Alchemy Podcast

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Alchemy Podcast

Alchemy

10 episodes

5 months ago

Welcome to another episode of the Alchemy Podcast: not your average freediving podcast. My name is Luca Malaguti, and I will be your host for another wild episode. In this episode, we have something unique and unusual: one of the world's top climbers joining us here: Will Gadd. I sat down for a live, unscripted event in Squamish, British Columbia (the outdoor sports capital of Canada) with Will during the ArcTeryx festival. This last-minute event turned out to be a local hit among the outdoor...

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Alchemy Podcast - Either You Suck Or You Don't

5 months ago

1 hour 21 minutes

Alchemy Podcast

Alchemy Podcast - Medical Perspectives On Freediving

Welcome back to the Alchemy Podcast, the only freediving podcast out there where we dig (and dive) deep into questions and topics most don’t want to discuss. I am your host Luca Malaguti, a proud Alchemy ambassador, professional athlete and record holder. Tday we have the opportunity to sit down with none other than Jani Valdivia, whom I consider a “gem” to the freediving world. Jani is a medical doctor, neurosurgeon, deep freediver, and Peruvian record holder…and I’ll stop there since ...

1 year ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - A Freediver's Odyssey

We are delighted to present our special guest today, Gary McGrath. Gary is a renowned deep freediver, holding the British National Record and serving as an instructor in this exhilarating sport. In his favorite discipline, monofin (CWT), Gary achieved an astounding record of -112 meters on a single breath. This remarkable feat was accomplished during the summer of 2022 at the prestigious Vertical Blue freediving competition in the Bahamas, often referred to as the Wimbledon of freediving. In ...

2 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - Pursue Your Passion

In this episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Stefan Randig, a renowned German freediver who has lived in various parts of the world, including Egypt and the Philippines. Stefan previously owned the well-known school "Freedive Panglao" in the Philippines, but sold it before the COVID-19 pandemic and relocated to Dahab, Egypt with his family to focus on teaching, training, and spending time with his loved ones. As an accomplished athlete with multiple German records and an instructor traine...

2 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - You Only Live Once

Welcome to the Alchemy Podcast. We have a very special guest with us today, Mr. Tim Emmett. Tim is a professional ice climber, rock climber, former pro base jumper, author, speaker, and father. He is also a pretty bad-ass freediver himself, we've dove together in freezing waters, beneath icebergs in Iceland and Greenland. Tim has an incredible life story to tell, traveling the world for climbing, from deep water soloing in Vietnam, to climbing remote boulders in Mongolia and ice climbing the ...

2 years ago

1 hour 30 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - Relationships, Selfishness & Being A Mother

In this episode of Alchemy Podcast, we chat with Enchante Gallardo about balancing the freediving life of a professional athlete, being a mother, and relationships. We’ll talk about how sometimes in certain aspects of our lives we have to be “selfish” - selfish with our training, selfish with the core group of people in our lives amongst a very friendly community of freedivers, and selfish with our emotions and energy. Freediving is an immensely emotional and psychological endeavor, so ...

3 years ago

49 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - Sex, Self Love & Freediving

Welcome to yet another episode of the Alchemy Podcast. My name is Luca Malaguti and I will be your host for today. We’re very lucky to have a special guest today, a crazy man, a genius, and my good friend Gus Kreivenas. Gus is a deep freediver, accomplishing over 100 meters on one breath at the Vertical Blue competition in 2018, a well-respected coach in our community and runs his school Touch Down Space in Dahab, Egypt. He has an immense amount of knowledge when it comes to train...

3 years ago

21 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - Fear Of Loss

In this episode, we sit down and chat with French freediver and record-holder Thibault Guignes. Thibault is a highly experienced competitive diver, instructor trainer, and business owner. Having dove up to -120 meters on one breath, and known for his impressive hangs at depth, he is one of the most experienced freedivers in the world. I have personally seen him do hangs up to 45 seconds at -90 meters to prepare both mind and body for going even deeper. He is known for doing even more impressi...

3 years ago

30 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - Full Time Freediver

In this episode, we sat down with Carlos Diezel in Dahab, Egypt. Yep, pretty awesome name, suits the guy well. A former Brazilian engineer, Carlos turned his life 180 degrees to pursue his dream and take his family with him. Becoming a professional freediver, instructor, and business owner at the famous Dahab Freedivers school, Carlos is an awesome inspiration to many of us looking to dedicate our lives to this sport. We discussed the harsh realities of changing a life, the difficulties of be...

3 years ago

41 minutes

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Alchemy Podcast - Why The F**k Go Deep?

Welcome to the Alchemy Podcast. Please be aware that this is not your regular freediving podcast. My name is Luca Malaguti, and I will be your host. I’ll travel the world to meet the top freediving athletes, coaches, trainers, and generally awesome human beings to pick their brains. We’ll sit down one-on-one, grab a beer or two, and dive into topics related to freediving, most people don’t want to discuss. We’ll chat about ego and freediving, sex, relationships, and self-love in the life of t...

3 years ago

50 minutes