Michelle Khare

It may sound crazy, but under the right training and supervision, it is possible.

But to get there, you have to push through the struggle phase.

This is when, as carbon dioxide builds in your bloodstream, your brain thinks you're suffocating and sends signals to your diaphragm to cause violent contractions to force you to breathe.

Now, for weeks, I failed at this edge, and my breath hold times were progressively getting worse.

until my coach told me, hey, you can't muscle through.

You have to surrender.

And when I finally surrendered to the pain, I started noticing all these details I hadn't before.

I noticed I was shivering, which meant I was burning valuable oxygen just trying to stay warm.

My wetsuit felt a little too tight, so I actually wasn't able to get a full inhale before I went in.

I started noticing all of these little changes that we began to make and address.

And it made all the difference.

Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information.

It tells us exactly what we need to know in order to progress.

And when we addressed all of these things, everything changed.

Six weeks later, I escaped Houdini's trick in two minutes and 40 seconds.

This is me in front of a panel of 20 martial arts legends, about to fail spectacularly in front of all of them.

A black belt in taekwondo typically takes three to five years to earn, but I wanted to see if it would be possible in only 90 days.

Everybody thought I was crazy, and many people rightfully questioned if it was even appropriate to do something like this.

So I knew I could only progress with the blessing of a respected master.

Enter the legendary Grand Master Simon Re.