David Blaine is an illusionist and a showman with a worldwide reputation. And in 2014, after 4 months of training on a special system, he set a world record for holding breath under water: 17 minutes 4 seconds. It's worth saying that Blaine demonstrated more difficult "tricks". He was buried alive, he "levitated", disappeared, burned, etc. And there are enough documentaries about him already. Personally, I was never a big fan of him, but after this video, I became really interested in his performances. His tricks cannot be called just "street magic". In a very personal speech at the TEDMED conference, he talks about what he went through in order to set a world record and hold the breath under the water for 17 minutes (only three minutes shorter than the performance!), As well as that for him it means his work on the verge of life and death.
If you are interested, I also recommend seeing a video about how David Blaine "barfs frogs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPE928xUKL4
Questions:
1. Have you ever heard about David Blaine or this stunt?
2. What's your opinion on pushing the limits of the human body?
3. What's your personal record for holding the breath?
If you are interested, I also recommend seeing a video about how David Blaine "barfs frogs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPE928xUKL4
Questions:
1. Have you ever heard about David Blaine or this stunt?
2. What's your opinion on pushing the limits of the human body?
3. What's your personal record for holding the breath?
Comments
In my opinion it's great that people push their limits not only when it comes to holding breath but generally human body limits.
Actually I have never tested myself in holding breath but I think it would be just a few seconds.
I think if you training and improve your body then you will overcome standards how to did David Blaine.
My personal record is 1min ....
But, anyway, he's very focused, calm and hardworking individual. Not a big fan of magic but a huge fan of David Blaine's magic, because it feels like true one :)
I think that pushing the limits of the human body is a great idea as long as it doesn't have bad impact on health. Usually specialists may research interesting things when some people do things that noone has ever done before. For example when someone is diving very deep, researcher may discover something related to the blood system and find new cure for a disease.
I think I can hold a breath for a minute but I've never practiced it in my life.
Yes, I heard about him. Very popular magician and showman. Earlier, I believed that this is what magic, special forces, but now I think that he simply uses some tricks that are inconspicuous to an ordinary person, one who does not engage in tricks. Nevertheless, I like to look at his performances because I still can not understand the peculiarity of his tricks. I've never dealt with this type of record, although I think it's worth a try.
I can't say, that this is a human's body push limits that we were witnessed of. It is just an amazing focus, nothing more. It is not even a world record,just nice show to watch.
My record is about 2 minutes under the water.
People are doing unimaginable things with their body. Look at gymnastics. It's amazing.
My personal record for holding the breath? It's about 1.5 minutes.
To be honest, I have never measured for how long I can hold my breath. I think it might be between 1,5-2 minutes.
It's nice he's trying to push limits of human body. There are still a lot of things about it we don't know, so if he wishes to be guinea pig - that's fine for me.
I've never measured how long I can hold my breath but I'd guess it's about 1-2 minutes.
For an answer on the last question - I don't what my breath-holding record was in minutes, but I know how long it was in metres, as I used to swim the olympic pool (50m length) at Warszawianka on one breath.
The longest I've been holding my breath is around 1 minute when I was diving underwater without any equipment.
I think that if someone pushes the limits of his own body intentionally it's fine and people like this was always intrigued me because they can show us that the biggest obstacle is our closed mind.
My personal record for holding the breath is about 1min40sec.
As a child I was swimming a lot, and I believe it was maybe 2-4 minutes? Something like that.
2.I think that pushing the limits of human body is inseparably connected either with passion or with research, sometimes with both. That’s really interesting to observe people doing with their bodies things which we would never think of as possible to human being. This kind of stunts shows how flexible and adaptable human body actually is.
3.I have never measured the accurate time for which I can hold my breath but I think it was something around 1 minute.
2. What's mine opinion on pushing the limits of the human body? Okay. Go right ahead. I personally don't need to do this.
3. What's mine personal record for holding the breath? I have no idea :D
My personal record under the water is i think about 2 mins.
2. Pushing the limits of our body it's, in my opinion, ordinary thing for us. We know that our bodies are responsive to many factors so why we shouldn't test our endurance like it is described in talk.
3. I never measured the time I can hold my breath. I think it wouldn't be long (less than a minute or something).
It is first time I hear about this guy.
2. What's your opinion on pushing the limits of the human body?
I really love it. It is always about pushing the limits to achieve something. Guy still lives so he is doing it right.
3. What's your personal record for holding the breath?
I think no more than one minute when I was diving and doing underwater movies.
Surely it is a good think to push the limits of our bodies. It requires a lot of preparations and trainings, which also helps our minds. However, I believe that at some point pushing the limit is becoming unhealthy. Situation of holding breath for so long just simply have to damage the brain somehow. Of course it is only my opinion and I'm not even a specialist in this matter. That is why I admire David even more, cause after the breaking the record he allowed medics to gather as many data as they could just to help science investigate human organism behaviour in critical conditions.
It is something around 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
My record is 2 minutes 53 seconds. I am proud of it. Especially that now I can only do it for around 1.5 ;/
Curiosity is followed by ambition, ambition is followed by madness - there is nothing wrong in exploring humans body limits as long as we dont cross the line to madness. What would be madness ? For example artificial implants to our body.
Before i started smoking i could hold breath for 3 minutes underwater. It always fascinated me how low is our control over our bodies.
2. I am strictly for pushing the limits of the human’s body. Of course, nobody can be allowed to force other people to do so. It must be integral decision for everybody of its own. As for me, I like doing things, which look impossible in the beginning. The perfect example is jogging, where I push my limits systematically. I started from 10 km distance I made during sport event organized in my city 5 years ago - without earlier preparation. Since then I’ve taken part in many running events, I also started do regular trainings. My limit at the moment is half-marathon distance, which I made several times. Now I dream about making marathons in reasonable time.
3. I haven’t tried to practice this. This is a kind of pushing limits activity not tempting me at all, unfortunately. It can be useful, for example while swimming, but I don’t like such feeling such discomfort of existence. Not for me, definitely.