World of Freediving is now an AIDA instructor training center. For individuals looking to become professional freediving instructors the AIDA IC presents the knowledge, and experience you will need to become an effective freediving instructor. Last month we conducted two instructor courses here in Dahab; One in English and one in Russian…both of which were a big success.
The Russian course took place in early November and was actually a milestone for AIDA education. This was the first instructor course in the history of AIDA to be run fully in Russian by Russians speaking Instructor trainers. Katya Smirnova from Ukraine and Konstantin Borisov from Russia were the instructor trainers responsible for this course. It was a historic event indeed with one of the world’s most well known freedivers, Alexey Molchanov attending this program. The days were long, the candidates worked hard, but at the end of it everyone was satisfied with the results. It was very nice to see the enthusiasm from all sides and we look forward to the next Russian IC coming in the near future. Congratulations to Alena Molchanova, Lena Petrushina, and Pavel Shishkin for completing this program.
Our English course met with some interesting challenges, and turned out to be a good learning experience for all parties in involved. It is a funny thing actually…though this course was conducted fully in English, not a single one of the Candidates spoke English as their first language. On the courses we had Maxim Iskander - French Canadian/Egyptian, Andreas Peper – Germany, and Alex Kovelev – Russia. I guess all those classes on intercultural relations that I took in Business school finally paid off by allowing me to work with such a diverse group of people. Thank you University of Alberta! I believe it also helped that we all have one thing in common, the love of the sea and freediving. I really enjoyed teaching this course! It was great to have such a talented group of freedivers and well motivated learners on this instructor course and only hope to be this lucky with students in the future. Congratulations to all you guys for finishing this program with us. I would also like to say a special thanks to Konstantin and Katya for assisting with this course.
We will have more instructor courses Running in the near future so stay posted to our blog and web site for upcoming course dates.
Thanks to everyone for your hard work and dedication, we wish you a long and happy career as freediving instructors.
Dean Spahic
World of Freediving,
www.worldoffreediving.net
