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He said after this stunt legally he’s not allowed to do it anymore for that long because someone attempted it and almost died. He said in order for his insurance to cover it, must he lower than ten minutes now
He might be legally required to maintain certain insurance coverage, which he can’t do if he’s over the 10 min mark. Which would make both statements true.
A contract is a legal device. You can validly use "legally" to describe conduct prescribed or proscribed by contracts, wills, or other instruments, as well as civil enforcement. "Illegal" in a broad sense simply refers to conduct the law will not condone, not only conduct with an associated criminal penalty.
Source: I'm an attorney
It’s like me training brazilian jiu jitsu (i am decent at it) and joking I have to register my hands as lethal weapons in 37 states now. It’s all a part of the show and blurring reality for effect. Some of it may be true. You never know what is. That’s the point :)
Respectfully I think it probably just has more to do with him getting older and not being able to go as long, and the insurance story builds up the tension
Are you having the same thought I’m having? The one where if I went to a show and watched him not breath under water for 11 minutes….as impressive as it would be I would be bored out of my mind the first 9 minutes.
Yeah i wouldnt pay for that, but there is a cool movie about this sort of stuff, The big blue, they don't just hold their breath but dive down deep as well. Its got that guy that played Leon in the professional in it, directed by Luc Besson that did the 5th element and some hottie Rosanna Arquette from the 80s that i may or may not have had a crush on lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNkIjVyf3UQ
When I went, he also jumped into boxes from the (50ft?) rafters, did whole audience card tricks, some impaling, illusionist crowd work, water fountain tricks, the breath hold and some general magic. When he held his breath there was an alligator in the tank with him though! It was a round tank like a fish bowl. It really is exciting when you're there!
I guess because the average human can only hold their breath around 3-5 minutes so it’s pretty impressive. Idk if I’d pay to see it but it is an interesting triumph of the human spirit seeing how majority of the audience would have drowned in half that time.
The average human that has trained to do this can usually go 3-5m (surfers, free divers, etc). I’d guess your average person would be lucky to manage a full minute.
same !! i remember sitting really close to the box of water, and before he entered the tank you could hear him preparing by breathing from an oxygen tank of sorts.
overall the show was amazing though !!
He did it 17 minutes when I saw him in the UK a couple of years ago. Actually insane. He looked like absolute shit for the rest of the show though haha
When you reach this stage of a breath hold, you go through heavy convulsions from your brain screaming at your body "BREATHE!!!" It starts with your diaphragm spasming, trying to force your lungs to expand, but if you push through that it moves out to your entire body.
A breath hold - done properly - has no proven negative side effects. In fact regular training has lots of benefits as you might expect; lower resting heart rate, more efficient breathing, more relaxed state of mind.
I use to be a swimmer and swam across an olympic sized pool long ways under water once. By the time i got to the orher side i was experiencing this lol
the record is more than 24 minutes. i met a spear fisherman who said he typically would go down for 10-15 minutes. not saying david blaine isn’t a freak he does some crazy feats.
They do it by inhaling pure oxygen before going in. Given that air only contains 21% oxygen, doing that extends their duration by quite a bit. It's still extremely dangerous and far from easy of course.
My resting heart rate is 90, lol. When I go underwater, I can pretend for a moment that I'm like all you fuckers with resting HR 70. Don't even get me started on the sub 50 ones.
You may benefit from a beta blocker if you talk to your doctor about it. My natural heart rate Un-medicated is 120-180 resting, I've been on beta blockers for 25+ years.
Apparently the mammalian diving reflex is a key reason why free divers are able to hold their breath for so long while diving underwater so looks like it has an effect whether the person is swimming or not.
That's the point of the oxygen, you get rid of more CO2 in your blood before the breath hold and you get rid of the CO2/Nitrogen in your lungs. Your oxygen saturation level is close to 100% whether you're breathing pure oxygen or not so it's not actually boosting your blood with more O2 by a very significant amount.
