#39 – Mateusz Malina | Part Two

Chris McKay was Chief of Safety at the 2021 AIDA World Championships in Cyprus and runs Freedive Tulum in Mexico. In this episode we discuss: How was Chris' whole experience of the AIDA WC 2021 in Cyprus? Did the issue with Taiwan flag negatively affect the athletes? Chris is from Queensland in Australia. A start in freediving through spearfishing. Enjoying depth but not competing. Comparing freediving to climbing. Chris came from a safety and rescue training background, working in adventur...

8 Dec 20211h 21min

Tom Peled is a breath coach and freediving coach from Tel Aviv, Israel. Join us for this fascinating conversation on the power of the breath, working with trauma, helping athletes to their peak performance and much more. In this episode we discuss: Shout out to Madison and Alice Modolo Tom is from Tel Aviv, Israel He joined the Navy when he was 18 and eventually became a scuba instructor. Discussing the diving conditions off the coast of Israel. Did Tom get involved in the competitive scene...

17 Nov 20211h 19min

Julia Mouce, Freedive Cafe favourite returns for her fourth appearance! Julia is the owner of Apnea Bali freediving school on the island of Bali, Indonesia and one of the most highly regarded professional freediving coaches in the world. Today we focus on the art of instructing freediving, from the beginning level, to coaching athletes at the top of their game. In this episode we discuss: Discussing the AIDA World Championships in Cyprus. Advice for instructors: Don't talk too much! Alway...

28 Okt 20211h 14min

Fatima Korok is a World Champion freediver from Hungary. She first appeared on the show on Episode #110 and now returns to dig deep into her training methods with a special Training Talk episode. The Training Talk questions are: What is your favourite freediving discipline and why? Do you have a coach and who do you train with? Do you periodise your training through the year? What kind of dry training do you do? Do you have a dry EQ practice, if so, what kind of exercises? Can you handsfre...

11 Okt 20211h 15min

On today’s show we have another amazing girl joining us, you know the girls are really the ones leading the way in terms of exciting freediving these days, and Alice Modolo of France is no exception. This year at the famous Vertical Blue competition she achieved the first ever 100m dive for a french female athlete and topped that off with a CMAS world record in CWT bifins with a dive to 95m. Alice has had a long and interesting journey in freediving, at one point giving up the spo...

26 Sep 20211h 13min

Gary McGrath is and English competitive freediver. His first appearance was episode #109. This is a Training Talk episode. The Training Talk questions are: What is your favourite freediving discipline and why? Do you have a coach and who do you train with? Do you periodise your training through the year? What kind of dry training do you do? Do you have a dry EQ practice, if so, what kind of exercises? Describe your favourite pool training sessions, if you train in the pool...

30 Aug 20211h 13min

Claire Paris is a competitive freediver and professor in the Department of Ocean Sciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Her research is dedicated to biological oceanography and ocean conservation and we'll go into that in detail in the show. If you wanted to know how pelagic fish begin their lives or what the difference is between phytoplankton and zoo plankton and how important they both are to the health of the planet, you'll find th...

10 Aug 20211h 31min

Tom Ardavany first contributed to the Vertical Blue medical team in 2012 and has been part of the team many times since then. He has also been present as a medic at many other top-level freediving competitions including Blue Element in Dominica. Tom is an expert in the field, and brilliantly educates us on everything from lung squeeze and athlete monitoring protocols as well as the unforeseen and strange situations that have taken him by surprise over the years. In this episode we discuss: ...

13 Juli 20211h 6min