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Breathing only once and using only muscular strength, the French freediver Guillaume Néry is able to dive to 125 meters deep. With his multiple world achievements and through an amazing combination of elite sport and video art, Néry reveals the immensity of nature, shows that the human body has an enormous capacity to adapt to the aquatic environment and shares the deep values that he has learned on the seabed.

His video Free Fall , in which Néry appears jumping empty, free lung, inside the blue hole of Dean , the second largest in the world with 220 meters deep, captures the beauty and mystery of this bay of Bahamas This viral video, which was recorded by his wife Julie Gautier, has reached 26 million views on YouTube. However, as they confessed in the US program Outrageous Acts of Science, “the idea was not to touch the bottom but to create an artistic film different from what we usually see under water, redefining the limits and trying to dive as deep as possible”.

The magic of free diving

Néry, in addition to being a champion in apnea with constant weight, has absolute control of the body over the mind in the most extreme conditions and ensures that holding your breath helps you stop thinking and enter a state of peace and absolute relaxation.

For Néry, diving becomes a kind of conquest of the universe, which also allows him to access an unknown and unexplored space. In his conference for TED, The Sweeping Peace of Free Diving explained what he experiences at the bottom of the sea, 123 meters deep and without oxygen equipment: “I feel like a small point, a stardust floating in the middle of the cosmos and the immensity. It’s a fascinating feeling because I look up, down, left, right, front, back, and I see the same thing: a very deep blue infinity. ”

The dive also lets you connect with other values such as humility, acceptance of the present moment or respect for his team: “When I find this depth I’m a bit of anything that is lost in this great whole. And that is completely fascinating. ”

Do not miss the video in which Guillaume Néry explores the Y40 pool, the deepest in the world, in a single dive and without diving equipment!

Image Source: Les films engloutis / Guillaume Néry

With 35 million surfers around the world, surfing and the lifestyle that surrounds it does not stop growing. Now, the consolidation of artificial wave pools to practice this sport opens up new business routes. 

It is indisputable that the practice of surfing goes beyond the sporting aspect. More and more brands are taking advantage of the values transmitted by this activity to connect with a loyal public and generate a millionaire business. According to the World Surf League, this industry moves about 12,000 million euros per year, so any project that involves bringing this practice to new audiences arouses enormous interest.

Since the surfer, Kelly Slater presented in 2015 the artificial wave pool Kelly Slater Wave Co, this type of facilities have continued to proliferate and are confirmed as a very effective tourist attraction. When Slater published a video of an artificial wave with a perfect tube, a huge debate was generated on the network, and thousands of fans began to ask when the complex, which works with solar energy, would be opened to the public.

Here is another important reason that has boosted the boom of these facilities. On June 1, 2016, the International Olympic Committee announced that surfing, along with four other sports (baseball, skateboarding, karate and sports climbing), would be part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The details of how and where the surfing event will be held are not yet known. In the beginning, the organization of the games mentioned the possibility of performing it in artificial waves, although it seems that, finally, natural waves have been chosen. However, to prepare without depending on weather conditions, several countries have already announced plans to build large wave pools for their teams to train. For example, the Australian government plans to build three surf parks in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

In 2018 we will swim in pools with transparent edges that will create optical illusions in our garden. In addition, in the next year, the space limitations will be increasingly smaller because their dimensions become more compact to adapt to the interior of our own homes. In 2018, collaborative pools, conceptual designs and pools capable of empathizing with our mood will also break out. Welcome to the future!

1. Pools integrated into the environment

A few days ago we advanced that 2018 will be the year of the pools with a surprise effect. Precisely, the pools with transparent edges achieve this sensation because they adapt to the environment and integrate the water inside the constructions creating amazing optical illusions.

2. Collaborative pools

The collaborative pool emerges to solve the demands of a new society with different forms of leisure. If we are used to sharing our houses, music or television, why not transfer this business model to the pool sector? The applications of the future will put in contact users interested in sharing a pool and gives a new possibility to these facilities, sometimes underused.

These apps also bring benefits to entrepreneurs in the sector who can access a large volume of data to detect business needs, discover where their potential customers are and anticipate future needs.

3. The boom of the mini-pools

The luxury of being able to enjoy a pool inside the home is not incompatible with space. In 2018 the pool will become a luxurious domestic object , of discrete dimensions, minimalist designs and materials that will adapt to the environment of the interior of our homes.

4. Pools that empathize with our mood

The 2018 smart pool will also have the ability to adapt to our mood, interpret our emotions and adapt all the systems to create a coherent environment for them. The new applications will be able to instantly modify the temperature, lighting or even activate aromas to adapt to our energy. A new and surprising concept.

5. Installable pools

The risky designs and with contrasted tonalities will be fully topical. The architecture that integrates the pools in a new way, as if they were conceptual works or filmed scenarios, will be viralized in 2018 through social networks like Instagram or Pinterest.

Images: Barclay & Crousse / Unsplash / Richard England

 

Diving is one of the most visually spectacular and exciting sports. Proof of this is the absolute silence that reigns in Olympic stadiums from the moment a diver plunges off the springboard and lands in the water. Given the huge hypnotic effect this traditional sports discipline has on spectators, what would happen if the divers were… giraffes?

This is the premise of “5 metres 80” a short film by the French moviemaker Nicolas Deveaux. In this animated film, dozens of giraffes dive off a number of springboards doing all sorts of artistic movements and somersault into a big indoor pool.

After a process of creation of a year and a half, the work premiered in 2012. Since then, the short film has received numerous awards: Best Short Film at the Artfutura International Festival (2013), Special Award at the City of Lights International Festival of Los Ángeles (2014) or the Audience Award at the New York International Children’s Film Festival (2015), among others.

It is not the first time that Nicolas Deveaux places a majestic natural animal of the African savanna in a sporting environment. In 2005, one year after graduating from the Supinfocom 3D animation school, he created the movie “7 tonnes 2” which allowed us to see an elephant (the only mammal that can not jump) jumping powerfully on a trampoline. This production was screened at numerous festivals around the world.

As a result of the short film “5 metres 80”, the television channel France 3 commissioned Deveaux a series of videos to congratulate the summer and winter holidays to its spectators. In these pieces, the animals are again protagonists of fun activities: hippos that slide down a water slide and play tennis , a skater turtle , parachute jumping elephants , and, again, a stylish giraffe that dives into a Pool from a trampoline .

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