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Atleta a 40 anni: una donna in cammino | Mariafelicia Carraturo | TEDxNapoli


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I will speak to you today about a journey of mine
journey to the abyss that from the bottom but
led to the rebirth are
record holder of the world of apnea in trim
variable and I became an athlete at 40
years
how do I become an athlete for 40 years?
they ask many
Well, in my case it was easy for me
separate
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I attended my first course
d’apnea is 36 years old and I immediately returned
account that to improve in this sport
it takes time to adapt the
body to the depth and I at the time of
I had very little time with it as a goddess
devote at least ob
I was totally absorbed by the family
and by children and only rarely could I manage to
make some outings at sea with the
friends
yet I’m good I told myself in 2010
I can transform a negative moment
of my life in an opportunity
the time gap of freedom from children
that separation requires me during the
summer time become for me
the opportunity to do some training
more serious said fact
I sign up for my first competition
international to are in egypt because
in training I had already reached the
share of an Italian record but problems
of personal nature and culture
they force to give up the following year
however a coach believes in me and the
metamorphosis from athlete of Sunday into
athlete starts and I find myself like that
Suddenly I’m sitting on the bench
inside the Rome station
Terms waiting for the train that I
he would have brought to Fiumicino from there I would be
game for kalamata in greece
to dispute my first race in
absolute outdoor of hartner as well as a
world
Well I knew how many meters I was able
to go under water
I knew how far I had come but why
go to officialize a result
why go to a world championship
I was afraid I was there sitting on that one
bench and I fixed my monopinna and
attracted I wanted to escape I wanted to leave
I wanted to go home to my children
to my family to my normal life
I was afraid of jumping in the b
I know I was going to do the
organizer of the world I do not
they had even yet communicated which one
it was my hotel I did not know the
rules of the game
I only knew that to center mine
I would have had one goal
opportunities not like in training where
when you fail the next day, try again
I was afraid of failing
I was afraid of leaving home
my children to be judged by
all because mine is a sport
dangerous and expensive and without earnings a
sea ​​of ​​uneasiness crowded
in the mind
however there was something in me that me
he was forced to sit there on that one
bench and waiting for that train ed
it was the curiosity my soul was a
knowledge of my project knew
intimately what I wanted to do
as a woman I was curious because I wanted to
make new travel experiences
know people with cultures
religions languages ​​and different customs like
athlete
I was curious to be able to repeat in
race under the eyes of world judges
the dive
this is what the tennis player’s test is called
one shot I had already done in
training but in a situation of
more relaxing and among friends I was
curious to be able to overcome mine
limits that coincide only by chance
with record limits
I learned of myself that crossing the
fear and freeing curiosity or strength
will of character and dedication and the
decisive push that made me jump
on that train and go all the way
to the dream was courage and del
courage to explore the abyss has me
brought to know the most disciplines
extreme of the apnea the nolimit and the
variable from 2011 to date approved 6
Italian records and a world record in
four different disciplines and I wanted to
and had to adapt to different ways of doing
apnea
to different equipment to different ways of
pinnate passing from the two fins
monofinna to different ways of
breathe and compensate for the ears ho
learned to know parts of my body
of which I did not even have the perception
the gold pharyngeal cable I learned to
load the area into your mouth and manage it
during all my descent to hold
the tubes of a bag always well open
I learned so I know how to move well
tongue to keep close to
glottis and simultaneously open the
palate soft love to move mine well
jaws not just for eating and mine
cheeks after only three dives in these
new disciplines
I reached less than 100 meters
depth 100 meters is the number
coveted by each prepares to three figures
after some training all however
I have a frontal collision with the sled
so it is called the equipped and brings me
underwater and I almost lose my right eye
I’m going to stay dry for six months but I do not
discouraging the following year homologue between
Italian records of which one came across
since 26 years in 2017 I’m ready for
my world record but a serious one
problem during a workout as well
the lack of a sponsor
mine is an expensive niche sport
especially to guarantee me security
I need to force me to
psychologically giving up are on the ground
or an accident behind no money
and an entourage that continually me
he repeats that I am great at age
mother who is dangerous and asks me
obsessively because I however have one
unshakable trust in myself
I work hard 5 hours a day all the
days between gym pool and camp
athletics
not following a strict diet
and the following summer this summer there
I try again I ‘m back in the water but of
new after some training or a
serious accident
and then it was time for
really ask me if this was the
my way
after a period of rest ordered me
from the doctors, however, I find again the
dare to go all the way to mine
project to touch the abyss
and the answer is not late and fight to one
the team
you never know
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third guardini
strong meters
think
and third kimi
20
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even men meters the head stack
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and teenagers
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626 attained and achieved by himself
in third-party systems
meeting the furious mt
if you see perceived by a last test
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katy meters
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goian shyness
third themes
here
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at 48 I became a champion of the
world of apnea in variable trim with
minus 115 meters in 3 minutes and 4 seconds e
almost 13 atmospheres that press on mine
body and on my ears what
try when you’re alone down there in the
silence all ask me to silence
of the abyss I would like to be veiled to hear is
something so noisy that attracts
inexorably my attention is in the
silence that takes place mine
performance and it is the silence that me
allows it to be concentrated and the
contact with myself
for me the most difficult part of the dive
and the descent sledge makes me fly to
more than two and a half meters per second and the
pressure amenta incessantly on the
body and on my rich
But I let myself go I leave
totally take crush from the sea
I do not oppose resistance
I’m totally relaxed there however
a part of me that remains alert
I stay in the here and now or work from
make the narcosis for those depths
a track is always lurking and not
I can afford the luxury of losing the
focus is finally touch the hat but
arrived at the bottom half of the journey is made
left with his half that joy
adrenaline which is certainly beautiful I have many
meters still to be noted before arriving
on the surface an infinite column
of water weighs on my head but I am
I repeat confident that the peg made the
the more I left it behind me
and then me
also called the luxury of smiling alone
who really loves you helps you fly
and I loved myself so much and I am
strongly felt that something was me
changed when the voices of others me
they just seemed like the rustle of bees
buzzing and looking into my eyes
I have already seen Madame of the depths
thank you
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