Jiri Prochazka continues to check his limits in unconventional methods.
A former UFC mild heavyweight champion, Prochazka is understood to be one of many extra eccentric personalities in MMA. Again when he was champion, Prochazka spent three days with out water in a darkish room as a type of psychological coaching, saying it allowed him to “work along with his demons.” Earlier than that, Prochazka would punch timber as much as 500 occasions a day in preparation for his fights. Now, “BJP” has one-upped himself but once more.
On his YouTube channel on Wednesday, Prochazka launched a mini-documentary about his journey to swim 30 meters underneath a frozen lake.
Ice diving is mostly thought-about to be a harmful endeavor, with an elevated menace of drowning together with hypothermia and different threat elements. However for somebody all the time trying to take a look at his limits, it offered Prochazka with precisely the kind of problem he loves.
“The whole lot I do right here, relating to the breath, relating to all these numerous journeys to the mountains, climbing mountains, coaching martial arts, MMA, all these items merely assist me, primarily and above all, to maintain myself totally underneath management; to broaden my self esteem, the spirit with which I am going into battle,” Prochazka stated. “An individual doesn’t really go into the MMA cage solely with what they’ve educated, however they go there with their complete historical past, with every thing, all of the exhausting issues they expertise in life.”
Prochazka most just lately fought in January, knocking out Jamahal Hill at UFC 311.