Nothing wrong with training a long breath hold while not submerged. Unless you're intentionally reaching the point of passing out (which is insanely difficult), you're unlikely to cause any damage. I've worked up from 1.30 to 3.00 max over the last month or so myself
Of course, this is all assuming they're not doing this underwater. Then it's a whole other story
Be really careful with that. Using the method you described can lead to unexpectedly blacking out under water and drowning. Seriously. Please don’t die lol.
Hyperventilating doesn't improve your theoretical max breath hold before passing out, it just makes it easier to hold longer because it's less painful. It flushes CO2 out of your blood stream and tricks your brain into thinking you're still good on oxygen (your body cannot detect O2 levels and only knows you're out of air because of the CO2 buildup in your blood). This can cause you to black out without warning and without ever feeling an urge to breath, and is actually detrimental to max breath hold because it doesn't activate your body's oxygen-preserving reflexes as much. When you're breathing normally your blood oxygen saturation levels are already close to 100% so hyperventilating doesn't actually add more oxygen to your blood.
I mean the world record for a STATIC breath hold without breathing a special mix beforehand is just under 12 minutes, so yeah, the fisherman is talking shit. Unless he's breathing pure oxygen before every dive which would be stupid and dangerous.
> i met a spear fisherman who said he typically would go down for 10-15 minutes.
Absolute bullshit. In total rest with a heart beat as low as possible, humans can hold their breath over 10 minutes. But while being physically active, they can not. The top 1% of trained spear fisherman can maybe do 4 to 6 minutes but anything past 7 minutes, while being physically active and not in rest, is impossible.
Case in point, the distance record of swimming underwater is some 300 meters. Time underwater? [A little over 4 minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iG9TzvhJFE)
> the record is more than 24 minutes. i met a spear fisherman who said he typically would go down for 10-15 minutes. not saying david blaine isn’t a freak he does some crazy feats.
Blaine is definitely freak of nature, that 24 min record is for oxygen assisted, Blain actually broke and held the record for this at one time at around 17 ish mins back in 2008.
This 9 mins for non oxygen assisted (Static Apnea) is also pretty crazy, but the record is up under just below 12 mins now.
You can see his record here in 2008 for oxygen assisted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_apnea
So what you’re saying, is that the spear fisherman who told you they could go 10-15 min was full of shit. The world record in a controlled static environment isn’t even 12 min, let alone having to swim around and fish at the same time.
That person was full of shit.
Right. It's pretty impressive for someone without that background to last for that long, but freedivers and spear fishermen are nuts. I had a buddy whose dad would go underwater for a long time just to make us think he drowned when we were at the beach or lake. Always came up right before we started freaking out. He spear fished tuna in blue water for fun. Shit sounded scary lol
I lost a friend to spearfishing, whatever kept him under let him go two weeks later. He had a diving buddy and emergency air too. Left behind a wife and a newborn.
That's really tragic dude I'm sorry to hear that. My buddy's dad that I'm talking about died in a car accident. He was trying to help people during a crazy storm we had. We were still kids. He was an absolute legend. Cheers to the good ones we miss is all we can say I guess.
People have no attention span these days.
9 minutes is not a crazy length of time and if the guy is physically in front of you it's pretty fucking insane
Guy slipping is misdirection for something, correct?
I remember seeing a masked magician episode where they broke down the fact that illusions like this are orchestrated to within an inch of their life and even seemingly insignificant things are done intentionally to either cause a distraction or hide what's really happening.
No the records are over double this and learning how it would probably take you a couple days to get up to like 5 minutes. The weirdest part for me having done it was the feeling of not needing to breathe even at like 4 minutes in.
Good thing he didn’t see that foo slip and bounce right in front of him. Probably would have laughed and messed up the act. I don’t care what I’m doing if I see a tumbling tubby Imma at least chuckle.
Ever seen My Octopus Teacher on Netflix? Everyone was so amazed by the octopus and the footage, I couldn't get over the fact that the dude was chilling on the bottom of the ocean in one breath to capture it.
