I Spent 7 Days

 His TED talk became one of Bill Gates’ personal favorites, and is widely considered the most revealing testimony Blaine has ever given on the topic of his remarkable career.

After releasing David in 1973, we feel his power levels have crept up to a higher point than we initially intended.  While we acknowledge David is simply "built diff", we want to make sure the playing field is evened out for everyone else. 

In patch 20.21 David Blaine's passive "Mermaid Lungs" will be reduced from a 17 minute duration to 16 minutes. 

David's 2nd passive, "Inhuman Tolerance" will be reduced from 400% to 375%. 

And finally, his ultimate's passive, "Luck of the Angels" will be reduced from 100% to 99%.

He was buried for 7 days and nights I would be having a panic attack after the first hour being underground with barely any moving space.

Does anyone remember the night Conan Obrien put him on his late night show really quickly for a tiny segment before the credits because he was impressed by his street magic outside their building? He literally grabbed him from the sidewalk and put him on his show and then....became a star after that.

David Blaine was born April 4th 1973, an asthmatic with the lower-than-average lung capacity. In spite of this, by the time he was a teenager, he had broken Harry Houdini’s breath-hold record of 3 minutes and 30 seconds. And the best TV magic special ever done.

Two years later, Blaine performed his first endurance stunt. That even his friends began to wonder if it was fake. It was real. It took him months to recover. A year and a half later,   Blaine stood on a pillar 22 inches wide  and 100 feet tall above Bryant Park. After 35 hours, severely dehydrated and  sleep-deprived, he concluded the stunt by jumping down into a pile of cardboard boxes, and suffered a concussion and a fractured rib.

The following year, sealed in a Plexiglas box  suspended high in the air next  to the Tower Bridge in London, Blaine fasted on nothing but water for 44 days. When it was over Blaine’s doctor,  convinced that he had somehow cheated,  administered an IV drip full of nutrients.

A short while later, he co-authored an academic  paper about his feet with that very same doctor. After a vigorous year of training, he spent seven consecutive days in a water-filled Sphere in New York City- the longest submersion under water ever recorded. On the second day, suffering from mild organ failure, Blaine rejected multiple attempts by  his medical team to end the stunt. On the last day, while handcuffed, Blaine  attempted a world record breath hold. Seven minutes in he began blacking out and divers jumped in to save his life.

Determined to succeed, he trained relentlessly for the next two years. On April 30th 2008, pushing through excruciating pain and ischemia to the heart,  live on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Over the next few years, Blaine shot a bullet  into his mouth twice, withstood a million volts of electricity continuously for three days, involving swallowing a deadly amount of water and kerosene and spouting them out at will. sewed his mouth shut, and stored the same three frogs in his stomach thousands of times, eaten over 30 pounds of glass, performed thousands of breath holds- averaging 10 minutes each. There are those who say you’re a magician, why  not just stick with magic instead of these feats?

But, David believes that pushing through the pain   to achieve what seems impossible is a more gratifying form of magic. And though its caused me a lot of worry over the years,

STOP wasting your life

Why would you even think remaining in a box for days....this guy is crazy, but at least he knows his body better than everyone will ever do.