Sorry for the lengthy title, but I am looking for advice on how to improve my underwater dolphin kick on my back, without expelling all my breath out of my nose in order to keep water out of my nose.
In this video, the girl in the beginning is not expelling air out of her nose while kicking on her back. Then later, the guy does expel air out of his nose, but he must go about 10-15 yards underwater.
erg.goswim.tv/.../backstroke---underwater-dolphin---size.html
I only seem to be able to go 5, maybe 10 yards (with fresh lungs), but I always have to expel air out of my nose or else I get water in the brain.
Any advice on how I can not expel water out of my nose to conserve my breath and kick longer underwater?
Thanks!
if a nose clip is uncomfortable, try inserting a cocktail olive in each nostril... make certain that they are packed in brine and not oil as the latter are quite slippery and will displace with the slightest exhalation pressure.
If oil is your only option, be careful to not inhale accidently!
when you're finished with your backstroke set, insert toothpick, pry out, and enjoy a tasty little snack!
Or two. Yuck.:afraid:
Congratulations! You found ONE other post from TEN YEARS AGO where someone else mentioned it......again in a non-competitive environment. Those are some serious skills you have there. You should put them to work helping out the flat Earthers convince the rest of the population of their infinite wisdom.
Becuase, you know, the world just LOVES a know-it-all.
If we all tell you you are right, will you just go away?
I know I didn't (couldn't). ;)
I couldn't watch it embedded but I searched it on YouTube. Everybody in the race is either blowing out their nose, wearing a clip, or covering their nose with their upper lip.
All things that this person who is "never wrong" rejects as acceptable ways to be on your back underwater.
I've never been wrong. Yes, his post is about exhaling just enough to have a bubble trapped rofl, which practically doesn't count as full exhalation as no air leaves his nostrils. That was my point all along. But you narrow-minded folks just wouldn't listen, just because you've never tried this doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And since this is a topic about exactly the same issue, I have the right to post and justify my claims for which I was cast away in the other topic lol. At least 70% of those who can swim and are not afraid to go underwater can do this, as 2 professional doctors have already confirmed to me that this ability is a natural reflex dependent on the central neural system, which means those people who cannot do it either have nasal health or respiratory system issues, or their central neural system is micro-damaged on the exact spot that is responsible for this ability.
Even one of you guys admitted that you could do it, yet still insist on denying the existence of this thing...
