Hello everyone,
I'm 19 years old and i come from Belgium.
As i'm new here i will explain why i joined
About a week ago i saw a Ted talk of David Blaine (on youtube) explaining how he held his breath for 17 min and i immediately became fascinated by the concept of freediving and decided i wanted to learn to hold my breath. For a long time.
I knew i could do it for about 3 minutes and in his video David Blaine said he would every morning do 1 minute of hyperventilating then 5.5 minute hold and repeating this over and over. So i did the same for 3 mornings (holding 3 minutes) repeating 4-5 times (breathing 5 minutes in 20 minutes). The third time i decided to hold longer because i didnt even get contractions at 3 minutes and i got to 5 minutes rather easily.
I started to search on the internet, to find better ways of training and more background information and noticed that most people advice against hyperventilating, also i found out about the O2 and CO2 tables, which i use now (without hyperventilation).
But i must admit I still have no idea what I am doing, partly because of the inconsistency of the information on the internet(concerning breath up, packing, hyperventilating, training,..).
For this reason i have decided i want to follow a freediving course, because I am really determined to become good at this, but I can't find any information on freediving in Belgium.
So if anyone here knows where i could find someone to teach me how to freedive (in Belgium), please let me know. General advice is also welcome
Thank you for reading (and replying to) this post, and sorry for my bad English.
Greets from Belgium!
I'm 19 years old and i come from Belgium.
As i'm new here i will explain why i joined
About a week ago i saw a Ted talk of David Blaine (on youtube) explaining how he held his breath for 17 min and i immediately became fascinated by the concept of freediving and decided i wanted to learn to hold my breath. For a long time.
I knew i could do it for about 3 minutes and in his video David Blaine said he would every morning do 1 minute of hyperventilating then 5.5 minute hold and repeating this over and over. So i did the same for 3 mornings (holding 3 minutes) repeating 4-5 times (breathing 5 minutes in 20 minutes). The third time i decided to hold longer because i didnt even get contractions at 3 minutes and i got to 5 minutes rather easily.
I started to search on the internet, to find better ways of training and more background information and noticed that most people advice against hyperventilating, also i found out about the O2 and CO2 tables, which i use now (without hyperventilation).
But i must admit I still have no idea what I am doing, partly because of the inconsistency of the information on the internet(concerning breath up, packing, hyperventilating, training,..).
For this reason i have decided i want to follow a freediving course, because I am really determined to become good at this
, but I can't find any information on freediving in Belgium.So if anyone here knows where i could find someone to teach me how to freedive (in Belgium), please let me know. General advice is also welcome
Thank you for reading (and replying to) this post, and sorry for my bad English.
Greets from Belgium!