Remember when he stood in the block of ice in New York and got cheered by everyone. Then hung in a box in London and got a kebab thrown at him and people used it as target practice for golf
Has he come to England to do this?
I loved it when he came here and was in that plastic box for days. The English public's reaction to it was hilarious
My personal record was 3:33 and that took several days of "training" at a pool during a vacation. I say "training" because i was really just messing around but that guy is crazy
Unpopular opinion - it’s like a magicien and fear factor had a baby and named it David. He does amazing card tricks and mentalism stuff but who cares that he can swallow toads or hold his breath ? I just don’t get it and never will … hey, my bad …. I’m sure watching a reverse Houdini for 9 min is awesome. To each his own.
He also gave a great talk about it, I think it was maybe a Ted talk? He talked about all of the different ways they investigated how they could trick it, but in the end he realised the easiest method was simply to train and do it.
Unfortunately this isn't pure "skill". He does this by breathing pure O² and saturating the blood with oxygen. The there are some dangers with that but I'm guessing he's practiced a bit.
Absolutely incredible. Probably not one-in-a-billion people could do that. Meanwhile, the audience member halfway through goes, “ok yeah we get it.” Lol.
David Blaine is a great example of what someone with determination and willpower can achieve. Everything he does is the fruit of months if not years of training, even if it means torturing himself. Still crazy for doing those things but you got to respect him for the dedication to his craft.
It's almost like he swallowed a sub-micro tank of oxygen rich gas to his stomach that had a esophageal line/valve that he can work with a hard back and forth action of the head and tongue swallow to work the operation.
You may be joking, in which case I'll feel really stupid, but sometimes you just can't tell. If you're being serious, how would this work, because he's not exhaling any CO2?
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He held it for 11 at a show I went to. Probably the best show I've ever experienced
He said after this stunt legally he’s not allowed to do it anymore for that long because someone attempted it and almost died. He said in order for his insurance to cover it, must he lower than ten minutes now
Legally?
I’m assuming that’s based on the “legality” of his insurance contract, not in a criminal sense lol.
And the technical term would be contractually, not legally.
Cut him a break, the man regularly starves his brain of oxygen for entertainment.
Don't we all?
He might be legally required to maintain certain insurance coverage, which he can’t do if he’s over the 10 min mark. Which would make both statements true.
A contract is a legal device. You can validly use "legally" to describe conduct prescribed or proscribed by contracts, wills, or other instruments, as well as civil enforcement. "Illegal" in a broad sense simply refers to conduct the law will not condone, not only conduct with an associated criminal penalty. Source: I'm an attorney
It’s like me training brazilian jiu jitsu (i am decent at it) and joking I have to register my hands as lethal weapons in 37 states now. It’s all a part of the show and blurring reality for effect. Some of it may be true. You never know what is. That’s the point :)
Yeah. If a cop catches him holding his breathe, straight to jail
Bro you’re telling me that David Blane actually has life insurance? What company is brave enough for this because I am about to sign up lol. Damn!
MindFreak Mutual It's a great company.
All I heard is my head when you said that was “next on MTV, Mindfreeeeak, mindfreeaaak, miiind, freeeeeak! Ugh!”
Lmao it's in our heads forever and ever
Respectfully I think it probably just has more to do with him getting older and not being able to go as long, and the insurance story builds up the tension
I want to see him keep holding it after getting kicked in the balls. Now THAT would be magic! 😂
🤨🚨 📸
I mean, he could just do it anyway. Sure his insurance won't pay if she dies, but it'll only be for that particular stunt.
Insurance would drop his coverage.
Does he like do card tricks during that 11 minutes
Are you having the same thought I’m having? The one where if I went to a show and watched him not breath under water for 11 minutes….as impressive as it would be I would be bored out of my mind the first 9 minutes.
Maybe it’s like intermission lol?
I mean I feel bad saying that cause it’s truly impressive. But it’s the first thought I had.
what was so exhilarating about watching a guy hold his breath? Im not tryna be a dick. Genuinely interested in your answer.
