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  • dunlop
    FFR Player
    • Apr 2006
    • 469

    #1

    David Blain XD

    So tonight at 8 he is going to try and hold his breath for 9 min. while underwater. I guess he also decided to make things interesting, and is also planning on putting handcuffs and chains on his body.

    Should be pretty interesting to see.

    Anyone else going to watch?
    Last edited by dunlop; 05-8-2006, 12:56 PM.
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  • Tasselfoot
    Retired BOSS
    FFR Simfile Author
    • Jul 2003
    • 25185

    #2
    Re: David Blain XD

    I wanted to go and point at him in the bubble... but Whorli refused.

    PS - Blaine.

    PPS - WR is currently 8:58, although the freedivers are all pissed off about this, because they don't allow their people to breathe pure oxygen beforehand (which apparently Blaine has been doing for this whole week?). So it should be much much easier for him to do it... which is not to say holding ones breath for 9 minutes is easy. I'd be happy to hold mine for 1 minute.
    RIP

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    • Grandiagod
      FFR Player
      • Jul 2004
      • 6122

      #3
      Re: David Blain XD

      He said he wasn't going to crap for the whole entire time. Now that's talent.
      He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny

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      • Tasselfoot
        Retired BOSS
        FFR Simfile Author
        • Jul 2003
        • 25185

        #4
        Re: David Blain XD

        Ehh... I don't think it would be that hard. I generally crap every 3-4 days... and that is eating normal food. I THINK he isn't eating at all, only drinking. So that makes it pretty simple.
        RIP

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        • Grandiagod
          FFR Player
          • Jul 2004
          • 6122

          #5
          Re: David Blain XD

          I crap about once every two days. (PS this has the potential for a great discussion)
          He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny

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          • blitzmage
            Banned
            • Sep 2003
            • 506

            #6
            Re: David Blain XD

            First a 'Twat in a box' Now 'A Twat in a goldfish bowl'
            I think the audience should go the way the UK did.

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            • SethSquall
              FFR Player
              • Mar 2004
              • 5477

              #7
              Re: David Blain XD

              I think this would be alot more interesting with flesh eating sea bass. Im just bored of seeing him put himself in these situations.
              Originally posted by Tibs
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              • JurseyRider734
                lil j the bad b-word
                • Aug 2003
                • 7506

                #8
                Re: David Blain XD

                My parents and my friend saw him on Saturday when we went to the NYC ballet. We wanted to walk up to him and say "HEY LOOK...WE CAN EAT/BREATHE (outside of water)" but the line was too long. It's pretty cool, though. We got really close...I have a movie of it on my cellphone.
                Originally posted by Arch0wl
                I'd better be considering I own roughly six textbooks on logic and have taken courses involving its extensive use

                Originally posted by Afrobean
                Originally Posted by JurseyRider734
                the fact that you're resorting to threatening physical violence says a lot anyway.
                Just that you're a piece of shit who can't see reason and instead deserves a fucking beating.

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                • super-smashman
                  FFR Player
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 2638

                  #9
                  Re: David Blain XD

                  David Blaine is cool.

                  My record for holding my breath was 1:49. And I did hyperventilate beforehand.

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                  • Mindfields
                    Banned
                    • Dec 2004
                    • 1566

                    #10
                    Re: David Blain XD

                    Can we get an expert of sorts to look at this through a medical perspective for us? We can't. So I'll just use my common knowledge to evaluate this.
                    When you breath in oxygen, your alveoli (sacks in your lungs) feed the oxygen into your bloodstream, and the oxygen goes to the brain. Then the brain is happy.

                    Now, when you DON'T breathe in oxygen, the brain goes psycho, your body shoots tranquilizers at it, it falls asleep, you start breathing in water instead of oxygen and strangle and stuff.

                    Putting it bluntly, holding your breath for 9 minutes is just seeing who can preserve enough oxygen in their bloodstream the longest. Really all you have to do is stay as still as you can, right?

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                    • emccky
                      Banned
                      • Apr 2004
                      • 4811

                      #11
                      Re: David Blain XD

                      I'm a swimmer and my lungs are very well developed.. I've held my breath for 3:58.. 9 minutes is ****ing insane. I want to see it

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                      • Tasselfoot
                        Retired BOSS
                        FFR Simfile Author
                        • Jul 2003
                        • 25185

                        #12
                        Re: David Blain XD

                        navy SEAL req's are 5 minutes, I believe... aka, to become a SEAL, you must be able to hold your breath for 5 minutes. Although I am far from certain on this fact.

                        This is on ABC at 8, right?
                        RIP

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                        • Twilight_Overlord
                          FFR Player
                          • Sep 2005
                          • 317

                          #13
                          Re: David Blain XD

                          Isn't there a rule of fours? Four weeks without food, four days without water, or four minutes without air will cause permanent injury? Also, if it is live, there is the chance he will drown on live television.

                          I'd rofl.
                          You should value your education more than this crap of Flash Flash bull.

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                          • JurseyRider734
                            lil j the bad b-word
                            • Aug 2003
                            • 7506

                            #14
                            Re: David Blain XD

                            He won't drown because he has a crew there that will get him out if he blacks out. He is able to hold his breath for a little over 8 minutes before he started this, and when I was watching him I saw him take off his mask and was underwater without it on for a really long time and I was like "uh...how is he doing that". He trained with people for this for a while, fasted before doing this so there wouldn't be solid waste, and trained with the Navy. He's only being fed gatorade and other nutrients through a tube, and is pissing through a tube that goes under the bottom of the tank.
                            Originally posted by Arch0wl
                            I'd better be considering I own roughly six textbooks on logic and have taken courses involving its extensive use

                            Originally posted by Afrobean
                            Originally Posted by JurseyRider734
                            the fact that you're resorting to threatening physical violence says a lot anyway.
                            Just that you're a piece of shit who can't see reason and instead deserves a fucking beating.

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                            • petpro32
                              FFR Player
                              • May 2006
                              • 160

                              #15
                              Re: David Blain XD

                              I just want to see his lungs explode on live TV. Wouldn't that be a hoot? Also, what a fricken douchbag, David Blaine is. I dont really know why, but i think it's just weird to have all this publicity and media coverage for some freak, desperately trying to prove that he doesn't have a small penis, by showing people that he can do, quote un-quote, amazing things. I think he's just a weirdo...

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