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While we are waiting to be in the water again, doesn’t mean that you have to put your passion on hold. So, we came up with a great idea… hold on.
At the moment we are in Portugal and unfortunately surfing is not allowed like in many other European countries, for all the people in Holland that can still surf, bless you!
Most of you have done a Surf Apnea Workshop with us. And a few of you are still waiting for the next upcoming Surf Apnea workshop or for the Surf Apnea Fit Week.
With neither the Surf Apnea Workshop nor with the Surf APNEA FIT WEEK, we are not sure when they will can take place. But taking a step backwards on your passion for surfing is not the way we are and we like to keep on progressing.
For that reason, we will launch a podcast with our own WORLD RECORD HOLDER FREEDIVING Nanja van den Broek. As most of you know, as a surfer you can learn a lot from freediving.
Being held down underwater by the waves can be a challenge. Practicing holding your breath underwater is a skill. Especially when you feel some fear, it costs you energy but most of it all, it will cost you your BREATH.
I’m working quite a while with Nanja and I believe she is an amazing athlete.
Besides the fact that she can tell you the ins and outs of breath holding and how to stay relaxed underwater, Nanja had put a World Record Freediving being a mom of two kids at the age of 39, training in a small swimming pool not deeper than 2 meters.
In October 2015 Nanja put her World Record in Freediving in Variable Weight Discipline where she used a sled to go down and swim up after reaching a depth of 130 metres comparable with a building of 43 storages high. This record is still not broken by anyone else yet.
Once I told her that I was waiting to practice my new skills in the water with bigger and stronger waves then in Holland. She explained to me what the brain can still do even if you are not in your best practicing environment and how she was able to train for a World Record in a bath not deeper than 2 meters. The pressure in the lunges down the ocean at 130 meters is completely different than at 2 meter. Lunges literally shrink to the size of a little orange down there. Nanja was able to simulate the brain to let her body believe she was 130 meters down under.
Time for an interview with Nanja.
I want to invite you to drop a question to Nanja. So the interview can became as interesting as it can get and to help you with your personal question on breath hold.
If you have any questions to Nanja about your breathing techniques, underwater, with surfing, why the Wim Hof Method is not a good method for underwater, how she was able to set a World Record, how she handles fear or anything else. Let us know here and we will unfold it in this podcast.
In the mean while, you can watch this TEDtalk of Nanja and maybe more questions will arise. Drop your question before the 1st of May 2020.
THE BODY ACHIEVES WHAT THE MIND BELIEVES.
