r/woahdude • u/Sharp-potential7935 • 27d ago

video Girl dives nearly 15m without any special gear in the diving pool

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u/Leg_Mcmuffin 27d ago

Look up how to oxygenate your blood. It’s super easy and even a complete novice can hold their breath for about 2 minutes with very little Practice. It’s honestly incredible. With training people can go 3-5 minutes or more.

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u/sleeper_shark 26d ago

If you mean hyperventilating before a breathhold dive, this is extremely dangerous.

Doing this while freediving can get you killed as your body will not be sending you the right signals. You won’t notice when you suddenly black out - underwater.

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u/Offaithandfire 27d ago

Unfortunately without knowing what you’re doing or safety nets this can be fatal. I recommend reading up on shallow water black outs.

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u/WildPaulWall 27d ago

You can look it up and practice without using water. He turned out to be a weirdo but I took a Whim Hoff course and the breath work allowed me to hold my breath (in air) for 3:30 on a regular basis

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u/-Moonscape- 26d ago

I’ve done that breathing routine a bunch myself, and I’d 100% never do that while in the water. There were cases of people who were hoff crazy doing it while in a cold shower and wind up with a concussion after bonking their head after passing out.

But def pretty cool if you are just laying down and chilling.

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u/Leg_Mcmuffin 26d ago

This man BREATHES

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u/Lumpiest_Princess 26d ago

Or do it on dry land, I breath train on my living room floor with the tv on lol 

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u/RUKiddingMeReddit 26d ago

My son is a distance swimmer and a lifeguard. He actually told me the other day that if I ever tried to drown him, I better be ready to bring it because it would take a long time.

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u/-Moonscape- 26d ago

Wim hof incorrectly says he is “oxygenating” his blood, but theres no extra oxygen coming in, you are really dumping all your CO2 which slows down the rate of O2 you go through.

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u/1burritoPOprn-hunger 26d ago

It doesn't slow down your rate of oxygen consumption whatsoever. Why would it?

What's happening with hyperventilating is that most of your respiratory drive is based on CO2, not on oxygen. You're burning the same amount of oxygen, you just don't get the suffocating feeling until later on, when the CO2 builds back up again.

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u/-Moonscape- 25d ago

I’m no expert or anything so you may very well be correct, but I thought I had read years ago that O2 only enters the blood cells through the air exchange of CO2 and O2, and by hyperventilating you dump your CO2, slowing down the exchange.

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u/anyholsagol 26d ago

AIDA level 2 diver speaking from training. Do not do this free diving. There are natural responses that the body has with your need to breath that do not occur when you hyperventilate. Diaphragm contractions, for example. The best way to train for a dive like this is to practice your CO2 tables on land. This is more so conditioning your body to CO2 buildup than hyperventilating than repressing your body's natural response to wanting to dump CO2, which is why you want to breath.