Molchanovs Junior Freediving Education

Benefits

Children’s bodies are constantly developing, and freediving training can help them thrive in extraordinary ways - particularly their cardiovascular and respiratory systems!

As children learn how to freedive, some of the natural outcomes include:

• Muscle gain
• Increased lung tissue elasticity
• Increased vital capacity
• Increased respiratory muscle strength
• Improved blood supply to the brain and heart
• Increased heart muscle strength
• Increased stroke volume
• Improved regulation of vascular tone and elasticity
• Increased oxygen absorption by the cells of the body
• Disease prevention

Features

In Junior Freediving courses, children start by learning basic swimming techniques. As they get older and advance through the levels, they start to learn freediving disciplines and train it as a sport.

Practical tasks include:

• Learning basic swimming techniques
• Front crawl
• Backstroke
• Breaststroke
• Practicing how to move in water with and without fins
• Understanding and practicing the technical elements of freediving
• Duck dive
• Turns
• Breathing techniques before and after diving
• Training aerobic and anaerobic endurance
• Increasing resistance to hypercapnia and acidosis

What makes the Molchanovs Junior Freediving Education System different from other youth programs?

Extensive experience

The author of the Molchanovs Junior Freediving Education System, Dr. Olga Lukova, has over 12 years of experience conducting Junior freediving trainings in Russia. Joining her are a group of experienced Junior ITs who are both educators and athletes dedicated to providing high-quality training.

Dedicated to Natalia’s philosophy

Natalia Molchanova, World Champion freediver and the inspiration for Molchanovs as an education system, always strived for safe and efficient freediving through education and training. Molchanovs is committed to her principles, which were the basis of the adult Lap/Wave Freediving courses. Those very same principles live on in the Junior Freediving Education System.

Comprehensive courses

The Molchanovs Junior Freediving Education System consists of courses for each age group, which is further divided into multiple levels of pool and open water courses. This ensures children get a thorough education and experience in either body of water.