Wim Hof's Court Case Takes a Turn

Last week there were two major updates in the Wim Hof story. 

First, as I reported in this video on Friday, the court in Long Beach California denied Hof's request to dismiss the $67 Million case against him. This summer Hof and Innerfire argued that they were not subject to California law because they never did any business in California, never signed any contracts in California, never sold products there and had no business or personal relationships whatsoever with the 39 Wim Hof method instructors who live in the state. The judge threw out their claims last Wednesday after reading over 10 hours of deposition as well as noting that, of course, Wim and innerfire do quite a bit of business in California. The plaintiff's attorney Scott Brust has filed for sanctions amounting to $33,000 for Innerfire's apparent perjury.   After the ruling, Innerfire sent out a newsletter asking their instructors for legal advice.

Second, on Saturday the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant ran a major investigative feature on Hof and Innerfire (here's a translation). In it reporter Anneke Stoffelen interviewed family members of victims who drowned, got Enahm on the record making bizarre statements and showed how Innerfire had ignored cases of injury and death for years without taking any corrective actions other than occasional warnings.  

I found this quote quite telling "' According to his son Enahm Hof, Innerfire has started warning about this in all official instruction videos since 2015. The question is whether that message will also get through, if the elements of water and breathing exercises are mixed up on social media."

After all, people started drowning while performing the method back in 2015 and Volkskrant notes that every time victims approached Innerfire to help make the method safer, they were rebuffed and in some cases even threatened. This leads me to wonder how many more cases than the 18 that I've documented there really are. Moreover, how many cases does Innerfire know about and chooses not to reveal?