Amelia sets world record by blowing most air rings underwater
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Apr 14, 2025
Amelia is a freediver and practicing air rings is part of her training routine. She took on this record whilst in the Philippines.
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The attempt was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be
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When I practiced, I was practicing by myself and I would count the bubbles
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but I had never had anybody else count them. So the number that I had in my head was different to the actual number of bubbles
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that wouldn't break up on the surface. So when I went to do the attempt and I tried the first time
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I couldn't even do it. My background in the area of bubble brain making comes from freediving
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When you freedive, you learn techniques to expand your lungs, you learn, or with the training
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you learn to control the contractions that happen when you need to breathe. So all that
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helps for making bubble brains. And the technique is really easy. First, the shallower you go
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the easier it is. So trying a ball ring at five meters is much harder than a
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meter and a half. But you also then have to figure out what is the ideal depth
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because if you're too shallow then the bubbles will break each other up. All you
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do is you put some pressure in your cheeks and you stick your tongue out and and then you suck it back in Boop boop boop So I do the okay And then the next thing that you have to do is get a rhythm
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If you do them too fast, the bubbles will kill each other and they have to make it pass through one meter
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But if you look, if I had one to do them to the surface, which is the other attempt
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there's one that goes to the other one and one of them dies
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so the speed is really important for the survival of the bubble and then as you're going so your
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lungs are getting empty and more empty and more empty and by the end my lungs are beyond where
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you are and exhale so and then more like growing up after my life I've never been an athlete I was
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a kid that failed physical education several times and that was never fit for any teens and
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I can't do a push-up I can't run very far and then suddenly I found my superpower which is holding
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my breath or diving or making bubble rings and then it was pretty cool also that I worked for
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something and wow I got a record
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