Category: Freediving
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Matthew Smyth talks about freediving, yoga and meditation
Matt Smyth of the Freediving center “Apneista” in Amed/Bali, explains what freediving, yoga and meditation have in common and how they can improve our lifes.
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Josh Hutcherson and The Rock freedive in new film Journey 2
The pair dive 100 feet down into the sea without the aid of a scuba tank as they search for Captain Nemo’s legendary submarine, Nautilus. Vanessa Hudgens also stars in the movie, doing underwater stunts that she wasn’t really comfortable with. Via mb.com “Shooting the underwater sequences was tough because I don’t do well in…
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Underwater breath-holding improves your intelligence ?
According to Dr. Win Wenger, author of 48 books including How To Increase Your Intelligence and The Einstein Factor, we can all gain 10 or more IQ points if we accumulate 20 hours of held-breath underwater swimming in doses of 20-180 seconds at a time over a 3 week period. Including better span of attention, better…
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East Bohemian freediving under the ice
I’m not totally sure where this is, but the video description says FEB Hrádek, and other videos by MrSmahy mention www.feb.cz, which is the East Bohemia Freediver club in the Czech Republic. Hrádek means ‘small fort’ in Czech, there is a map here on their site mentioning Hradec close to the center of the map.…
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Basic lung stretching for freediving (part 1)
Maria-Teresa Solomons demonstrating the Uddiyana Bandha exercise in the video below, an abdominal tonification and purging exercise used in yoga for hundreds of years, recently adopted by freedivers to improve the elimination of air from the lungs, enabling the ribcage to flex and compress more at extreme pressures at depth. Don’t know if pool swimmers…
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“Back to the cap” – freediving in Reunion Islands
Someone has been using the ‘Documentary’ Movie Trailer theme in iMovie. But it works, and that fish school is just amazing. “BACK TO THE CAP” – Freediving in Reunion Island from Farouck Moullan on Vimeo.
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Freediver Patrick Musimu
In June 2005, Patrick Musimu redefined human boundaries and became the first freediver to reach a depth below 200 meters (218 yards, 656 feet). Great pro-quality video here featuring him investigating the ancient freediving techniqe of the sponge fishermen on the island of Kalymnos in Greece, where they used a special (heavy) stone called a…
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Guillaume Néry exclusive Sportlife documentary
The Sportlife Saga is about three elements of nature; water, ice and snow. The story of the element water is told by Guillaume Néry, world champion in freediving. Via Vedrana Vidovic
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Jody Fisher freediving with dolphins
Really nice video here, featuring Jody Fisher, world champion in the freediving ‘Dynamic No Fins’ category from the 2011 AIDA World Indoor Championships in Lignano, Italy.