Huang Hua Yang is a former farmer and the deepest freediving athlete from the beautiful country of Taiwan. One of the deepest men in the world, he shares his freediving story and philosophy with us.
In this episode we discuss:
Huayang joined us from Panglao, Philippines at the time of recording, where he was training for the Asian Freediving Cup.
Comparing conditions in Panglao and Taiwan.
Donny lived in Taiwan for ten years and started a freediving school there.
Huayang was a farmer from the countryside close to Taoyuan, before he came to freediving in 2011.
Talking of the beauty of Taiwan’s Orchid Island.
Shout out to Wayne and Yen at Weirdos Freediving and Wu How at Deep Soul.
Huayang took his first freediving course in 2015, possibly one of the first PADI freediving courses.
Huayang did his instructor course with JP Francois at Freediving Planet in Moalboal, Philippines.
A question from Patreon supporter Tom Way about the freediving scene in Taiwan.
Taiwanese diver Haixiang beats Alexey in DNF in competition.
About the future of freediving competitions and their taking place in Asia.
Huayang’s journey to depth and competitions.
Shout out to Huayang’s coach Theo-Patrick Fourcade.
What are the fundamentals of training for freediving for Huayang? How has it changed over time?
Does he see any major differences in the training philosophies of Western and Asian freedivers?
Comparing different training approaches of different coaches.
Different athletes need different approaches.
What does it take to dive deeper than 100m?
Huayang’s experience with lung squeeze and how to avoid it?
His experiences with narcosis, how does it feel?
The benefits of RV diving for training compressibility.
How a week of training looks like for him at the moment.
On teaching equalisation to speakers of different languages.
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Why does he freedive?
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