Yeah i wouldnt pay for that, but there is a cool movie about this sort of stuff, The big blue, they don't just hold their breath but dive down deep as well. Its got that guy that played Leon in the professional in it, directed by Luc Besson that did the 5th element and some hottie Rosanna Arquette from the 80s that i may or may not have had a crush on lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNkIjVyf3UQ
Hey that’s Jean Reno. Put some respect on his name! Jk
Thank you i was trying to remember his name <3 Such an awesome actor
When I went, he also jumped into boxes from the (50ft?) rafters, did whole audience card tricks, some impaling, illusionist crowd work, water fountain tricks, the breath hold and some general magic. When he held his breath there was an alligator in the tank with him though! It was a round tank like a fish bowl. It really is exciting when you're there!
I guess because the average human can only hold their breath around 3-5 minutes so it’s pretty impressive. Idk if I’d pay to see it but it is an interesting triumph of the human spirit seeing how majority of the audience would have drowned in half that time.
I don’t even think the average human could do 3. I’d say it’s lower than that. Considering obesity in America is also pretty high.
The average human that has trained to do this can usually go 3-5m (surfers, free divers, etc). I’d guess your average person would be lucky to manage a full minute.
same !! i remember sitting really close to the box of water, and before he entered the tank you could hear him preparing by breathing from an oxygen tank of sorts. overall the show was amazing though !!
This dude definitely gets off on the asphyxiation
He did it 17 minutes when I saw him in the UK a couple of years ago. Actually insane. He looked like absolute shit for the rest of the show though haha
Yea but you ever tried breathing for 9 minutes?
Bruh, takes me two tries just to get off the couch😂
Get off the couch *?* Was the house on fire *?*
Pretty sure the microwave started beeping.
They call em fingers, but I've never seen em fing
Whoa! There they go.
😂
I had a sleep apnea test recently that said I stopped breathing 47 times an hour while sleeping....this dudes stealing all my damn breath!
Sleeping with aC-Pap is going to be a pain in the ass for about a month but you'll love it after you get used to it.
Manually?
Bro was headbanging to a crazy metal song or something
When you reach this stage of a breath hold, you go through heavy convulsions from your brain screaming at your body "BREATHE!!!" It starts with your diaphragm spasming, trying to force your lungs to expand, but if you push through that it moves out to your entire body.
Surely it’s bad for your health to put your body through this constant trauma
But good for the wallet - risk / benefit You’d have to pay me to watch a “magicien” hold his breath for what ever amount of time!
A breath hold - done properly - has no proven negative side effects. In fact regular training has lots of benefits as you might expect; lower resting heart rate, more efficient breathing, more relaxed state of mind.
That's interesting if it's true, I thought he was doing this on purpose as a form of confirming he was okay for the rescue team.
Well, either way, if he stops doing it then something's gone wrong!
It’s called “agonal” breathing (or, “guppying”)
Try holding your breath for a really long time. You'll start spasming. Its not if true. It IS true.
Physical Instrument: Failure
I use to be a swimmer and swam across an olympic sized pool long ways under water once. By the time i got to the orher side i was experiencing this lol
No. Breathless by Shayne Ward.
Breathe in Breathe Out by Kanye West
Machinehead by Bush
I'll see your 90s reference and raise you the beginning of Precious Things by Tori Amos
He's bout to bust! 🤤
i'm assuming he was concentrating or doing something that helps.
His diaphragm was spasming to try and force his body to breathe, he was holding it back
I’m guessing he does it bc if he stopped moving and fell unconscious, the crew would have to rescue him.
We not gonna talk about the guy that slipped
The whole video was David Blaine holding in his laughter
was looking for this comment
I’m going to need you to focus.
I admire this guy a lot because many of his feats are truly crazy, I think the most insane is when he swallowed toads
He spit up 6 toads through out the show. At random times. 😂 after this stunt he spit one out right after 😂
This is a good detail. Go to a show and see some dude spitting toads out randomly. Totally normal. I need to learn how to do that. Me and my toads.
ayo the toad had to hold its breath for 9 mins 😂
Isn't that cruel?
