This is the revolutionary Training System exclusively created and used by our instructors for all of our courses.

D.R.O.P stands for "Diving Reflex Osmotic Performance", the principle behind the training system that our instructors have used to create multiple World Champions and to train each and every one of our students. The Diving Reflex is a set of physiological changes and adaptations that all mammals, most notably dolphins, whales, seals and penguins but also human beings, exhibit when put under apnea diving conditions. It is this diving reflex that allows world champions to survive the extreme dives they perform as well as the animals mentioned above to reach depths in excess of 2000 meters/6560 feet and dive times over 2 hours! And remember, they have lungs just like us and hold their breaths when they dive. Based on that premise, Instructor Trainer Rudi Castineyra developed a training method whose main goal was to "awaken" these aquatic capabilities possessed by all human beings and to refine them to the highest level. At the same time, convinced that freediving should be treated as a high-performance sport with very specific physical conditioning demands, Rudi designed a set of exercises and training routines that would maximize the muscular development and performance capabilities required exclusively for freediving. This is the core of the D.R.O.P system, which is very similar to the cellular exchange process of Osmosis. The enhancement of the diving reflex response is like the main membrane that surrounds the cell, and the specialized physical training is the nucleus inside that membrane that allows it to work properly. This combination provides the fastest, safest and most effective way of maximizing freediving performance. The system has been constantly improved through many years of research and thousands of dives and its effectiveness is best proven by the 4 world champions that have set 15 world records using D.R.O.P, as well as the hundreds of satisfied students we have around the world.