Freediving Education: Beginner to Expert

I discovered freediving by chance in Thailand and immediately fell in love with it. I’ve been teaching since 2014, with experience around the world, including three years at Deep Dive Dubai. What drives me the most is helping each freediver overcome their challenges, whether they’re beginners, looking to improve, or aspiring instructors. Specialized in equalization and personalized coaching, I guide you to gain confidence and enjoyment in the water.

My background
🔹 Instructor since 2014 (AIDA & PADI Instructor Trainer)
🔹 3 years as a senior instructor at Deep Dive Dubai (1500+ students)
🔹 5 national records achieved by my students
🔹 1 year teaching at Dahab Freedivers
🔹 Safety diver in 5 competitions in Dahab

🌊 Explore, improve, and dive in!
Gaspard GARRY-GENDRE

No, you don't have equalization issues !

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The students testify

Out of all the Freedivers I've discussed EQ with (including some self-proclaimed EQ experts) Gaspard Garry-Gendre is probably the only one that I believe truly understands the big-picture of EQ. In my diving, he changed the way I approached my EQ getting rid of my mouthfill failure at 65-70m, and helping me EQ (ridiculously easily) to 90m with basically zero effort. His approach also changed the way I teach it, which so far has been a success.. In my coaching-cases partly solving: squeeze issues, contractions on the descent, early turns, and trachea pressure)
Nathan Vinski
Nathan VinskiFreediving Coach & Athlete
Gaspard introduced me to freediving from scratch and I couldn't have wished for a better coach! He is very patient, kind, and attentive and he really has a gift for teaching and explaining things. He's very attentive to details and really helped me with improving my technique. I could see huuuge progress after literally every session. And also very important thing in learning something new - Gaspard has a great sense of humor and I had lots of fun diving with him. Definitely recommend!
Oksana Kunikevych
Oksana KunikevychAIDA 1 & 2 student
I came to Gaspard for help teaching equalization and its clear to me that he has thought long and deeply about how to teach freediving. His advice really resonated with me and I am really impressed by his ability to think about teaching holistically at a high level rather than rigidly or by the book. The assistance he gave me was invaluable and I highly recommend him to any new instructors looking to further their professional development with coaching from an instructor trainer.
John Prins
John PrinsFreediving Instructor
Gaspard is a fantastic teacher, very patient and kind while also having a keen eye for detail. I would definitely recommend him to anyone thinking about taking the course
Katherine Jones
Katherine JonesAIDA 2 student
Gaspard’s attention to detail in the way he teaches equalisation is excellent, his techniques helped me to a new personal best of 74m CWT so would definitely recommend his course for advanced equalisation.
David Mellor
David MellorFreediving instructor & Athlete
Gaspard is a relaxed teacher with a very intuitive way of teaching. Very flexible in terms of time so you can go in your own pace. He incorporates previous knowledge so every session is very customizedl! If you want a personalized taylor-made experience while learning how to freedive, Gaspard is your man.
Jonas De Lorenzo
Jonas De LorenzoAIDA 1 & 2 student
I enjoyed being coached by Gaspard preparing for dahab championship. He is very organized knows what he is doing and diving with him is so much fun.
Abdelrhman Talat
Abdelrhman TalatAthlete
I managed to book a spot with Instructor Gaspard, we already met in Dahab and in the pool I had one of my best session ever, he understood I was in a not-so-good moment due to no training and other elements, so he managed to make me train in a suuuuper relaxed way, he managed to let me do the whole session almost without contractions and when we finished the session we did enjoy the pool in a more funny way visiting the site! Water temp with their wetsuit is super, wasn’t feeling hot or cold and I managed to dive without any weight so it was pure FREEdiving. Beautiful experience and thanks again to DeepDive and especially to Gaspard who is a true talent and dedicated in understanding and teaching!
Johnny Dalla Libera
Johnny Dalla LiberaStudent
Gaspard is a lovely AIDA II instructor and I learnt a great deal from him. I absolutely loved DDD, the atmosphere, facilities and experience was amazing! I would highly recommend!
Harkiran Kaur Rana
Harkiran Kaur RanaAIDA 2 Student
Have been training for Freediving in the pool since May - managed to complete AIDA 3 from zero! All thanks to Gaspard - best trainer possible: attentive approach, teaching you the right training philosophy, prioritising technics and joy!
Mila Matviets
Mila MatvietsStudent