MichaelMc
Working toward Cenotes
For trim, another exercise is to hold a few pounds, likely 2-4 pounds of your needed lead, in your hand, and move it up and down your body to see what location gives you a neutral weight distribution. By neutral weight distribution I mean one where gravity is no longer trying to rotate you to head or feet down. This means you will be able to stay in a horizontal orientation without kicking, or stay in any other orientation you need to.
Once you find a position of your hands and lead that lets you not rotate, you need to find where to put that lead on your rig, or also shift ofter lead to achieve the same effect. This exercise ignores the fact that normally your arms would likely be out in front of you, but it is a more immediate way of seeing where you need your lead than needing to have all your lead in the pockets before seeing if some positioning seems to work.
It also gives you a bit of practice in staying still in a prefered orientation without kicking, by giving a bit of a crutch in being able to reposition the weight in your hand. Ultimately, shifting your likely negative fins and heels forward or back will let you stay horizontal, but learning that is much simpler if you have close to a neutral weight distribution.
The basic idea, though without tanks on, time 4:04:
+1 on recommending a BP/W and covering your skin underwater in the tropics.
Once you find a position of your hands and lead that lets you not rotate, you need to find where to put that lead on your rig, or also shift ofter lead to achieve the same effect. This exercise ignores the fact that normally your arms would likely be out in front of you, but it is a more immediate way of seeing where you need your lead than needing to have all your lead in the pockets before seeing if some positioning seems to work.
It also gives you a bit of practice in staying still in a prefered orientation without kicking, by giving a bit of a crutch in being able to reposition the weight in your hand. Ultimately, shifting your likely negative fins and heels forward or back will let you stay horizontal, but learning that is much simpler if you have close to a neutral weight distribution.
The basic idea, though without tanks on, time 4:04:
+1 on recommending a BP/W and covering your skin underwater in the tropics.