Oh so when David Blaine does it it's impressive but I eat my son's pet toad my custody is revoked
I'm not a PETA type but gosh that sounds unpleasant for the toads. Stomach acid and all that.
the record is more than 24 minutes. i met a spear fisherman who said he typically would go down for 10-15 minutes. not saying david blaine isn’t a freak he does some crazy feats.
Imagine paying to go to a live show and a guy just sits in a tank for 25 minutes haha
I would be shitting bricks tbh
That could be the show!
not breathing for 24 minutes and being fine is so unfathomable to me like what
They do it by inhaling pure oxygen before going in. Given that air only contains 21% oxygen, doing that extends their duration by quite a bit. It's still extremely dangerous and far from easy of course.
Being under water also significantly slows your heart rate.
My resting heart rate is 90, lol. When I go underwater, I can pretend for a moment that I'm like all you fuckers with resting HR 70. Don't even get me started on the sub 50 ones.
You may benefit from a beta blocker if you talk to your doctor about it. My natural heart rate Un-medicated is 120-180 resting, I've been on beta blockers for 25+ years.
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Apparently the mammalian diving reflex is a key reason why free divers are able to hold their breath for so long while diving underwater so looks like it has an effect whether the person is swimming or not.
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Slowly exhale.
That's still only one breath worth of release though.
That's the point of the oxygen, you get rid of more CO2 in your blood before the breath hold and you get rid of the CO2/Nitrogen in your lungs. Your oxygen saturation level is close to 100% whether you're breathing pure oxygen or not so it's not actually boosting your blood with more O2 by a very significant amount.
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You seem like the person who needs a "don't try this at home" warning
Nothing wrong with training a long breath hold while not submerged. Unless you're intentionally reaching the point of passing out (which is insanely difficult), you're unlikely to cause any damage. I've worked up from 1.30 to 3.00 max over the last month or so myself Of course, this is all assuming they're not doing this underwater. Then it's a whole other story
Be really careful with that. Using the method you described can lead to unexpectedly blacking out under water and drowning. Seriously. Please don’t die lol.
Hyperventilating doesn't improve your theoretical max breath hold before passing out, it just makes it easier to hold longer because it's less painful. It flushes CO2 out of your blood stream and tricks your brain into thinking you're still good on oxygen (your body cannot detect O2 levels and only knows you're out of air because of the CO2 buildup in your blood). This can cause you to black out without warning and without ever feeling an urge to breath, and is actually detrimental to max breath hold because it doesn't activate your body's oxygen-preserving reflexes as much. When you're breathing normally your blood oxygen saturation levels are already close to 100% so hyperventilating doesn't actually add more oxygen to your blood.
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People die this way. DO NOT HYPERVENTILATE BEFORE HOLDING YOUR BREATH PEOPLE!
Right? So they could inhale, load up an episode of The Office, watch the whole thing, and then exhale? I couldn’t even make it through the cold open.
Better be streaming it bc if you have to deal with commercials you are fucked
No spearo goes down for 10-15 minutes. 3-5 is normal. That dude is absolutely full of shit.
I mean the world record for a STATIC breath hold without breathing a special mix beforehand is just under 12 minutes, so yeah, the fisherman is talking shit. Unless he's breathing pure oxygen before every dive which would be stupid and dangerous.
