Alexander: So Erez, it's an honor to be interviewing you.  I'm really excited and happy that we're finally getting around to this. It's been a project I've wanted to do with you for a long time to bring your work clinical work with WaterDance into greater recognition in the water community.

 
Erez: Thank you.

 
A: I think it would be interesting for people to know how it all started for you in the water, what your history in water is.

 
E: My water experiences started I think as soon as I could remember my name. From the age of three my earliest memories, as my parents keep on reminding me the last few years, are me sitting in the bathtub, head in the water, the butt above the water, just holding my breath for fun.

A:  Really?!

 
E: Yeah, at the age of three, four and five. And I was holding my breath for 40 seconds and my father was timing me with a stopwatch.  So it's their fault, it's not my fault! And then I was always swimming in the pool.  I started swimming at the age of two, something like that. And it was never professionally, never competing.  A few years ago I started asking myself, why not, because I was always really good in swimming. It's something I regretted not doing.  So I started swimming in a group a few years ago to say to myself, I can do it!  But it was always water for me -- dreams of water, thoughts of water.  Whenever I want to relax and just get away from things it will always be water, the ocean more than the swimming pool; it's much more energetic for me. 

 
A: At what age did the young Erez discover the ocean?

 
E: I started spearfishing with my brother when I was eight. I would go out for a half an hour the first time, than an hour, two hours.  I caught myself skipping school and going spearfishing for five or six hours just for the fun of it! It has gotten to a place lately where I am going down and I see the fish but don't do anything.  I just lie on the bottom looking at the fish and imagining things.  My attitude has started changing recently towards water and fishing, becoming much more photographic than interested in hunting. It was precisely this other side of me that started it all.