21/12/2023
Merry Christmas ya filthy a̶n̶i̶m̶a̶l̶s̶ freedivers! 🎄 🍾 🎉 🍻 😘
Sorry we haven't posted for a while.
What a crazy year we've had!
If you have a few minutes between last-minute present wrapping, pour yourself a mulled wine, and we'll tell you all about it...
Earlier this year, we had a baby, our little fish, Lochlan, who is now 8 months old.
Before Lochlan came along, we spent all our time developing our freediving experience and sharing everything we know to help you, our global audience, develop in the sport in a safe, effective and smart way.
Then everything changed…if you have kids, you’ll know how much they can rock your world! If you don’t, I’m sure you can imagine!
These past months, Lochlan stole most of our time and focus, and we didn’t put up much of a fight! It’s been our privilege as new parents to watch and help him grow.
The little time we had left was dedicated to coaching our squad of freediving athletes, who have been training and competing worldwide 🙌
Unfortunately, that meant we’ve been neglecting you, and we’re sorry for that.
It means a lot to us that you’ve subscribed to our newsletter, downloaded our App and followed us on social media, and we don’t like letting you down.
We’d like to get back to business as usual – providing you with training resources, programmes, and courses. But it may take a little while longer while we settle into our new life.
You see, that’s the other big breaking news of this year…we’ve been living apart for 4 months in separate countries! With Sarah and the baby in the U.K, and Nathan and our dog Lady in Canada.
Why did we have a baby and then live in two different countries?? Good question!
It’s been a challenge to say the least! One we had to overcome to set up the best possible future for our family.
Being from two separate countries (Sarah’s British, Nathan is Canadian) means neither is permitted to work in the other person’s country, or get access to emergency services, buy cars and houses etc – you know, all the big stuff you need to feel safe and secure, in order to develop a strong foundation on which to build a good life.
Up until this year, we moved countries every few months, and while we enjoyed lots of incredible diving and adventures, it became increasingly difficult to develop all the business plans we had in mind, and feel stable enough to support the family we wanted to have.
So we made the big decision to make the U.K our home base and buy a house there! That meant, Nathan had to go home to Canada and apply for a U.K working visa, while Sarah stayed in the U.K with the baby searching for houses, before finally buying our first home.
What do they say? Buying houses and having babies are some of the most stressful things you can do?! Well they’re not wrong.
As co-owners of Train Freediving, and our App: Apnea Fitness, we are a team and work together to develop and deliver all of our training resources and programmes.
Sadly, there’s no one to pick up the slack when we have our hands full with new babies and moving countries! We hope in the future this will change, and we will have a team of people to work on our behalf – that’s the dream, right?
But right now, it means we have to prioritise getting our life sorted so that we’re in the best position to get back to work and start giving you what you need – smart training that’s fun, where results are real and comfort is everything!
Thankfully, we are finally reunited in time for a white Christmas in snowy Canada before heading back to the U.K as a family in the new year to settle into our first proper home!
Thanks for sticking with us during this time.
We also want to give you a BIG bear hug for being loyal fans and customers over the years. If it wasn’t for you, buying our first home for our family wouldn't have been possible – and we can’t thank you enough!
We look forward to sharing our future plans and projects (we have some cool stuff coming up!) and hopefully meeting some of you in the water 2024 ! 🎉
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!
