They pick up dates in freezing ice baths — and prefer it to flirting in bars

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They pick up dates in freezing ice baths — and prefer it to flirting in bars
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A Venice ice bath studio played matchmaker to more than 100 singles, inviting them to speed date in cold plunge pools. Did things heat up in the freezing cold?

Ari Gootnick isn’t new to ice baths, but he never gets used to the shock of immersing his body into 40- something-degree water. So when the 29-year-old who works in tech plunged into an ice bath on a speed date, “It was a welcome distraction,” he said. “It was much easier to plunge with someone else,” Gootnick said. He’s one of more than 100 people who participated in a novel ice bath speed dating experiment at IcePass L.A.

chief spirit officer Kyle Cassidy provided icebreaker questions like, “What does love mean to you?” and “When do you feel most alive?” “They need to be deep questions that help people listen and understand the true light in the person they’re connecting with,” said Cassidy, who met his fiancée at a meditation and breathwork studio in Playa Vista.

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