Name: How Shane Dorian Trained for Wipeouts on Big Waves
Uploaded: 2021-12-21T19:23:35.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Shane Dorian Trained for Wipeouts on Big Waves' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Shane Dorian Trained for Wipeouts on Big Waves' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-21. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience when you know like the wave is about to collapse on
you like what do you do I
Mean you just you just you execute your plan that you that you that you have
Like for me it was more and I don't do as much big wave stuff as I once did
49 now and trying to mellow out I still love big waves
But but it was my life for a while and and at the time I was training like a
madman like
Super physically fit working out six days a week super high like crazy intense
And I was working with like breath coaches to do like breath work and stuff
So as soon as I would paddle into the lineup when I was surfing big waves
I was breathing to where I was oxygenating my oxygenating my lungs that I say
that right and so
You basically try to get as much air into your lungs as possible when you know
You're about to eat shit or go under a really huge wave and then you're it's
just a matter of like
Holding your breath, so you just take a giant deep breath, right? Yeah
like crazy and you stuff your lungs and
Everywhere else as much as you can you pack your lungs with as much air is that
you as much. Oh my god Shane Dorian. What the fuck?
Jesus Christ that's scary and that's me eating shit. Wow, but look at this
Oh my god, that's so wild dude and when you eat shit that hard and it comes
down to you that hard like
How much time does it take before you can get up to the surface?
It really depends. I mean in a really bad situation. I had one I had one wipe
out
off the coast of Northern California and half moon bay at this wave called Mavericks
where
This chick was on a boat filming and she filmed me eating shit much like that
And I was underwater she was filming my board and it was tombstoning meaning
she could only see the top half of my surfboard
The bottom half was underwater and I was at the I was that at the end of like a
15-foot leash to my surfboard so
My board is about ten and a half feet long. My leash was 15 feet long and then
I was
At the very bottom of that leash and I was underwater for a minute and about
eight seconds a long time
It doesn't sound like that long right fucking sounds like a long ass time
but I did a lot of breath training or I didn't do a lot of breath training, but
I did some breath training and and like
basically your static breath hold like whatever you can do in a pool with a
calm heart rate like
You can basically under pressure
Like if your heart rate's going crazy, you can you can hold your breath for a
quarter of your static breath. Oh my god
So like when I did my static but when I yeah, isn't that scary?
It's terrifying but it's powerful because
If you know that you have say hypothetically you have a four minute breath hold
static
Then that means under pressure like in a situation like that where your heart
rate's really high and you're getting the shit kicked out of you
You should be able to hold your breath for one minute
And and survive. Yeah, but I don't I can't hold my breath for four minutes. I
think when we did that thing with
How long do you think you can do it?
How long did I hold my breath?
We didn't finish it, but you did you did it quite a long time
And he was about to teach us how to do it longer, but we didn't get that far
They can teach you how to do it longer
Longer than everybody else, but I still didn't think it was that long
Over two minutes. I think yeah, but that's not that long. I don't think it was
four. Yeah
Yeah, I think it was like two and a half minutes
But vasily lomachenko one of the things he does for every fight is he tries to
make his ability to hold his breath longer
And for this last one he got to four minutes and 30 seconds
Which is like two seconds longer than those are rookie numbers
I would imagine for like a free surfer or a free diver, right?
It's got to be so good for him, right? It's a huge advantage that lung capacity
is is massive with fighting
Yes, for sure
But I mean, I think he does it also just for mental toughness just like to
build just ability to steal his mind
Yeah, just fucking
Just a lot of it is just being like for me
It was great because I had that like if you don't know that if you don't know
the science behind holding your breath for a long time
Under pressure with a high heart rate, then you just go into these wipeouts
like I hope I survive
I need to hold my breath and when you have that hope type of mindset
Then your heart rate goes higher and you start burning more oxygen, right?
But if you don't have that hope if that's not a part of your mindset and you're
just like shit
I've done the training
I know how long I can hold my breath with a high heart rate and and knowing
that that number and knowing that
You're pretty much never going to be held underwater for that long like I could
hold my breath
Um, the longest I held my breath during this during the the during the breath
training thing that I did was
Five minutes and 34 seconds. Well, hope is not a good thing for any skill. No,
like I hope the ball goes in the net
It's not going in. I hope I make this shot
I'm not making the shot like an archery like you can't hope you hit the vitals
You have to know you're gonna hit the vitals when you release that arrow that
arrow you have to have fucking
Hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of training if you're hoping yeah,
you're hoping you're fuck. Yeah, you're fucked
And it's like that with big waves. So for me, I was like, okay
I can hold my breath for five minutes and 34 seconds and so I can so so
25% of that I can do that with a high heart rate. So that's your your record is
534. Yeah
When those free divers get to like seven eight minutes, like what are they
doing different?
They just well and I only did one three-day course of like breath training or
four four day course
So they so they teach you the science behind breath holding and they they they
help you with like things to think about to get your static
Higher and higher and higher give us the cliff notes like really
essentially, um
They they have you hold your breath right the start see how you know what your
static breath hold is
And then they teach you how to how to hold it for longer
And so it's almost like meditation like for me like the um
You basically think of you don't think of time you don't count the seconds you
think about things that have like like for me
It was like they were like, okay
Think about something that's super detailed and go through that process while
you're holding your breath
So I was in the pool and a guy's timing me and i'm in a wetsuit and I go
underwater and I packed my bags to go hunting on lanai
Yeah, so I was like, hey
So I started holding my breath and went underwater and I was like, okay
What do I need for my hunting trip on lanai?
I need I need how many arrows do I need?
Three dozen
And then I was like, okay get my broadheads then I gotta get my my boots okay
Now I gotta get my waterproof boots and I need to get my like sneaking shoes.
Okay. What socks do I need like super detailed?
super boring
Stuff that you know really well and I went through that whole packing thing and
then I like literally I got in my truck in my mind
Drove down to the airport
Got on the plane flew there got off the plane
It was like all this stuff was happening
And then I didn't know how much time had passed and then after and then you
know, you have that involuntary
Uh urge to breathe, you know
Have you ever hold held your breath for a long time and all of a sudden you go?
Yeah
Your stomach starts doing this thing. It's like telling your brain you need to
breathe now or else you're gonna die
It's not true
So
When you do these breath holding classes, it's really neat because they tell
you like
When that urge to breathe that tells you you need to be right now or you're
gonna black out or die or whatever
It is, especially if you're underwater. It's really scary, right?
And so they teach you to go
Okay, you need to hold through these these these uh
These big contractions and so like these contractions are are happening
And you're not paying attention to them when you're like in this meditative
type of mindset
And that's how you can hold your breath for a super long time
So when you go through them, it does it ever get easier when you're you hit
those things?
Yeah, it's just something you learn how to deal with it's super uncomfortable,
right?
And so yeah, you learn to deal with it. You learn to go. Okay. This is totally
normal
I know I can hold through multiple minutes of this this these contractions urge
Yeah, so then you end up like not even paying attention to them. Really? Yeah
So it's like you need to at the end
Because you get really like spacey and relaxed like like super in this meditative
state
To where like at the end they because they start speeding up those contractions
start speeding up
And when they get to a certain when they get to a certain, um, you know
When they start happening fast enough you black out
So when I was doing this this this underwater training, you know, you do it
with a partner
There's a guy watching you all the time
So you don't have a shallow water blackout. You don't drown. Jesus. Yeah
Thank you.