In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll hear from Kirk Krack about how to train to become a freediving instructor.
Welcome To The Show!
Welcome to the dive locker podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.
Hey everyone, I hope you’re all handling these coronavirus restrictions well. I am. Sure there are plenty of negatives with this, but I am very intentional about finding the awesomeness of this time. I’ve had more time with my family, I’ve had less work stress and traffic related stress. My creativity is up and I’m developing myself physically and professionally. I’ve told you all about my fitness journey with the FitOn App and Primal Blueprint diet. They are going great by the way.
But also all the many webinars and podcasts that can develop us professionally that I talked about last week. There’s really good stuff out there. In fact, I was just on The Diver Medic’s webinar with Chantelle Newman. My topic was on Physical Stressors in Diving – the most overlooked issue in our industry. Go to The Diver Medic website to see the replay if you’d like.
But today I want to continue to take you on my announced journey to become a freediving instructor. As I mentioned in previous episodes I have always had a passion for freediving. But over the years I watched as others had gone through advanced training and became freediving instructors. Well I applauded them and championed them, but I did not do it myself. So now is the time that I’m going to prepare to become a freediving instructor.
My Instructor Trainer – Kirk Krack
So to do this I reached out to, in my opinion, the top freediving instructor trainer in the world Kirk Krack the founder of Performance Freediving International. He co-founded PFI in 2000 and has done all kinds of scientific study of hypoxic effects on the human body. Kirk has trained seven athletes to 23 world records and dozens more to hundreds of national records. Chief among these is Kirk’s wife, Mandy-Rae Krack. Kirk trained and coached Mandy-Rae to seven world records and 13 Canadian records. Through its over 100 highly trained and rigorously qualified and insured instructors, PFI has trained and certified over 10,000 freedivers.
In 2016, Kirk was named the Diver’s Alert Network (DAN)/Rolex Diver of the Year. Krik also teaches freediving to Swift water rescue teams, Search and rescue teams, and Military special forces operators.
Kirk’s unique wealth of experience and talent for teaching have made his services highly sought after by those who want and need the absolute best. Among the individuals Kirk has trained are: Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson for their underwater roles in the blockbuster feature film Mission: Impossible–Rogue Nation. Margot Robbie and her stunt double for their underwater roles in Suicide Squad (in which Kirk also served as a credited on-screen stunt double for Batman). Endurance performer and illusionist David Blaine for his world record breath-hold attempts live on the Oprah Winfrey Show (he survived over 17 minutes on a single breath of oxygen-enriched air). Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn, and Woody Harrelson.
And Most recently, as you’ll hear, he’s worked with actors on the set of James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar 2,
Now he has his own freediving training company called the Performance Freediving Academy. So, you can see why he was my go to guy for becoming a freediving instructor.
Items In This Episode
- The Diver Medic Webinars
- Performance Freediving Academy
- Ted Harty’s Immersion Freediving Online Courses
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