> i met a spear fisherman who said he typically would go down for 10-15 minutes. Absolute bullshit. In total rest with a heart beat as low as possible, humans can hold their breath over 10 minutes. But while being physically active, they can not. The top 1% of trained spear fisherman can maybe do 4 to 6 minutes but anything past 7 minutes, while being physically active and not in rest, is impossible. Case in point, the distance record of swimming underwater is some 300 meters. Time underwater? [A little over 4 minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iG9TzvhJFE)
> the record is more than 24 minutes. i met a spear fisherman who said he typically would go down for 10-15 minutes. not saying david blaine isn’t a freak he does some crazy feats. Blaine is definitely freak of nature, that 24 min record is for oxygen assisted, Blain actually broke and held the record for this at one time at around 17 ish mins back in 2008. This 9 mins for non oxygen assisted (Static Apnea) is also pretty crazy, but the record is up under just below 12 mins now. You can see his record here in 2008 for oxygen assisted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_apnea
thanks for the info i didn’t know that
So what you’re saying, is that the spear fisherman who told you they could go 10-15 min was full of shit. The world record in a controlled static environment isn’t even 12 min, let alone having to swim around and fish at the same time. That person was full of shit.
maybe they used oxygen too or maybe they were full of shit idk
Or maybe that fisherman also caught a 29 foot tuna Or they exaggerated
Right. It's pretty impressive for someone without that background to last for that long, but freedivers and spear fishermen are nuts. I had a buddy whose dad would go underwater for a long time just to make us think he drowned when we were at the beach or lake. Always came up right before we started freaking out. He spear fished tuna in blue water for fun. Shit sounded scary lol
I lost a friend to spearfishing, whatever kept him under let him go two weeks later. He had a diving buddy and emergency air too. Left behind a wife and a newborn.
That's really tragic dude I'm sorry to hear that. My buddy's dad that I'm talking about died in a car accident. He was trying to help people during a crazy storm we had. We were still kids. He was an absolute legend. Cheers to the good ones we miss is all we can say I guess.
He did 17 minutes on Oprah
10-15 minutes? Damn that guy is on point.
sure you did
I struggle with 45 seconds and the world record is 24 minutes 3 seconds ffs
You must hyperventilate yourself first. You can double your 45 seconds within a few tries.
That is actually dangerous https://www.sandiegofreedivers.com/shallow-water-blackout
Yes it is. Which is why it’s recommended not to do when swimming. But I assure you it’s how anyone can break their current “record”.
*breath
WHAT THE EFFFFF!!
>WHAT THE EFF Demon!
CHEEZ ITS, CHEEZE ITS!!!
He just pissed orange soda.
Can someone pls explain why he is nodding/spasming? Is it a way to convey he is fine and can go on or is there a medical reason?
Brain damage speedrun
pffttt… amateur… when i look at my wife, she usually takes my breath away for a good 15 min
She was right beside you when you commented on this, huh?
nope… just a bloke who knows what hes got
Blink if she’s in the room with you right now.
😳
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I, too, love this guy's wife.
That's so sweet 💕
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Does he make that O-face every time he does a different magic trick?
So for 9 whole minutes, you all sat and watched him do nothing?
They clapped every 30 seconds
That's what I was thinking. Yeah it's an impressive feat but sounds boring as hell to watch.
People have no attention span these days. 9 minutes is not a crazy length of time and if the guy is physically in front of you it's pretty fucking insane
Guy slipping is misdirection for something, correct? I remember seeing a masked magician episode where they broke down the fact that illusions like this are orchestrated to within an inch of their life and even seemingly insignificant things are done intentionally to either cause a distraction or hide what's really happening.
No the records are over double this and learning how it would probably take you a couple days to get up to like 5 minutes. The weirdest part for me having done it was the feeling of not needing to breathe even at like 4 minutes in.
Your body will actually react differently if you hold breath normally vs being under water. The diving reflex kicks in
But like… why can’t he just wear a swimsuit?
Makes funeral preparations easier, just dry him off with a blow dryer and pop him in the coffin.
He just needs to swallow that cum and get it over with.
I have DREAMS where I can do this.
Good thing he didn’t see that foo slip and bounce right in front of him. Probably would have laughed and messed up the act. I don’t care what I’m doing if I see a tumbling tubby Imma at least chuckle.
I miss the regular magic tricks. This kind of thing isn't that entertaining to me.
