David Blaine is a self-described resistance artist. He shows his willpower doing an almost impossible stunt instead of doing his magic trick, such as; he stood for thirty-five hours more than eighty feet above, spent sixty sleepless hour in a giant block of ice, spent forty-four days without food, slept on the wooden floor of his bedroom, and spent two straight days in a closet. He learned to win swimming races by not coming up for air the entire length of the pool, and then with practice eventually won five hundred dollars in bets, by swimming five lengths under water. He had spent more than a year preparing for his accomplishment by learning to fill his lungs with pure oxygen and then remain immobile under water conserving oxygen by expanding