why not get behind the survival of their tribe? They are uniquely Australian, after all.

5 signatures are still needed! Protect Seadragon Habitats in Banjelungup-Bremer Bay