The more you learn about freediving, the more you realise there is more to learn, different styles, equalisation techniques and ways of teaching. With this in mind, we visited Aharon Solomons in Israel’s most southern town Eilat, a unique desert city that merges seamlessly with the mesmerising Red Sea coastline. As a popular tourist destination, it offers an enticing blend of coral beaches, marine life, and water sports. The city’s Coral Beach Nature Reserve is famed for its vibrant underwater ecosystems, making Eilat a freediver’s paradise.
Aharon has a sensible and relatively unique take on depth adaptation, believing in slow and safe progression in freediving through two stages, RV1 where the freediver fully exhales all the air they can from their lungs (to residual volume) and then fills their mouth with air and pulls down the line until they can either no longer equalise or when they feel the slightest signs of discomfort and RV2, where the diver exhales all air from the lungs and mouth. Aharon has trained divers to reach depths of over a 100m with these techniques so we took some time to visit him and learn more.
During training we had the pleasure of watching Nadav Han a close friend and student of Aharons demonstration RV2 by pulling down the line to 17m as you can see in the video below.
Not only is Aharon a great freediving coach but he also has some great stories to enjoy over a beer.
If you are interested in coaching from Aharon then you can contact him via the details below:
Whatsapp: +972 527381684
Facebook: Aharon Solomons
E-mail: aharon.solomons@gmail.com