Many beginners are told that the way to learn breathing is to put their nose and mouth in a big bowl of water. I may have tried it once and didn't like it at all (granted my bowl was not very big ;)) and didn't think it could help learning breathing in swimming. Breathing in a bowl of water and breathing while swimming freestyle--when you are in continuous motion--are so different. So I wonder, did most of you learn breathing this way?
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Never heard of this training method, but I imagine the goal is just to get them familiar with blowing bubbles out all the time while under water so that water doesn't come into your nose. Then you can get to the point where you know how to just hold the pressure in your nose just at the point where you aren't blowing bubbles out, but you aren't letting water in either.
I find this is one of the hardest things that early beginner swimmers have to get down and perhaps practicing in a bowl of water lets them not deal with the other issues of timing their strokes, etc. Most of the people I have seen that dont know how to keep water out by blowing air out will never get their stroke because they keep getting water in their nose, etc.
Never heard of this training method, but I imagine the goal is just to get them familiar with blowing bubbles out all the time while under water so that water doesn't come into your nose. Then you can get to the point where you know how to just hold the pressure in your nose just at the point where you aren't blowing bubbles out, but you aren't letting water in either.
I find this is one of the hardest things that early beginner swimmers have to get down and perhaps practicing in a bowl of water lets them not deal with the other issues of timing their strokes, etc. Most of the people I have seen that dont know how to keep water out by blowing air out will never get their stroke because they keep getting water in their nose, etc.
