due to the return of a foot injury, he suffered while running barefoot on the Arctic Circle a year earlier.Īs he admits, he achieved this, among other things, thanks to a special breathing technique he developed. Then he had to put on shoes because crampons cannot be attached to sandals. Wearing shorts and sandals, he climbed to a height of 6700 m a.s.l. In 2007 he made an unsuccessful attempt to climb Mount Everest.Wearing only shorts, Hof finished the race with a time of 5 hours and 25 minutes. At that time, the temperatures reached −20 ° C. In the same year, he completed the marathon behind the Arctic Circle in Finland.
If the stuff mentioned above is not impressive enough for you, he also did the things below: On March 16, 2000, Hof set the Guinness World Record for swimming under ice, he swam a distance of 57.5 meters.On January 26, 2007, Hof set a Guinness Record in a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow, with a time of 2 hours, 16 minutes and 34 seconds.In 2018, with a group of 18 amateurs trained in his method, they broke the Guinness record, reaching the peak of Kilimanjaro in 31 hours and 25 minutes. He climbed this peak several times with various groups of people he trained in the following years. In February 2009, Hof climbed Kilimanjaro Peak in two days, wearing only shorts and shoes.His last best time was 1 hour 53 minutes and 2 seconds. He broke this record 16 times, until being dethroned in 2014. Wim Hof did it while wearing only swimming trunks. The longest bath in ice – contact with ice over the entire length of the body from the neck down.Which contributed to him breaking the Guinness records. His specific lifestyle and extraordinary skills aroused media interest. Since then, he shaped his body and learned to control his mind by running barefoot on the snow, swimming in icy water, and doing other experiments that would give the average person hypothermia. Wim Hof did as he felt, he undressed and immersed himself in the reins. As a 17-year-old, while passing nearby very cold water covered with a thin layer of ice, he felt the need to jump into it. Wim Hof owes this nickname to his ability to control body temperature and resistance to extreme cold. Wim Hof, better known as the “Iceman”, is a Dutch record holder, adventurer, and real daredevil, born in 1959. Who is Wim Hof?īefore we get to the breathing method itself, it’s worth getting to know its creator first. That’s why today we’ll take a closer look at this topic. This guy is the creator of a special breathing method called Wim Hof method, which, as it turns out, can be used also in BJJ and MMA. It is for sure interesting but you can say ok, but what does this have to do with BJJ? It turns out that more than can be expected at first glance. There is a guy named Wim Hof who runs barefoot on the snow, swims under the ice, and climbs the world’s highest mountains only in shorts.