"When you're doing a breathing class with Wim Hof on #FridayThe13th under a #NewMoon and Mercury is heavily in #Retrograde and you pass out..."
It might not be so trendy, today, but a few years back ice bath plunges and wild holding breath business was entirely all the rage. Cold was the key to eternal youth. Lack of breathing, or some derivation thereof, the secret to perfect health. And Wim Hof, a 65-year-old Dutchman, was at the very forefront of it all.
Hof, known as “The Iceman” wowed the fitness-conscious by breaking the Guinness Book of World Records records for swimming under ice, laying upon ice and running a half marathon, barefoot, upon, you guessed it, ice. Hof developed a whole system around cold, lack of breathing and perpetual adolescents, naming it the Wim Hof Method that was practiced enthusiastically by professional surf icons like Laird Hamilton and Kelly Slater.
The best of the best.
Eight years ago, you may recall when the 11x world champ became knocked right out doing a Wim Hof Method. Afterward, Slater penned, “When you’re doing a breathing class with #WimHof (@iceman_hof) on #FridayThe13th under a #NewMoon and Mercury is heavily in #Retrograde and you pass out and fall on your face, start dreaming and wake up wondering where tf you are and why does your face feel like you just got tackled on the football field and somebody was filming it all…but you think it’s funny.”
“You knocked yourself out,” Hof responded.
Well, in a turn nobody saw coming, The Iceman has just come under heavy fire for alleged abuse. A report published in the Netherlands’ de Volkskrant newspaper over the weekend claimed Hof had “subjected his former partner, their son and her two children from a previous marriage to physical and verbal abuse over a period of 13 years.”
Hof vociferously denies the charges and vows to fight them in the court of Dutch law, but a possible casualty is his biopic which is currently in the works and starring Shakespeare in Love heartthrob Joseph Fiennes.
The production company for the film released a statement declaring, “Genesius Pictures can confirm that due to the severity of the allegations, this production, which was in development only and had not begun filming, is on hold.”
Big bummer for those who enjoy their films as cold as their beverages.
There will, certainly, be more as this story develops.
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I note that the latest production is “on hold” and not “on ice”. His PR people are working overtime and covering all bases, BG included.
Knocking out Kelly Slater in any way in the last 30+years has taken some doing. Quite a distinction for this bloke to add to his squat CV. In fact it takes your breath away.
I’m not holding my breath on an update
What about getting too stoned and listening to Bad Moon Rising on repeat?
The Wim Hof method otherwise known as Numbing the Pain.
bad breath
Ke11y must’ve been very busy over last few years, as clearly back then he knew better than 0% of doctors.
not holding my breath waiting for…”more as this story develops”
I cee what you did there.
dude
guru syndrome
That’s the universe doing its best to prevent you reading this tripe!
I am suspect of how the people making the biggest changes in our world are suddenly getting knocked off their perch, like what the fuck is going on with Russel Brand!?
Xox
I hope for his sake that he’s making a doco “how I git rich by trolling millions of flat earthers”.
I just want it in record that I actually surfed last night. Not in the ocean but, still….
Is it freezin?
Na, 3/2 was fine
This reminds me of when we ran out of IcyHot to rub in our noses during a “________”, in Haiti. You would try to hold your breath as much as possible, but it was impossible. You smell that place physically for about a month after you leave, and mentally for life. NOTHING, not even Somalia comes close!
Red Cross or medicins sans frontieres?
Those are actually corrupt orgs. But no, more like immediate transportation for people leaving in the middle of the night…
I might have worked with you in Russia. Got drunk with a pilot who had to quit flying due to getting on the Interpol red list for “flying people to countries that don’t have laws about torture”
interpol….there’s another level of corruption. intertraffickingpol*
True this guy is creep. Prob simps for Harris
A. This is no surprise. Wim has always given me weird vibe like ‘underneath this loveable eccentric mask is an abusive eccentric’. I honestly suspected something weirder
B. I love the typo(?) ‘perpetual adolescents’. Wim Hof’s Method has certainly given him lots of access to fit young things over the years, and my suspicions were more in the realm of what kind of kinky icy stuff he likes to get up to with those fit young things.
A bit of the old fully innnnn fully ouuuuut action
Guess his self-reflection after his first wife killed herself might have been less asking himself, “Am I a fucking dick?” and more asking himself, “Should I be hyperventilating at least 3 – 5 times per day?”
Going on a bit of a Wim here but did you copy and paste this from the Hof post?
Its always the one’s you most suspect.
Totally
Conan Hayes partner in crime Tina Peter just got 9 years in prison for tampering with voting machines.
Uh oh.