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apollodorus
Apr 6, 2003, 12:36 AM
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Any takers? I once timed myself underwater for 49 seconds.
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flying_dutchman
Apr 6, 2003, 12:37 AM
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i use to be able to swim a lap underwater (25m)
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beercanclimber
Apr 6, 2003, 12:40 AM
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if i remember correctly like a min and ten seconds.
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keinangst
Apr 6, 2003, 12:53 AM
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Dead man's float, I've passed the 2:30 mark :shock:
Holding myself under with arms and legs flapping, maybe a little over a minute. Uses up all the oxygen! :oops:
( pull-ups, bench press....will the next thread be "How many beers can you drink in an hour?" :wink: :lol: )
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meataxe
Apr 6, 2003, 1:14 AM
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Hold breath: over 2min
Beers in an hour: ??? I'll try this tonight.
Faster beer (12oz): 5sec
Bench press: well over 50lb.!!!!
Greatest acheivement: watched 13 Ren & Stimpy episodes in one sitting.
Boy am I manly!!! :roll:
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rockclimber5
Apr 6, 2003, 2:13 AM
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about 1:40
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phitty
Apr 6, 2003, 2:25 AM
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2 min 20 seconds
24 beer in 9.5 hours
205 max on bench
and despite all this effort I still cant break into the 11's
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asaph
Apr 6, 2003, 2:29 AM
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I've hit 2 minutes just sitting there... substantially less flapping around
I know i've done one and a quarter laps with one breath..
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dovaka
Apr 6, 2003, 4:45 PM
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2:25 if im not moving
i dont drink beer but i could put away a bottle of vodka in a hour
and i can bench 240
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surforclimb
Apr 6, 2003, 4:50 PM
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held under for 3 waves in Costa Rica with no air. got the wind knocked out of me when i hit the bottom of the wave. in a pool little over 2 mins.
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neomagi
Apr 6, 2003, 4:53 PM
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about 2 mintues.
i don t bench.
i prefer Sifl & Olly to Ren & Stimpy.
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jughead
Apr 6, 2003, 5:06 PM
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2:35 :D just when I woke up i had sinusitus then an' all
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redpoint73
Apr 6, 2003, 5:28 PM
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How ever long it takes for the smell of my farts to dissipate.
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josephine
Apr 6, 2003, 6:09 PM
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I'm a Meditereanean fish...
once i could hold my breath for about 3:30[when i was in a swimming/diving team,before i started smoking],now about 2:50 but then there's no heart beating...ouch...
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beyond_gravity
Apr 6, 2003, 6:38 PM
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I've stayed underwater for at least 30 mins
I am better then you.
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raingod
Apr 6, 2003, 8:11 PM
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When I used to train for swimming I could do four laps and a little bit under water, I'm not sure how long it took as I couldn't see straight after. Now I'm not so sure but definately less.
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knuckles
Apr 6, 2003, 10:38 PM
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Trained freedivers can push themselves out to 5 min+, and there are a handful a freaks among them over 7minutes. Most of these guys limit dive time to half of that (or less) because of the danger involved with shallow water blackout. Please guys, if you are playing with this stuff, never do it underwater without a spotter... I lost a friend who drowned in a university pool during open swim workout hours... he was just training in the shallow end, people swimming right over him. Old freedivers and freediving spearfishermen are like old alpinists, they all have a bunch of dead friends. The problem (stated simply) is that the body has no real 'detector' for low oxygen, it only senses a buildup of CO2, and after a while you can learn to tolerate it. If you get distracted by something underwater, like a fish you want to shoot or a few more seconds on your watch that can be it, lights out.
If you're just sitting at your desk turning blue, enjoy your headache. :D
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cass
Apr 6, 2003, 11:14 PM
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heh...gotta to love these kinda topics
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xanx
Apr 6, 2003, 11:25 PM
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wow... that is intense... both the fact that people can hold their breath that long (and while moving i assume) and your experiences. i cannot fathom what it would be like to lose a close friend, and for something like that where he could easily have been saved...
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katydid
Apr 7, 2003, 11:03 AM
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Last I checked, I could hold my breath for almost an entire pitch, if I wasn't careful. :roll:
k.
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josephine
Apr 7, 2003, 11:13 AM
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In reply to: I've stayed underwater for at least 30 mins I am better then you.
:shock: and then what they find out that you were dead? :shock:
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ajkclay
Apr 7, 2003, 11:33 AM
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:oops: last time I checked 1.30, and I thought I could go longer :oops:
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bakedjake
Apr 7, 2003, 8:06 PM
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I used to be a professional smoker, I can just make 60 seconds.
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Breath: around 2:15
Beers per hour: I prefer Malt liquor
bench: I once tried to do like 200 and all I did was press myself against the bench really hard.
I too love sifl and ollie and I though I was alone in my adoration for the little sock-faced bastards!
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I can only manage about a minute. My uncle on the other hand used to free dive down to the guys wearing scuba gear 75 feet down. That used to freak them out. He was a fisherman up on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland in Oz. He used to target Coral Trout and he would shoot them with his spear gun.
He was telling me about how to nail these delectable fish. You would head down and spot a trout, you would then look away at something else and the trout being inquisitive would come over to check it out, bam, nail the trout every time. You just have to have the patience and the breath not to chase these guys otherwise they would hightail it outta there.
I was up on the reef a couple of years ago and snorkelling when I spotted a Barramundi Cod, yummm, I gotts get me one of those thought I. Down I go, Cod nowhere to be seen. That`s funny. After several drifts over this spot I worked out that he had a little hidey hole so I head down in about 25 feet of water to this trench amongst the coral and discovered his little cave. I nailed him, trouble is I also nailed the back of his cave. I had to end up leaving a great stainless spear down there with a Barramundi Cod impaled on it cos the skipper was anxious to get out and do some more bottom bashing fishing. Doh. Dinner that night was a dozen painted crayfish and lobsters, yummm. We wondered what the poor people were doing that night.
...Phil...
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