The Freedive Cafe Podcast

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 Discover Your Depths , a unique teaching and personal growth philosophy based on yoga, meditation, freediving and mind-body awareness. Sara has been practising Kundalini Yoga since 2003, and attributes her phenomenal success in breath...

Adam Stern is an Australian freediving athlete, Australian champion and 8 x Australian freediving record holder.  He also teaches freediving for all levels from absolute beginner all the way up to instructor and competitor levels. This is an interview from the PLUS archives, recorded in May 2019. For all episodes of The Freedive Cafe Podcast, information about freediving courses, coaching, worksho...

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 set national records in 5 of the 6 freediving disciplines. He is a freediving instructor with AIDA, SSI and PADI. He’s and AIDA judge and was voted safety diver of the year in 2010 and 2011. He has been a freediv...

Julia Mouce is an instructor for SSI, AIDA, Apnea Total and PADI as well as an Instructor Trainer for Apnea Total and PADI, she is an accomplished competition freediver herself, holding records for Argentina in CWT and CNF. She is also the owner of a very well-known school in Bali, Apnea Bali and another school, Freedive Air, on Gili Air, just off the Lombok coast. Julia is especially well known f...

Donny is currently based in Xiao Liuqiu, Taiwan. Donny is from Scotland and has lived in the Netherlands, Finland, Australia and Thailand among other places. An early exposure to freediving through the Big Blue movie and a long time waiting for the right time to start. Viktor Reshetniak was Donny's first freediving instructor and he did AIDA4 at Freediving Planet with Jean Pol Francois in The...

In this episode we discuss: Jani is from Lima, Peru Jani got interested in freediving through a scuba accident! He did his first course with William Trubridge and became an instructor under Jonathan Sunnex. Work as a medic at competitions and burgeoning interest LMC and Blackout. Developing the freediving scene in Peru. Jani is a neurosurgeon. Jani is a member of the AIDA medical committee and dir...

William Trubridge is a world champion and multiple world record holder. He currently holds the huge 102m CNF record which may just be the most impressive thing a human being has ever done on one breath! He is the owner of Vertical Blue freediving school and organiser of the Vertical Blue competition which many of you will know as the ultimate venue of freediving competition in the world. Will firs...

Today on the show we have the inimitable Aharon Solomons. Aharon is a legend in the freediving community, known for his forward thinking attitude towards training, his irreverent sense of humour and general passionate dedication to our beloved sport for decades. Aharon first appeared on Episodes 15 and 16 of the show. If you want to hear Aharon's fascinating backstory and an introduction to h...

Bill Streever , a biologist, is the award winning and bestselling nature writer behind In Oceans Deep, Cold, Heat, and And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind. He has worked on issues ranging from the environmental effects of underwater sound to the evolution of cave crayfish to the restoration of tundra wetlands to climate change. With his wife, marine biologist Lisanne Aerts, he lives aboard the cruisin...

#39 – Mateusz Malina – Part Two For all episodes of The Freedive Cafe Podcast, information about freediving courses, coaching, workshops and retreats in Dahab, Egypt, visit www.truedepthfreediving.com To support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/freedivecafe

Dean Chaouche began his relationship with the ocean at a very young age on the beaches of the Gower just off Swansea, Wales. He began surfing at a young age and from that I developed a strong desire to travel and surf all over the world. On his travels he decided to take a surf trip to Indonesia, while looking for a yoga school to practice, he stumbled across “Freedive Gili & Yoga” run by UK r...

Nays Baghai is an independent film maker and underwater cameraman based in Sydney, Australia. Nays became fascinated with the worlds of film and diving when he saw The Blue Planet at age seven, and has gone on to win over 20 awards for his short films across various international festivals. His first feature film, Descent, is a psychological documentary about ice freediver Kiki Bosch, and won the...

Yoram Zekri | Ocean Prana Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com Use the discount code 1234567890 to get 10% off any orders from BESTDIVE! Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Photo Credit: Smartshot Yoram Zekri is today's guest. With more than 30 years experience in the freediving life, mor...

Pascal Berger Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Photo Credit: Robert Strix Pascal Berger was born and bred in Switzerland on a diet of cheese and chocolate. He grew to bec...

Martin Štěpánek PLUS Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Martin Stepanek is originally from The Czech Republic. He is a multi-world record holder, holding 13 of them, and a...

Marcin Baranowski Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Marcin Baranowski is a Professor of Physiology at the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland. His research focuses on...

Linda Paganelli Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Linda Paganelli is originally from Rimini, Italy and is now based on the Canary Islands. She was an early pioneer on the...

Adam Sellars Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Adam Sellars has been on what could be described as a spiritual journey these past 5 years that has culminated in the collid...

Samo Jeranko Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Samo Jeranko is from Slovenia. He is a freediving vice-world champion with more than a decade in the elite-level freediving...

Mateusz Malina #2 Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSIONFREEDIVING.COMUSE DISCOUNT CODE FREEDIVECAFE Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Mateusz Malina started diving in late 2008, but already knew that it would become his destiny seven years earlier after...

Sheena McNally Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 20% OFF ALL ONLINE COURSES AT IMMERSION FREEDIVING Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options  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 o...

Federico Mana Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 10% OFF ( and FREE shipping inside Australia)! Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Federico Mana originally wanted to become a professional basketball player but his fragile ankles prevented that from happening! He encountered freediving by ch...

Federico Mana Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 10% OFF ( and FREE shipping inside Australia)! Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Federico Mana originally wanted to become a professional basketball player but his fragile ankles prevented that from happening! He encountered freediving by ch...

Kirk Krack Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 10% OFF ( and FREE shipping inside Australia)! Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Kirk Krack is pioneer in the freediving world, and has been on a quest to make the sport as safe as possible for over two decades. In 1996, he was working as a Tri...

Ted Harty #2 Use the discount code FREEDIVE CAFE to get 10% off any orders from octopusfreediving.com 10% OFF ( and FREE shipping inside Australia)! Subscribe to PodcastApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options Ted Harty first appeared on the show on Episode #60.He is the founder of Immersion Freediving and www.freedivingsafety.com.  He started his underwater career as...