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
First of all I would like to thank you all for your patience with me. I am not a troll, I wish I wasn't serious, as this is driving me crazy too.
Maybe this is the strangest thread you've seen, but it just shows the diversity of people... Or my difference from other people haha.
When you go face up underwater and do absolutely nothing, water starts filling up your nostril area, then it goes to the nose cavity through the nasal passages, from there it flows forward to your throat and sinuses. Every person has the ability to close their throat and sinuses, but that doesn't help preventing the water from getting into the nose cavity! Some people have the ability to close their nasal passages anatomically, but the majority can only do this with breath control, by "catching" the water at the entrance of the nasal passage and not letting it flowing further, by keeping there an unreleased bubble.
You don't only feel when water fills up your nose cavity when face up, you can also see it. Because little bubbles come out of your nose during the process, indicating that the water is pushing air out of the nose cavity and takes its place.
When my acquaintances go face-up underwater, you don't see a single bubble leaving their nose, which means the air and the water goes NOWHERE from there, which means they somehow apply a pressure which keeps water out. But only a pressure big enough not to let water in, and small enough not to release a bubble (thus, not wasting their air, which is as I said, awesome, regarding full pool lenght dolphins on your back underwater. What makes it even more wonderful to me that they do it by themselves, without any equipments. It is a marvellous skill that requires sophisticated breath control.). When they surface, they do not have to clear their nose as no water comes out if they start blowing out air.
In the youtube video, they don't let water in their nose cavity to be filled up. They start exhaling bubbles strongly, then suddenly stopping the bubbles and catching the water at the entrance of the nasal passages, preventing it from getting in, but not releasing a bubble afterwards.
I could show you a lot of youtube videos on this, but I am not sure how many videos I am allowed to post. I would like to show you some examples, so if you'd like to and you're curious, type the following words into the youtube search and you'll see what I mean:
underwater living (Ryan Bartholomev's channel)
underwater challenge (Brian K's channel)
floating face up (Cafeinteraction's channel)
underwater horror prank (just for laughs gag's channel)
apnea inversa senza ossigeno (David Leonardo Galasso's channel)
mowgli staredown challenge (underwater) (Challenge Accepted channel)
In some of these videos, surfacing can be also seen (you won't see gallons of water coming outta the nose after the surface)
First of all I would like to thank you all for your patience with me. I am not a troll, I wish I wasn't serious, as this is driving me crazy too.
Maybe this is the strangest thread you've seen, but it just shows the diversity of people... Or my difference from other people haha.
When you go face up underwater and do absolutely nothing, water starts filling up your nostril area, then it goes to the nose cavity through the nasal passages, from there it flows forward to your throat and sinuses. Every person has the ability to close their throat and sinuses, but that doesn't help preventing the water from getting into the nose cavity! Some people have the ability to close their nasal passages anatomically, but the majority can only do this with breath control, by "catching" the water at the entrance of the nasal passage and not letting it flowing further, by keeping there an unreleased bubble.
You don't only feel when water fills up your nose cavity when face up, you can also see it. Because little bubbles come out of your nose during the process, indicating that the water is pushing air out of the nose cavity and takes its place.
When my acquaintances go face-up underwater, you don't see a single bubble leaving their nose, which means the air and the water goes NOWHERE from there, which means they somehow apply a pressure which keeps water out. But only a pressure big enough not to let water in, and small enough not to release a bubble (thus, not wasting their air, which is as I said, awesome, regarding full pool lenght dolphins on your back underwater. What makes it even more wonderful to me that they do it by themselves, without any equipments. It is a marvellous skill that requires sophisticated breath control.). When they surface, they do not have to clear their nose as no water comes out if they start blowing out air.
In the youtube video, they don't let water in their nose cavity to be filled up. They start exhaling bubbles strongly, then suddenly stopping the bubbles and catching the water at the entrance of the nasal passages, preventing it from getting in, but not releasing a bubble afterwards.
I could show you a lot of youtube videos on this, but I am not sure how many videos I am allowed to post. I would like to show you some examples, so if you'd like to and you're curious, type the following words into the youtube search and you'll see what I mean:
underwater living (Ryan Bartholomev's channel)
underwater challenge (Brian K's channel)
floating face up (Cafeinteraction's channel)
underwater horror prank (just for laughs gag's channel)
apnea inversa senza ossigeno (David Leonardo Galasso's channel)
mowgli staredown challenge (underwater) (Challenge Accepted channel)
In some of these videos, surfacing can be also seen (you won't see gallons of water coming outta the nose after the surface)
