Your own instructor
A Molchanovs instructor for the session, watching only you.
Molchanovs · Coaching
Coaching Session
One-to-one coaching, for newcomers and experienced freedivers refining technique.
Molchanovs · Coaching
One-to-one coaching, for newcomers and experienced freedivers refining technique.
Just you and the coach
A one-to-one session focused entirely on your freediving. Whether you are finding your feet or chasing a new personal best, we build the session around your goals and dive with you, one on one.
A course has a syllabus to get through. A coaching session has only you. You say what you want out of the day, whether that is a first comfortable duck dive, a relaxation that does not fall apart at depth, an equalisation that keeps working past 20 metres, or a technique fault you already know about and cannot see, and the whole session is built around it.
All prices in IDR · Marine Park fee of IDR 100,000 applies to reef sessions.
What is a coaching session?
A course has a syllabus to get through. A coaching session has only you. You say what you want out of the day, whether that is a first comfortable duck dive, a relaxation that does not fall apart at depth, an equalisation that keeps working past 20 metres, or a technique fault you already know about and cannot see, and the whole session is built around it.
That makes it the fastest way to move when something specific is stuck. Most freedivers plateau on one thing rather than everything, and a plateau is much easier to break with someone watching every dive from the surface and reviewing the footage with you afterwards.
It works just as well at the other end. If you have never freedived and would rather not join a group, a coaching session is a private, unhurried introduction with an instructor who is looking only at you.
The shape is always the same; what fills it is yours to choose.
A conversation before the water: what you want, where you are now, what you have already tried, and what the conditions allow that day.
Time on the line or in the pool with your coach on every dive, adjusting between attempts rather than saving the feedback for the end.
A debrief with your GoPro footage, because seeing your own dive explains more in two minutes than a description does in twenty, and a plan for what to practise next.
Message the freediving crew on WhatsApp to book a one-to-one coaching session.
Everything you need is included, so you can focus on the diving.
A Molchanovs instructor for the session, watching only you.
Technique, relaxation, equalisation or depth. You choose the focus.
Wetsuit, long fins, mask and line equipment.
GoPro footage of your dives, reviewed with your coach and yours to keep.
Good to know
Coaching sessions are open at any level. To join you need to:
Why Gili Air
Coaching only works when the sea is not the main problem. Here the water sits at 27 to 30 degrees all year, a 3mm suit is plenty, and the sites are five to fifteen minutes out by boat, so a session is a session rather than a logistics exercise.
Visibility runs from around 10 metres in the wet season to 35 in the dry, and the dry season, April to October, brings the calmest sea. On a day like that there is nothing left to blame but technique, which is exactly what you came for.
Ocean-obsessed, and patient with it.
Real, personalised attention at every step.
Warm, calm, clear water on your doorstep.
Safe and supportive: become a family member.
No. Coaching sessions are open to any level, including people who have never freedived. If you already hold a certification, bring the card so your coach knows where to start.
Whatever is holding you back: breathing and relaxation, equalisation, duck dives and finning technique, free fall, safety and buddying, or simply getting comfortable at a depth that currently feels like a lot. Say what you want when you book and the session is built around it.
A coaching session comes with an instructor whose entire job that day is you. A training session is your own line time with a buddy and no instructor, for freedivers already certified to Wave 2 or similar. Coaching is for learning something; training is for repeating it.
It depends what you are fixing. One session is often enough to diagnose a problem and give you something concrete to practise. Freedivers working on a technique like mouthfill or on a real depth jump usually book a few across their stay, and a Deep Week is the version of that with seven days of it.
That is the most common way they are used. Wave 1 and Wave 2 give you the syllabus, and a coaching session afterwards is where the technique gets personal, with all the attention on your dives rather than shared across a group.
There is almost always something useful to do. A rough sea turns a line session into pool work on static, dynamic and technique, or dry work on equalisation and breathing, and we move the line session when the sea settles.
The Gili Matra Marine Park fee of IDR 100,000 per person applies to reef sessions. It is a one-off, valid around 30 days, and paid to the park rather than to us.