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Why not? There's a forum for everything else.
I'd like it, I enjoy free diving but like many people who've started free diving I'd like to be better and more comfortable free diving.
holdingmybreath
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A good way to work on the comfort is to get out there and get used to it. I struggle with the darkness but each time I get into it, it gets easier and easier. When I say darkness.. I mean BLACK!! to the point of not being able to see a white rope in front of your face. I've heard diving with your eyes shut can help.. I'll try that this weekend. I know having lights on the drop line help me.DORSETBOY:
There.. that almost sounds like the start of a freediving forum...
OBXDIVEGUY
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I've been free diving around the anchor lines while helping folks out a bit. What is a typical free diver depth most people can get to?
While a swimmer in college, we used to do what we called static hypoxic sets. Basically breath control practice. We would do a dead man's float with incremental intervals going up to 3 minutes. Granted, we didn't move a muscle except for the occasional thumbs up every 20 or so seconds, but that has gotten me interested in free diving. I'd love to learn more on a forum!
While a swimmer in college, we used to do what we called static hypoxic sets. Basically breath control practice. We would do a dead man's float with incremental intervals going up to 3 minutes. Granted, we didn't move a muscle except for the occasional thumbs up every 20 or so seconds, but that has gotten me interested in free diving. I'd love to learn more on a forum!
holdingmybreath
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who knows.. but maybe a starting point, sort of an average, kinda a rule of thumb is about 3'/second (maybe slightly more than 3'/second depending on), down and back... so 60' down and back @ 3' sec is about 40 seconds, maybe less. You can see that for a dive to that depth it's not at all about holding your breath (unless you want to stay down there...) but more about being able to equalize your ears efficiently, quickly, and inverted.OBXDIVEGUY:
Getting to a 3min. breath hold is fairly easy for most. Well, o.k. it kinda hurts the first time.
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OBXDIVEGUY:
A good measure of how deep you can go is to hold your breath while walking a preset distance. If you can comfortably hold your breath while walking 50 feet you can likely do a 25 foot freedive. This is one of the ways i train, the only factor you can't simulate by doing this is the pressure. You can however simulate the workload on the muscles and the apnea function.
Have you ever heard of 02 and CO2 tables, a great way to train! I hope it goes without saying, however, to always train with a partner.
scubafool
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What about O2 & CO2 tables for free diving? New one for me.
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scubafool:
A table is a set sequence of statics/rests - CO2 table is same length static with decreasing rest, O2 table is same length rest with increasing static and exhale table is the same as O2 but after blowing as much air out as you can. For example, with CO2 table you can do a consistent minute breath hold and between each breath hold reduce your recovery time soooo 1 min hold/1 min rest,,,1 min hold/50 sec rest..1 min hold/40 sec rest etc... O2 table as example 1 min hold/1min rest....1:15 hold/1min rest...1 :30 hold/1min rest etc... and the exhale table simply hurts!!!
scubafool
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OK, I THINK I sorta understand. I always followed a five minute cycle when I was diving near my limits or repetitive, which was most of the time.
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