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LAUFEND NEUE KURSE
AIDA
Competition Freediver
Course Outline PREREQUISITES
To enrol in the AIDA Competition Freediver course, an individual
must: COURSE PURPOSE AIDA Competition Freediver is a course for anyone who plans on entering an AIDA Competition for the first time and/or wants to know more about how one works. Students will develop their knowledge and skills of the main competitive categories of freediving including Static Apnea, Dynamic Apnea and Constant Weight freediving. The instructor will cover all the competition rules and procedures in the classroom before re-creating a competition environment out in the pool and/or open water to give the student a real sense of how it can be in a competition situation.
To conduct an AIDA Competition Freediver course, the following
knowledge development, confined water and
Open Water sessions are to be included: KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT The knowledge development will take place in a classroom-like environment. The Instructor should supply the student with a hand out of the current AIDA regulations for International Freediving Competitions.You may find it useful to have other reference materials handy such as freediving competition DVD’s. The AIDA Competition Freediver exam must be completed by any student certified as an AIDA Competition Freediver. The passing score is 75%. Any missed questions should be explained to the student and the student must sign the bottom of the exam to indicate that this has taken place. If the student does not pass the exam on first sitting, they may resit after 24 hours.
NOTE! This course outline have not yet been ajusted to the AIDA
International Competition and Record rules
Version 12. The paragraphe numbering bellow is therefore incorrect,
but each subject should still be covered in
the course. The theory session(s) will include:
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AIDA regulations for International Freediving Competitions- general
rules General rules for all the disciplines:
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Paper work 1.6 -1.9, 1.12, 1.18 including Medical Statement,
Passport and AIDA
Special Rules for Constant Weight with or without fins:
Special Rules for Free Immersion: Safety at Competitions:
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The competitor’s announcement General Information for Competitors:
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Difference between training and competing- how your performances are
affected CONFINED WATER SESSION
This course may be conducted at any swimming pool or confined water
site although it is recommended the pool
be at least 25 metres long. Students should always have access to a
float, pool-side or other means of support
on surfacing. Confined Water Session- Static and Dynamic Apnea After this session the student freediver will be able to:
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Plan a Static Apnea warm up taking no longer than 45 minutes in the
water OPEN WATER DIVE SESSION- Constant Weight These dives should be conducted in open water with a line to be used as a point of reference by the student freediver. This line should be sufficiently buoyed and weighted so that the student freediver could use it to pull up or down if necessary. The line should be at least 8mm in diameter. The maximum depth of the freedives should be limited to the announced depth of the student by placing a bottom plate on the line. A lanyard should be used for all dives except warm-up dives. After this open water session, the student freediver will be able to:
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Plan a Constant Weight warm up taking no longer session than 45mins EQUIPMENT Student Equipment – mask, bi-fins or monofin, snorkel, appropriate exposure protection, weightbelt, lanyard
Instructor Equipment –
mask, bi-fins or monofin, snorkel, appropriate exposure protection,
weightbelt, stop
watch, depth gauge, first aid kit, guideline with bottom plate,
tags, lanyard and floatation device, oxygen
administration kit (in countries where this is permitted or required
by local law) (If there is a student that is Optional Equipment –nose clip, goggles, lights, underwater video camera, surface video camera INSTRUCTOR SUPERVISION The AIDA Competition Freediver course may be conducted by an Active AIDA Instructor who is also an AIDA Judge with current CPR and First Aid training (completed within the last two years). The instructor should carry liability insurance for teaching freediving. The maximum student diver-to-instructor ratio for open water training dives is four students per instructor (4:1). This may rise to six students per instructor (6:1) when the instructor is assisted by another freediver qualified to at least AIDA **** AND AIDA Competition freediver level. The maximum student diver-to-instructor ratio in confined water is eight students per instructor (8:1). With an AIDA **** Freediver acting as an Assistant, 4 additional students may be added to this ratio to a maximum of 12 students.
ADMINISTRATION AND PAPERWORK Before commencing any in-water training, each student freediver must complete the following documents, for students aged under 18 years, both must be co-signed by a parent or guardian:
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AIDA Medical Statement – this must be completed in full with
students marking
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AIDA Liability Release or local equivalentThe AIDA Instructor should hold these CERTIFICATION PROCEDURES
Freedivers who meet all the performance requirements outlined above
may be certified as an AIDA Competition Freediver. Students who meet all the performance requirements other
than those listed under ‘Open Water Dive
Session’ may be certified as AIDA Pool Competition Freediver.
Students who complete the full AIDA Competition Freediver course in
combination with the AIDA ****Freediver
course will be certified as AIDA ****Freediver/Competition.The certification request should mot be send later than 3 month from
the certification date. KEY STANDARDS
Prerequisite certifications: AIDA **Freediver or equivalent
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