Static Apnea Training: Technique, Safety and Progress
Static apnea training means holding your breath while lying still, and the right way to train it is to build time slowly through relaxation ...
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Issue Nº 14Winter 2026The Spearfishing Journal
Hunt Deeper.
Dive Smarter.
Field-tested gear, hard-won technique and dive logs from the edge of the reef — for hunters who'd rather be underwater.
Editor's Picks
All gear reviews
Featured Stories
Freediving
Nº 01 — Lead Story
Apnea Walks: The Land-Based CO₂ Drill for Spearos
An apnea walk is a breath-hold done while walking at a steady pace on flat, safe ground, and it's the best land drill for spearos becaus...
Field Notes — More to read
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Freediving
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Static Apnea Training: Technique, Safety and Progress
Freediving
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Dry Training for Freediving: A 30-Minute Home Routine
Freediving
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Freediving Training for Spearfishing: The Complete Program
Beginners
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Freshwater Spearfishing: Rules, Species and Technique
Safety
Hole Hunting: Spearfishing Reef Holes and Ledges Safely
The Beginner's Path
New to the breath-hold game?
Four stages take you from your first nervous duck-dive to a calm, confident 15-metre hunt — safely, and entirely at your own pace.
Start the path-
0–2 mStage 01
Breathe & relax
Master the breath-up and the mammalian dive reflex before you ever slip under.
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5 mStage 02
Duck-dive & equalize
A clean head-first descent and the Frenzel that keeps your ears happy at depth.
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10 mStage 03
Streamline & glide
Weighting, finning and the relaxed free-fall that quietly saves your air.
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15 mStage 04
Hunt with control
Stalking, the shot, and a calm, controlled ascent — every single time.
From the Logbook
Latest Dispatches
Dry Training for Freediving: A 30-Minute Home Routine
Dry training for freediving is a 30-minute session on dry land: about 8 minutes of relaxed breathing, about 15 minutes of CO₂ work ending in...
Freediving Training for Spearfishing: The Complete Program
Freediving training for spearfishing is a program of short dry sessions, a few minutes of stretching and some pool time, built around one go...
Freshwater Spearfishing: Rules, Species and Technique
Freshwater spearfishing is the sport's overlooked branch — and its most legally complicated one: it's banned outright in some places...
Hole Hunting: Spearfishing Reef Holes and Ledges Safely
Hole hunting is how you find the fish everyone else swims over: the snapper backed into a ledge, the grouper holding in a cave mouth, the en...
Agachon, Aspetto and Agguato: Ambush Hunting Explained
Agachon, aspetto and agguato are the three names — French and Italian — for the oldest truth in spearfishing: you cannot chase down a fish, ...