elan
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Time when you inhale and exhale
Buoyancy and Breathing
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Time when you inhale and exhale
When you have your timing right, by the time you start to rise from inhaling, you are already exhaling. Inertia, and the resistance of the water, allow this to happen.
I think it is about monitoring, anticipating, and learning how and when to adjust for what is going to happen.
Once you start to ascend, you will continue to ascend until you do something about it.
Once you start to descend, you will continue to descend until you do something about it.
As you practice, you will learn to monitor your buoyancy to see how quickly you are ascending or descending. You will them anticipate how quickly things will change. You will be able to inhale or exhale at the appropriate rate to accommodate the anticipated rate of change. You can slow your change, stop it, or reverse it through that process, depending upon how much and how quickly you adjust your breathing.
It just takes practice.
Buoyant1
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I agree!! Once I stopped thinking about breathing, and worrying about sucking a tank dry, my breathing and air consumption got MUCH better!
The first thing I did was stop renting 80's and start renting either 119's or 120's. Once I did that, I stopped worrying about getting a specific time out of a cylinder of air, and stopped thinking about the whole breathe in-breathe out concept, and just let it happen! A. I started enjoying my dives, and B. my air consumption improved on it's own.
If you breathe naturally, you'll be fine! It's just breathing, there should be no thought process behind it really.
Hank49
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5 feet of water and a reference point. As lame as many may say this is, try the PADI buddha hover. Look at particles in the water as a reference. If you can keep that one little particle right off your nose, you got it.
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