Fit For Films Interview – Train to survive

Train to survive

I wrote a blog for my friends over at Fit For Films summarising an approach to dealing with danger and how physical fitness can increase you chances of survival. The blog is copied below but to read it in all its original glory head to https://www.fitforfilms.com/inspire/train-to-survive

Some people train for health, mental as well as physical, others for aesthetics and others for performance. For some of us it’s an occupational necessity. I confess to training for all of these reasons. But the single most dominant factor which motivates my training is simple – increasing my chances of not getting dead.

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September 9, 2019 FilmFitnessScuba DivingSky DivingTV & Films

Hy3rid Podcast Interview

I sat down with my friends, Tom, Ali and Dai, at Hy3rid Training to talk fitness, health, happiness and how not to die whilst cave diving, skydiving, etc etc. We may have gone off tangent a couple* of times (a lot) to talk metric vs imperial, Slovenia burgers and wraps and why we were all naked under a table covered in duvets.

Listen Here – Hy3rid Podcast

 

August 28, 2019 FilmFitnessScuba DivingSky DivingTV & Films

Oceanographic Interview

 

A copy of an interview I did with Beth Finney for Oceanographic Magazine. To see the original in all its glory head HERE.

 

“IF YOU ARE WILLING TO DEAL WITH AND SUFFER CONDITIONS THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE NOT, THAT MEANS YOU GET TO SEE THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE WILL NEVER SEE.”

Andy Torbet spent ten years as a paratrooper, diver and bomb disposal officer in the British Forces before turning his hand to filmmaking and presenting. Using his skills as a pro diver and skydiver, he has travelled around the world to go on extreme and technical adventures for the likes of the BBC, Discover and The History Channel. Highly skilled and meticulously trained, he makes a beeline for the most hostile environments in order to share these bizarre, alien or remote places with the world.

Oceanographic sat down with Andy to discover more about the man behind the mettle.

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August 25, 2019 CavesFilmNewsScuba DivingTV & Films

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