Hi all,
First of all, if there's already a thread concerning this issue, I would like to say sorry for opening an already existing topic, but also would like to ask the moderators to link me the topic discussing this, before closing this thread.
The thing I wanna learn is being face-up underwater without having water in my nose but also without releasing a bubble, using breath control. (not nose clips, not my lips, not anything else, I wanna do this with breath control)
I have been practising this a lot now. Yet still can't manage to do it. All my acquaintances who ever tried or practiced it and can do it say that it is easy and they didn't need to practice it for too long. I can do it vertically, btw. So no, before you say, I am not instinctively sucking in water.
What I start to think is that what prevents me from being able to do this is that I have adenoids. Most of the time I can barely breath through one of my nostrils, which makes an unbalance between the 2 nostrils and makes it impossible to even the pressure at the same time in both of them, resulting in flooding my nose in any way. I also realized that I can either blow very little bubbles, or stop my breathing out completely, but between the two, to apply a pressure which is enough to keep water out but not enough to release a bubble, is just impossible for me. There is a gap in the breathing out I cannot acquire. Even if I do, one of my nose gets flooded because of the give unevenity.
What makes me very sad is that all of my acquaintances who ever tried or practised this, could master it easily. I have been suffering with it now for so long.
But my fear is that with adenoid I won't be able to master this. Anyone any experiences on this one?
Any tips, suggestions on how to practice?
Thanks
If it is not easy, then how come that most of my acquaintances - who are not even (hobby) swimmers, neither they hit the water more than once a year in summer - can do it without a problem? ALL of them said, that they did not even have to practice it, it just came naturally / instinctively / automatically as a reflex... I am seriously starting to feel myself retarded enough because of being incapable to do it. Secondly, someone brought up a correspondence once about this, saying it is like learning to ride a bicycle and keep the balance on it with your body. Everyone can learn it in a day or two. This was a good similarity I think, as here it is about balance as well, and it is not even learning, because you cannot feel any progress when you are practicing it, it will "just happen" once, by itself. But not for me and I am really frustrated about this. I can not find any practising methods on the internet that are helpful, completely nothing, I have asked diving instructors, swim coaches, competition and master swimmers, they cannot say anything apart from "it is automatic". HELL, THEY CAN NOT EVEN EXPLAIN HOW THEY DO IT. How can you take credit for something you don't even know how your doing? That is not even real skill, because you did not have to understand it, you didn't have to work for it, it just happened by itself without you consciously intending it. And yet still... These people are better than me, despite the fact that I am much more diligent. Yet I still fail. Great. You know, the best part of it is that the more I go to the swimming pool and practise this crap and fail, the less I feel I will EVER be capable of doing it, which destroys my self-esteem and confidence even further, moreover, my mood to even go swimming completely vanishes. You cannot go to the swimming pool in a good mood if you know that what awaits you there is failure (and here comes the point:) IN THE THING, WHICH IS EASY FOR EVERYONE ELSE. (I haven't spoken to anyone in my life who ever tried this and couldn't master it in a day or two, even if they needed practise, but the majority who can do it did not even practise it, and the rest said: "I haven't tried that yet", but no one ever said to me that "oh yeah, I've been practising it for half a year, it's hard"). There has not been a SINGLE thing related to swimming I couldn't learn in my life. Because the thing I love the most in life is the water and being in the water. So this is really getting on my nerves massively now.
If it is not easy, then how come that most of my acquaintances - who are not even (hobby) swimmers, neither they hit the water more than once a year in summer - can do it without a problem? ALL of them said, that they did not even have to practice it, it just came naturally / instinctively / automatically as a reflex... I am seriously starting to feel myself retarded enough because of being incapable to do it. Secondly, someone brought up a correspondence once about this, saying it is like learning to ride a bicycle and keep the balance on it with your body. Everyone can learn it in a day or two. This was a good similarity I think, as here it is about balance as well, and it is not even learning, because you cannot feel any progress when you are practicing it, it will "just happen" once, by itself. But not for me and I am really frustrated about this. I can not find any practising methods on the internet that are helpful, completely nothing, I have asked diving instructors, swim coaches, competition and master swimmers, they cannot say anything apart from "it is automatic". HELL, THEY CAN NOT EVEN EXPLAIN HOW THEY DO IT. How can you take credit for something you don't even know how your doing? That is not even real skill, because you did not have to understand it, you didn't have to work for it, it just happened by itself without you consciously intending it. And yet still... These people are better than me, despite the fact that I am much more diligent. Yet I still fail. Great. You know, the best part of it is that the more I go to the swimming pool and practise this crap and fail, the less I feel I will EVER be capable of doing it, which destroys my self-esteem and confidence even further, moreover, my mood to even go swimming completely vanishes. You cannot go to the swimming pool in a good mood if you know that what awaits you there is failure (and here comes the point:) IN THE THING, WHICH IS EASY FOR EVERYONE ELSE. (I haven't spoken to anyone in my life who ever tried this and couldn't master it in a day or two, even if they needed practise, but the majority who can do it did not even practise it, and the rest said: "I haven't tried that yet", but no one ever said to me that "oh yeah, I've been practising it for half a year, it's hard"). There has not been a SINGLE thing related to swimming I couldn't learn in my life. Because the thing I love the most in life is the water and being in the water. So this is really getting on my nerves massively now.
