Podcasts by The Freedive Cafe Podcast
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#126 | Petar Klovar | Croatian Phenom from 2022-02-04T23:00
Petar Klovar is a World Record breaking Croatian competitive freediver. In the 2022 CMAS World Championships he dived an incredible 92m in CNF (Constant Weight No Fins).
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#125 | Ted Harty | The Art of Instruction from 2022-01-25T21:00
On today's show we have a Freedive Cafe favourite returning to the show. Founder of Immersion Freediving and the Freedive Live Podcast, Ted Harty came back and we had a conversation sharing...
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#124 | Maria-Teresa Solomons | Soul Medicine from 2022-01-18T01:00
MT Solomons is a link to the early days of deep freediving before the modern competition era, along with her partner at the time Aharon Solomons they were there in the time of Pipin and Audrey, ...
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#123 | Vitomir Mari?i? | Training Talk from 2022-01-06T23:00
World Record Holder Vitomir Mari?i? returns to The Freedive Cafe to answer the legendary Training Talk questions!
We also discuss his experiences with nitrogen narcosis and decom...
#122 | James Nestor | Breath from 2021-12-31T00:00
Originally aired on Thrivers Podcast exactly one year ago, in this fascinating interview we discuss James Nestor's latest book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art.
James Nestor o...
#121 | Chris McKay | Safety Angel from 2021-12-08T01:00
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 experien...
#120 | Tom Peled | The Power of the Breath from 2021-11-17T02:00
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 ...
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#119 | Julia Mouce | Instructing&Coaching from 2021-10-28T01:00
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 re...
#118 | Fatima Korok | Training Talk from 2021-10-10T20:00
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 Tal...
#117 | Alice Modolo | Discover Yourself from 2021-09-26T18:00
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 excep...
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#116 | Gary McGrath | Training Talk from 2021-08-30T01:00
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 favouri...
#115 | Claire Paris | Freediving for Science from 2021-08-10T00:00
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 dedic...
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#114 | Tom Ardavany | Inside the Medical Team from 2021-07-13T04:00
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 freedivi...
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#113 | Louisa Collyns | Inside the Safety Team from 2021-07-11T21:00
Episode #111 | Nathan Vinski | Train Freediving from 2021-06-18T00:00
Nathan Vinski is an up and coming Canadian competitive freediver and freediving coach.
Nathan's specialist skill is 'being a struggling freediver' and knowing how to appl...
Episode #110 | Fatima Korok | Transformation from 2021-06-06T22:00
Fatima Korok is from Hungary. Fatima has been on a special journey through freediving, not just quickly rising to become the first Hungarian freediver to become a World Champion, but overcoming ...
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Episode #109 | Gary McGrath | Breakthrough from 2021-06-01T23:00
Gary McGrath is an English diver who recently surpassed the 100m mark in depth. He joins me from Dahab, Egypt, to discuss his freediving progression.
In this episode we discuss:
Episode #108 | Sheena McNally | Hitting the Hectometre from 2021-04-12T00:00
Although Sheena McNally hails from a part of Canada over 1,000 km from the ocean, she has always loved being in the water. Growing up, she spent summers on the lake and winters in the poo...
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Episode #107 | Daan Verhoeven | Freediving Photography from 2021-03-29T21:00
Daan Verhoeven is best know for his amazing photography of freedivers. He hails from the Netherlands and now lives in Cornwall, UK. He started freediving in 2005. Between 2006 and 2011 he...
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Episode #106 - Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez | Freediving in Antiquity from 2021-03-19T01:00
Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez is an archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of ancient Greece, the study of pottery technology, geographic Information Systems and maritime archaeology. H...
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Episode #105 - Gus Kreivenas | Training Talk from 2021-02-17T20:00
Gus Kreivenas is a 100+m diver originally from Lithuania and over the last decade has been developing himself into an elite freediver, focusing on awareness, sensitivity and focus to bring himse...
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Episode #104 - Sara Campbell | Discover Your Depths from 2021-02-06T17:00
Sara Campbell is a bit of a legend in the freediving community.
She is a Kundalini Yoga teacher, and four times World Record-holding freediver. She is the founder of