Lessons From World's Best Freedivers with Chris Kim | Molchanovs Freediving

Molchanovs Freediving
Molchanovs Freediving
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Published 2020-03-25
Molchanovs CEO and Co-founder, Chris Kim (former tech lawyer for Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!) talks about some of the biggest freediving and life lessons he has learned from world class freedivers such as Goran Colak, William Trubridge, and Alexey Molchanov. This is a live recording of the webinar that was live on 25.03.2020.

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We are encouraged to stay at home. That doesn’t mean we can’t continue our freediving practice. Freediving is not merely happening in the water. There is so much we can practice from home that will improve our performance in the water. Let’s embrace this time of solitude to create new routines and ways of living. In the face of solitude, community carries on.

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The Molchanovs Mission is to share our love of freediving with the world. We do this by cultivating the level of knowledge and skill of all freedivers, by building global and local communities that fuel passion for freediving, and by developing gear that provides the best freediving experience possible.

Our inspiration, Natalia Molchanova, is one of the greatest and most decorated freedivers in history. She was a passionate educator and a role model to many in the freediving community. Molchanovs is firmly rooted in her philosophies and approach to freediving, and is continuously updated with the latest developments in education, technology, and scientific research. We are inspired and honored to have had Natalia as our inspiration. Without her, the Molchanovs Movement would not exist today.

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All Comments (8)
  • @haxificality
    imagine perfecting all of these principles.. reallt great advise.
  • @SumrSurf
    I really love this series of videos guys , there is many many approaches to diving. I love the different views and takeaways I get from every vid.
  • @jodecaesteker3971
    The training you talk about, especially the one with Goran, does not seem to be for beginners. Not at all. How do you even know you are doing a maximum static? I mean, as a beginner. I know all about the buddy system, but it's the breathholder who has to decide to stay or to come up right? How do you know you're just before the point of blacking out? As a beginner? Let alone do it 7 times in a row in one session? Seriously, I agree we don't know our limits, and that we can do more than we may think and it's way more mental than we might believe, but demanding 7 max attempts is not something you do to beginners. It's - at best - very intimidating and at worst it's more like demanding self torture. What are you trying to do, scare people away? It seems like it. Let me tell you about myself. I'm Aida 2 since 2015. And I'm still only that. I have not trained any further. Why? Because it was traumatic. It has broken something within me beyond repair. And it's exactly like the example of Goran and you seem to go over it way too lighyly. Simply put: it's scary and it's like torture to me. Because contractions always start extremely early. For example...As you know, Aida 2 requires a dive to -16m. I have never done any deeper dives and I never will. Here's why. On EVERY dive I did, (I did 4 in a row) contractions started around -8m. EVERY time. Mind you,... That's on my way DOWN, making the dives the most scary and torturing thing I can imagine by having contractions for 3 quarters of the time. And we're talking about a dive that most freedivers laugh at... Very shallow. (Well for me it's deep enough). You also have to know that my contractions do not only come very early, they are also very hard right from the start, and they get very frequent very fast. I don't know if you can imagine how hard and scary that is. Not to mention uncomfortable. Same goes for dynamic in the pool. No matter what I did, I have never made myself even only do a turn after 50m. Contractions start around 25-30m, 35 of I'm lucky and are -again: hard and frequent. It's always like that, no matter what I do. They are so hard in fact that I can not seem to stand more than 5 or so, sometimes even only 3. It feels like dieing and so my PB in DYN is still only 50m. I don't know your level but let me tell you that this first part about Goran is scary. Very scary. It reinforces my nausea I already had about freediving. It has the opposite effect of what you seem to be wanting to reach. But I don't care anymore freediving is not for me. I just can't do it. Yes, quitting lasts forever and boy, I'm glad it does! (And you're contradicting yourself: first you give an example of doing 7 max attempts which arguably the furthest away from enjoying yourself and then you have to enjoy yourself... I don't get it anymore.)
  • @zorancikotic6094
    Amazing video,except the part with Lance Armstrongs quote visible on screen.I mean the guy is biggest fraud,liar and doper in history of sport.You could just write something like "Pain is temporary,cause I use EPO-Lance Armstrong"...It would suit him better. There should not be a room for quotes of such a disgraced athlete used in video about beautiful sport like Freediving.