# @akimapnea on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcL2Yves5e3
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69273267-akimapnea-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T14:43:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Akim Adhari (@akimapnea) — https://gondola.cc/akimapnea

## Caption

What gets you to 40m won’t necessarily get you to 60m.

Lotta coming back from 64 meters after a process that was much more than simply “going deeper.”

At a certain point in freediving, effort is no longer enough.

You can reach 20, 30, sometimes 40 meters with average technique, good physical capacity and determination. But as the depth increases, small technical mistakes become bigger problems.

This is where I believe technical freediving really begins.

Your technique has to become aligned with the depth you want to reach.

And very often, the wall a freediver meets isn’t purely physical. It’s a combination of technique, mindset and old habits that have been repeated thousands of times.

That’s where the emotional part starts.

Because improving sometimes means accepting that what brought you this far may not bring you any further.

It requires humility to question what you already know.

With Lotta, we went back to the foundations:

Duck dive.
Finning technique.
Body position and orientation.
Turns.
Free fall.
Equalization.
Relaxation.
Mindset.
Visualization.

Changing muscle memory is probably one of the hardest things for an athlete.

You’re not learning something new on a blank page. You’re trying to replace movements your body already considers automatic.

That takes repetition.
Patience.
Trust.
And courage from the athlete.

We started with distance and dry training before taking those changes into depth.

Then we had six days together in the water.

The first three days were about rebuilding, correcting and repeating.

The next three were about allowing the new technique to express itself at depth.

The result: 64 meters.

But for me, the most important result isn’t the number.

It’s seeing an athlete accept change, rebuild her foundations and understand that searching for your limits sometimes means being willing to start again.

Depth exposes everything.

And the deeper you want to go, the less you can hide behind strength or determination.

Technique has to follow.

#freedivingtraining #freediving #apnea #spearfishing_reviews #spearfishing_international

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