Hey tinaffy
Do a little google search and look up 2 things
1) Epiglottis
2) Soft Palate
In order to solve this problem you'll need to be able to control both. The epiglottis, when closed, holds your breath from the throat and down.
The soft palate, when closed hold your breath from the nose down. Closing the soft palate prevents you from breathing through your nose, where as closing the epiglottis prevents you from breathing all together.
When you're breathing through your reg you'll need to keep your soft palate closed to prevent breathing through your nose.
A nice exercise is to keep your mouth closed and puff up your cheeks. Keep blowing out your mouth but with your mouth closed so your cheeks are puffed up. Now purse your lips quickly and you should then be exhaling through your mouth. If you feel a pause then you were using your epiglottis.
Or if you were unable to do this without exhaling through your nose, then you don't have soft palate control.
Keep doing this but alternate between releasing your breath through your mouth and through your nose. Your cheeks should stay puffed until you exhale.
There are surprisingly a lot of articles about soft palate control. Try a google search.
For one more particular to diving you can try the Frenzel technique
It's an equalization method which requires control of your soft palate and epiglottis. Usually in a tutorial there'll be a step by step process on how to gain control of both, before going into the actual equalization method.
Hope this helps
Do a little google search and look up 2 things
1) Epiglottis
2) Soft Palate
In order to solve this problem you'll need to be able to control both. The epiglottis, when closed, holds your breath from the throat and down.
The soft palate, when closed hold your breath from the nose down. Closing the soft palate prevents you from breathing through your nose, where as closing the epiglottis prevents you from breathing all together.
When you're breathing through your reg you'll need to keep your soft palate closed to prevent breathing through your nose.
A nice exercise is to keep your mouth closed and puff up your cheeks. Keep blowing out your mouth but with your mouth closed so your cheeks are puffed up. Now purse your lips quickly and you should then be exhaling through your mouth. If you feel a pause then you were using your epiglottis.
Or if you were unable to do this without exhaling through your nose, then you don't have soft palate control.
Keep doing this but alternate between releasing your breath through your mouth and through your nose. Your cheeks should stay puffed until you exhale.
There are surprisingly a lot of articles about soft palate control. Try a google search.
For one more particular to diving you can try the Frenzel technique
It's an equalization method which requires control of your soft palate and epiglottis. Usually in a tutorial there'll be a step by step process on how to gain control of both, before going into the actual equalization method.
Hope this helps