NSP:317 — 5 Spearos Learning to be Freediving Instructors in Amed, Bali | Matty and Liv, Noffs, Rhys (No Viz) and Chiz

**Liv** (0:01)
Everyone knows the golden rule of thumb is when you are travelling internationally with your spear gun, you always say it's fishing equipment. You don't use the G word in an airport.

**Noffs** (0:10)
They just looked me in the eye and said, do you have a spear gun in here? And I'm like, yep, I do.

**Liv** (0:16)
She puts the stuff that she's dabbed into the machine, and oh my goodness, it tested positive. Me and Matt and Noffs are all just looking at each other like, well, let's change things a bit.

**Chiz** (0:26)
Yeah, I can cruise and come on holidays and not really have to do too much. So that's what I'm going to talk about.

**Noffs** (0:31)
I think we're all going to learn how to do that. Sounds pretty good.

**Liv** (0:35)
First Ted Talk ever.

**Noffs** (0:36)
Yeah.

**Isaac 'Shrek' Daly** (0:39)
Welcome back to the Noob Spearo Podcast. My name is Shrek, and today we're off to Ahmed Barley to join Five Spiros Becoming Freediving Instructors.
So they are doing it with Adam Sellars from The Pressure Project, who runs annual freediving instructors courses over there. You're joining Chiz, Noffs, Liv and Matty, and Rhys from No Viz. All of these guys are in the Noob Spearo stable. Come in and assisting and hopefully teaching in the future spearfishing courses and retreats. There is a small caveat to these episodes. They're learning and sharing from their personal stories and journeys. Some of the information is a little bit inaccurate, but they're absolute legends, having a blast. So take it with a grain of salt and enjoy what they're learning, being a fly on the wall. Before we get into today's episode, I have got a couple of shout outs and one of them is tragic, to be fair and to be honest. There's no other way to frame it up.
Three really highly regarded Australian Spearo's have been taken by sharks in the past couple of months and gone way too soon is all I can really say. Like it's an absolute horror. It's rocked the Australian Spearfishing community to its core. And yeah, our thoughts and prayers are with their families and their friends.
Not something that I ever want to have to announce on the podcast and an absolute horror show to be honest. Like I said, I've had a bunch of messages and an email about making some more episodes about sharks and how we can go spearfishing with them and the state of what's going on with sharks and the heightened risk and so on. So look for that in the future. But yeah, definitely not a good time in the past few months. So yeah, bloody awful.
And other news and something in our household is I've been MIA from the podcast for a month or so and you might have realized that. The reason for that is Crystal, my wife and I and our four boys welcomed our first girl into the family. Grace Evelyn was born in early May. So we're excited to have her. The house is a bit chaotic, as you can imagine, but absolutely loving life and being a dad. I want to get into this episode. Massive thanks to the patrons, putting fuel in the Noob Spearo app or patreon.com/noobspearo. Join those legends there. Otherwise, let's get into this episode. Chiz, Noffs, Liv, Matty and Rhys. Here we go. Enjoy part one of their adventure.

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**Liv** (3:54)
Okay, guys, welcome back here to the Noob Spearo Podcast.

**Noffs** (3:58)
Here we are. We have a little bit of different sort of podcasts today. Shrek is not with us today. And we do have the better half of that's chat here.
Screw you, Tom. But anyway, yeah, so we're here for our level three, four instructors trip here in Amed in Bali.