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You are pretty lucky, Paul, that it's just a radio and not a TV interview. The biggest problem when communicating with Bulgarians, is the nodding and shaking of the head - it is inverted in Bulgaria, so when you nod to agree, it actually means strong disagreement, and vice versa. Although I've been to Bulgaria many times, I always had problems to get used to it. The biggest problem is that some Bulgarians try to invert it when they speak to you and know that you are a foreigner - so in fact you never know if they do it in their or in your way. And myself, I always block my neck just after few days in Bulgaria, because of the muscle fight - when I try to shake my head and the automatic reflex starts to nod (or vice versa).pkotik said:
I guess this stands behind many of the posts in this thread. I think the gap between "Famed magician to try an entertaining breath-hold stunt" and "famed magician to take on Sietas" is poetic license:jome said:
He is a performence artist. The media is a tool. Our attention is easly attracted to danger and challenges (and arguements and ethical dilemmas when we see them, such in this case for us freedivers). Mother evolution programmed us this way and this is also David's tool.
I agree. David will have his money/fame, we'll have our thrills and freediving got some spotlight time with very little being risked as negative publicity once David turned this into a circus show with chains and water leopards (there's still time).jome said:Anyway, even this thread is proving great entertainment, so obviously the stunt, already, is proving to be a success
Yes, I think everyone understood it, so I hope you won't mind if we poke some fun at Blaine toopkotik said:
Yes he is an excellent performance artist, but his art is not in achieving exceptional or record performances. What he is exceptional in is the art of marketing - selling whatever average stunt he chooses for a human limits breaking event.DeepThought said:
Ice is actually known as a good insulator - that's why Eskimos build igloos with it.
Jorg said:
Ft. Lauderdale is where Martin Stepanek currently lives. His old record was 8:06, and although I do not exclude he did more in training, I never heard such claim. In contrary the static apnea record holder Tom Sietas, already did several standard apneas over 9 and even over 10 minutes. The 10+ minute PB was set in training. His 9:24 static apnea in Vancouver on August 11, 2004 was not recognized as record, because shortly after surfacing he briefly touched his couch (or was touched by him?). However, Blaine's record should be compared to Tom Sieta's Guinness record of 15+ minutes that he did after breathing oxygen on a TV show, and definitely not to records made with surface atmospheric breath-up.MKDVR said:
