He is the 20 x world record holder, he is the reason we question humanities abilities and he holds his breath for eight and a half minutes. He is the Freediving World Champion, he is Alexey Molchanov and you should listen to this episode. 

THE DIRT

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• Alexey’s breathing abilities - 8.5 minute breath hold, yes.

• ‘The Machine’

• What Alexey and Julia’s outlook is about pool freediving vs depth

• Alexi's freediving journey - where did this ‘Machine’ come from and how he broke a record at age 17 during his first freediving competition

• Mammalian - what? Alexey and Julia talk about our set of evolutionary adaptations which allow us to stay underwater for extended periods of time; diving reflex

• Paul is baffled by the bodily triggers in Freediving that make us pee - honestly though, he can’t let it go.

• Alexy's diving origins continued…

• Alexey shares some of his shark diving and conservation stories on one breath

• Paul continues to be baffled…

• You won’t believe it but you have to hear it; the dirt on how Alexey can dive down to 130m and hold his breath for 8.5 minutes

• Alexey and Julia run through how a freediving competition works and the mind games and mental competition that takes play behind the scenes…

• Alexey, how do you hold your breath the way you do? I mean, come on.

• The dirt on the stigma behind freediving and safety

• Getting in depth with Alexey and Julia about the dangers of freediving as a sport

• Paul lost a friend to a shallow water blackout - what are shallow water blackouts

• How many world records does Alexey have - you won’t believe it.

• Japanese women can hold their breath while diving for peals…

• Alexey’s mental dive preparation and what he’s not thinking about 130m below

• Ice tails - Alexey tells all about his 80m free dive under the ice

• Alexye’s next ‘big thing’

• How Julia approaches freediving

• Alexey's freediving community

• ‘Freediving is not about fighting the urgre to breathe, it's about relaxation’

• The importance of a good freedive instructor

• Alexy's mum's influence on the freediving sport

• Alexy's freediving school

• Find Alexey

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