Molchanovs · Training
Training Session
Your own line time to keep building depth and skills between courses, with a freediving buddy.
Molchanovs · Training
Your own line time to keep building depth and skills between courses, with a freediving buddy.
Keep diving
Already certified to Wave 2 or similar? A training session gives you your own line time, no instructor, to keep building depth, refine your technique and stay comfortable in the water with a freediving buddy. We may ask you to do an intro coaching session first to refine your buddying and safety.
Freediving is a practice, not a qualification. What you learn on a course fades if you do not use it, and the fastest way to keep depth and comfort is simply to get in the water regularly with someone competent watching your dives.
All prices in IDR · Marine Park fee of IDR 100,000 applies to reef sessions.
What is a training session?
Freediving is a practice, not a qualification. What you learn on a course fades if you do not use it, and the fastest way to keep depth and comfort is simply to get in the water regularly with someone competent watching your dives.
A training session gives you exactly that and nothing more: a set-up line, a session in the water, and a freediving buddy. There is no instructor and no programme. You decide what you dive, you run your own safety with your buddy, and you take responsibility for your own dives, which is why it is open to freedivers already certified to Wave 2 or an equivalent.
If you are new to us, we may ask you to do an intro coaching session first. It is not a test to pass, it is so we have seen your buddying and safety before you rely on them in open water. After that, training sessions are the cheapest way to keep diving while you are on the island.
Message the freediving crew on WhatsApp to join a training session.
Before you join
Training sessions are self-led, so the bar is higher than for a course:
Why Gili Air
Consistency is the whole point of training, and consistency needs easy water. Here it is 27 to 30 degrees year-round, a 3mm suit is enough, and the sites are five to fifteen minutes out by boat, so a session costs you a morning rather than a day.
Visibility runs from about 10 metres in the wet season to 35 in the dry, and the sea is diveable all year, with April to October the calmest. It is why people end up staying for weeks and diving most days.
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.
Freedivers certified to Molchanovs Wave 2 or an equivalent from another agency. Bring your card. If you are certified below that, a coaching session is the right booking instead.
No, that is the difference. A training session is your own line time with a freediving buddy. If you want someone coaching your dives and reviewing your footage, book a coaching session.
No. Freediving is done with a buddy, always, and running safety for each other is not optional. If you arrive without one, tell us when you book and we will see who else is in the water that session.
Because self-led diving depends entirely on your buddying and safety being solid, and we would rather see them once than assume them. It is a short, practical check, not an exam, and it is a good use of a first session anyway.
Tell us what you have and what you need when you book. Plenty of freedivers at this level bring their own suit, mask and fins, and we will confirm what we can set you up with for the session.
As often as the sea and your ears allow, with rest between deep sessions. Depth responds to regularity far more than to individual big days, which is why people on longer stays book training sessions repeatedly rather than one heroic one.
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.
