If you haven't stopped by recently, come check out the store at 420 Richards (near Hastings), where you'll life-sized posters of our sponsored female athletes like Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, World Freediving Champion; Ocean Bloom, World Fitness Champion; Tracy Fruin, Fitness Champion; Connie Gallo, Fitness Champion; Julia “The Jewel” Budd, Canadian Muay Thai Champion; Ananda Escudero Gomes, Canadian Freediving Champion; and Shannon Cluff, yoga studio owner.
We're proud to support local athletes and will continue to profile them and their training and lifestyle tips for you in upcoming issues.
Vata Brasil is the creation of Mario Gomes. Both Mario and his wife Ananda are experts in Freediving, the sport of ocean diving to increasingly lower depths with no equipment - only disciplined control of the breath and a weighted rope to guide them.