Help with mask clear in cold water

[SwimAway]

This might be ridiculous, but maybe try this:

Sitting in your chair, at home, just as comfortable as possible: Breath through your nose, and then stop it.

Can you do that? If so, start experimenting with how you are stopping/starting your ability to breath through your nose until you have a strong sense of what is going on and can control it in a comfortable setting.

The idea is that, if this is mental, then you are doing something. If you can learn to do it on demand, you can then learn to feel what is happening and control it better.

It is a bit like wiggling your ears. Everyone has the muscles to do it, but almost nobody has the muscle control to do it, but you can teach it to yourself.

Anyway, it is just an idea. Hope it helps.

 

[jakemaddox]

This might be ridiculous, but maybe try this:

Sitting in your chair, at home, just as comfortable as possible: Breath through your nose, and then stop it.

Can you do that? If so, start experimenting with how you are stopping/starting your ability to breath through your nose until you have a strong sense of what is going on and can control it in a comfortable setting.

The idea is that, if this is mental, then you are doing something. If you can learn to do it on demand, you can then learn to feel what is happening and control it better.

It is a bit like wiggling your ears. Everyone has the muscles to do it, but almost nobody has the muscle control to do it, but you can teach it to yourself.

Anyway, it is just an idea. Hope it helps.

Hey mate! I tried this and it does seem to have helped. I dived at the weekend and was able to do a fair amount of full flood clears, not the cleanest ones, but was without shooting up once.
I’m currently diving every week, so I’m going to make it a must to practise at the end of every dive.
Thanks for this tip!

 

[lexvil]

Sounds like it is mental.

I remember my dad teaching us children how to blow your nose. He just placed his hand firmly over the child"s mouth, denied them the ability to breath, and soon the snot came flying out. I haven't thought about that in years, it sounds a little brutal now, but I presume he used it on me and saw him do it to my younger siblings. LOL

Sort of like learning to swim…the hard part is getting out of the weighted sack.