#38 Alexey Molchanov: The GOAT in depth freediving (English version)

Special episode in English! French version to come soon (Version française à venir bientôt !)

Alexey Molchanov, the deepest man in the world (across all competition disciplines), started freediving at 17, with his mum, the famous Natalia Molchanova who brought a lot to the freediving world 💙

He was struggling to reach 30m due to sinus squeeze. Back in 2004, there were no tutorials on mouthfill. Just a few legends diving deep in the ocean and a teenager watching from the shore, still too young to compete.

A year later, he’s 18, at his first World Championship in Nice, hitting 85m thanks to a Japanese diver who explained mouthfill minutes before the dive. From that moment, equalization was never a problem again.

🫁 His biggest lesson? Don’t start with equalization techniques. Start by building awareness, strength and softness in your breathing muscles. Mouthfill is useless if your intercostals and diaphragm are stiff.

💡 Breathwork, mobility, and precision matter more than magic tricks : “50m is for anyone. 100m needs fitness. 130m needs excellence.”

🎯After 20 years at the top, he still loves the process. Still trains like a beginner. Still believes we can go deeper. World Records attempts are just curiosity and challenge…

📉 Stress? On a scale from 1 to 10, he’s at 2 before a deep dive. Because stress is just doubt. If you know you can do it — there’s nothing to fear.

Musique : Titre:  Kalon Auteur: Extenz Source: https://soundcloud.com/extenz Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.fr Téléchargement (5MB): https://auboutdufil.com/?id=526

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