Ep. 1110 Free Diving - Alexander Nilsson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Curt interviews Alexander Nilsson, a Swedish freediving record holder, exploring the depths of freediving, its mental and physical challenges, safety measures, and the profound experiences it offers. Alexander shares his journey into the sport, the importance of mindfulness, and the unique sensations of free fall. He emphasizes the significance of safety, especially in extreme conditions like ice diving, and discusses the various types of freediving competitions. The conversation highlights the mental training involved in freediving and how it translates to everyday life, encouraging listeners to embrace the calmness and be okay with life's challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 1110, |
| 0:08.0 | Alexander Nielsen on free diving. |
| 0:11.0 | This is going to be a fantastic episode. |
| 0:14.0 | But before we dive in, I want to make maybe a public service announcement, |
| 0:19.0 | get something off my chest announcement. |
| 0:22.7 | The hosting service that we use inserts advertising from a variety of different advertisers, |
| 0:28.4 | and we can't pre-select what ads we run and which ones we don't run, |
| 0:32.0 | except that we can choose categories. |
| 0:34.1 | I can say, no, not that category. |
| 0:35.9 | Yeah, this category is fine. |
| 0:40.1 | And so I've tried to choose categories that I feel say, no, not that category. Yeah, this category is fine. And so I've tried to choose categories that I feel like are in good alignment with the Adventure Sports podcast, main purpose |
| 0:46.3 | and mission here. When we founded the Adventure Sports podcast 10 years ago, we agreed that we would |
| 0:53.5 | try to not talk about things like politics. And the main |
| 0:57.3 | reason was because we wanted to focus on adventure sports and the benefits that they have for |
| 1:02.2 | everyone. And we didn't want this to become a political show. We just figured there are other |
| 1:06.2 | formats for that. I'm not opposed to it. I just know that this show is about adventure sports. So the other |
| 1:12.6 | day I played back one of the episodes as it had been posted, and I was really surprised that there |
| 1:19.8 | was advertising about THC use, about marijuana, about how to buy marijuana. I feel like that is a political topic. I have heard |
| 1:31.0 | arguments on why marijuana can benefit society and individuals, and I've heard arguments on how |
| 1:37.1 | marijuana can cause a lot of harm with other individuals. And I'm not here to promote or not promote it. |
| 1:46.4 | I'm doing adventure sports, but I believe that marijuana is really a political topic. |
| 1:53.0 | And I want to apologize. |
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