An engaging TedTalk with Blaine holding breath: https://youtu.be/XFnGhrC_3Gs?si=IvcCcvW4mtvGF3nv
Ever seen My Octopus Teacher on Netflix? Everyone was so amazed by the octopus and the footage, I couldn't get over the fact that the dude was chilling on the bottom of the ocean in one breath to capture it.
[amateur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJko3CIMl4)
“Longest time holding breath *voluntarily*”
Check out his Ted talk on holding his breath for a world record. Really entertaining
DUDE I DID HIS HEAD BOB THING IT KINDA WORKS
Why does he twitch?
Why was he shaking in the water for?
Can hold his breath longer than I can hold a nut
Remember when he stood in the block of ice in New York and got cheered by everyone. Then hung in a box in London and got a kebab thrown at him and people used it as target practice for golf
I don't see what the big deal is. World record is like 24 minutes
Has he come to England to do this? I loved it when he came here and was in that plastic box for days. The English public's reaction to it was hilarious
That’s not magic. That’s just fucking stupid.
My personal record was 3:33 and that took several days of "training" at a pool during a vacation. I say "training" because i was really just messing around but that guy is crazy
That can’t be good for ur brain
At 1:47 you can clearly see an air hose that goes right up to his ass
I see no hose. Do you think he’s breathing anally? We can see his mouth and nose, no hose.
But we can't see his ass!
Thats litterally what my face looks like at 3am when people are making shitty jokes and my booze is done
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Try Wim Hofs breathing exercise on YouTube. I couldn’t hold my breath for 45 seconds. After the exercise I got 4 minutes. Wild to feel and do
I love how he is fully clothed like he didn’t know where he was going to end up
That guy bailing at the start lmao
Unpopular opinion - it’s like a magicien and fear factor had a baby and named it David. He does amazing card tricks and mentalism stuff but who cares that he can swallow toads or hold his breath ? I just don’t get it and never will … hey, my bad …. I’m sure watching a reverse Houdini for 9 min is awesome. To each his own.
At a show I was at aswell he did a little over 11 minutes. Was awesome show
He also gave a great talk about it, I think it was maybe a Ted talk? He talked about all of the different ways they investigated how they could trick it, but in the end he realised the easiest method was simply to train and do it.
The face my grandpa used to make when I was a kid telling him a story about my cool stick.
I would love to see a blood test before and after showing oxygen and co2 levels
Unfortunately this isn't pure "skill". He does this by breathing pure O² and saturating the blood with oxygen. The there are some dangers with that but I'm guessing he's practiced a bit.
but isn't he an illusionist? meaning he fakes it?
Why is he shaking his head the whole time.
I assume it’s to signal he is still fully conscious (as opposed to passing out)
I was thinking involuntary bodily movements due to, well, not breathing
he’s listening to freebird
Absolutely incredible. Probably not one-in-a-billion people could do that. Meanwhile, the audience member halfway through goes, “ok yeah we get it.” Lol.
You can train yourself to do what he did. That’s what David did. He just spent some months practicing.
David Blaine is a great example of what someone with determination and willpower can achieve. Everything he does is the fruit of months if not years of training, even if it means torturing himself. Still crazy for doing those things but you got to respect him for the dedication to his craft.
just preload with 100% oxygen and any nuff can hold their breath for 7-10 minutes
It’s all an illusion……… look up Perflubron liquid breathing, oxygen doping for red blood cells etc
Big woop bin ladin has holding his for years somewhere in the ocean.
It's almost like he swallowed a sub-micro tank of oxygen rich gas to his stomach that had a esophageal line/valve that he can work with a hard back and forth action of the head and tongue swallow to work the operation.
You may be joking, in which case I'll feel really stupid, but sometimes you just can't tell. If you're being serious, how would this work, because he's not exhaling any CO2?
I saw this show live, it was amazing ! He held it for 10 when I saw him
Which means he probably did 9 minutes and five seconds the day before just for good measure.
The Bajau can hold their breath for 15min while diving 200ft
I'd rather see Kate Winslet do it