Snorkeling Techniques & Tips : Free-Diving Tips & Techniques for Beginners

[MegaRocketLaunch]

lol kevorkian!!! hes an assited suicidal person... but hes in jail!!

[talormade360]

No need to hold your nose, just click your ears internally.

[WillBeSubscribing]

Recorded with a cucumber

[mrmups]

Search Dr Kay - Divers Ear He explains the Frenzel Method of equalisation. very efficient

[joseph14295]

whenever i try this it never works for me. can anyone help me on what i should do?

[Tarzan07330]

@joseph14295 if you have any mucous build up at all, you will not be able to equalize your ears...at least safely. this may be a reason why you can't. you may want to try mixing different techniques to equalize. swallowing, wiggling your jaw, blowing through your pinched nose. all are acceptable. just like "unplugging" your ears when you go up and down in elevation in a car or plane.

[joseph14295]

@Tarzan07330 thanks 

[Born2Die83]

@joseph14295 2 tTry decending slower. Also try doing shallow dives, equalise at a shallow depth, then return to the surface. Then do the dive again, but now try and go half a meter deeper, keep repeating until you are comfortable. For me, before i can free diver deep (for me deep is like... 10 meters) it would take me about 30 mins or more of adjusting to the pressure at shallower depths, 3 meters, 5 meters, 6 meters, etc.

[TheNewTwinkieLord]

@joseph14295 i scuba dive so what i usually do might be a little harder for you, depends on what youre, but what tarzan said is true but sometimes i that wont work for me, all i do is look up and try and clear my ears, idk why it works but i just look up at the surface and clear them, maybe because im stretching my neck muscles or something and it allows the ears to relax, all i know it feels fucking great to finally get that sweet feeling after they clear

[mohammadrp2]

his surface dive is awesome too ...

[harrysha3]

he forgot to tell you  what to do with mouth pieice when going down

[lOverbOytx1]

blowing through your ears will only relive the pressure for a short distance like 2 metre! Won't work if you diving further down! Pressure is to strong! Unless you can continuosly blow air through your ears!

[fatfist]

Equalization must be performed at the surface, BEFORE even starting your descent.

Then at every 5 ft intervals as you go deeper.

People wrongly assume that is should be done when they start to feel pressure. By then it's way too late!

[jeffdon4]

@fatfist i never knew that. I always did it when i went down. why do you do it at the surface?

[fatfist]

@jeffdon4

Because once you submerge, the pressure of the water (even at say, 5 ft) will push your eardrums in (concave). This makes it much harder now to push them out and straighten them for equalization.

But if you do it at the surface, your eardrums will be pushed out (convex), and as you descend, the pressure will push them inwards to straighten them, but you continue to equalize by pushing them out every 5 ft or so.

[prekartist]

Yeah don't forget to purge the snorkel.... n00bs.

[MsGogo68]

i still can't do it whit out my ears killing me after

[alari123]

this is the first time expertvillage helped me, i had trouble with the ears,cuz as soon as i went under 3 meters my ears started pounding. ty alot

[Warfreak57]

fail cause he have snorkel but he go underwater he might don't have air

[mtniiranen]

Iv done this now for one summer (changed from scuba to apnea) and can go below 20m. Its lots of fun but seems that things come only after practicing, practicing and practicing.

[joedicki321]

do ear plugs relive the pressure ... ? cuz im going on holidy tuesday too tenerife and am going snorkeling and i brought some ear plugs so does it relive the pressure cuz thats the only reason i broght them tbh

[BlueOnCa]

@joedicki321 dont bring plugs... if you can.. the way you yawn you will relax your jaw muscle.. if you can do the relaxing without yawning that is the proper way of equalizing

[jgomes1992]

your not supposed 2 pinch ur nose ur supposed 2 push ur maks and blow out ur nose if u go deep enough ur nose will bruse ur nose

[SatoTM3]

just dont dive deep >.<

[mrcookie75]

how do i equalize? i keep trying but i cant. i think im just scared

[trakkaton]

@mrcookie75

Swallowing and shifting your lower jaw in front can help. Start as early as you can, when you don't even feel the pressure yet. Practise on land. If all doesn't help see a ENT doc.

[snigel4321]

Get an underwater camera, seriously

[grimofhell]

lol with the snorkel on, that won't help much xD almost suicide where i do free diving. Imagine getting getting middle ear barotrauma over 50ft; a beginner might go on shock caused by the intense pain and might drown if not aided immediately. I take this problem very seriously, so... expert village is...more like noob village.

[zeuserx]

EXPERT VILLAGE SUCKS! you don't equalize with the snorkel in your mouth dumbasses!!!

I'm a freediver and snorkel quite a bit. you just don't equalize this way... PERIOD!

This is the 3rd "EXPERT VILLAGE" video I've seen where they get it all wrong!

[bestabac]

then how do u equalize

[zeuserx]

@bestabac Try the Frenzel maneuver (read wikipedia), it uses up less air and is better suited for deeper dives. What's show in this video is the Valsalva maneuver, which is still good at shallower depths but please... get the snorkel out of your mouth. Expert village screwed up on this one!!!!

[bestabac]

@zeuserx like when u pinch your nose and blow out and if that is true then i found that out accidentally

[223o]

i spearfish most days, will my breathe holding increase if i keep doing dives that push my limits or is there another exersize so that i can go deeper?

[zeuserx]

learn about freediving and the various techniques we use. A lot is just practice and there's plenty of technique involved. Take up yoga as well. The more relaxed you are, the less air you'll use up. Champion freedivers all do Yoga.

[Akueikyo]

One of the best advices I got was to run and do exercise without breathing so you can make your muscles and body work in an anaerobic environment (which means without air).

The more you practice this, the less tired you will get when diving, and of course, less oxygen consumption.

[mobbozz]

Bla Bla Bla... Bursting your eardrum aint dangerous, but pain full. It can lead to deafness.

But infarct many Pro free divers, such as a pearl divers. Will permanently burst there eardrums to save air consumption. Because you waist air for every equalizing.

[Carlsarv]

Cool, didnt know u could do that. I it dangerous if you dont and go deep?

[Maui808SkinDiver]

yes its dangerous if you dont clear the pressure. you can burst your eardrum which obviously isnt good. dive safe

[Carlsarv]

Oh, ok. Thanks for the help.

[zeuserx]

Very dangerous. There are several equalisation techniques you can use. This one is the simplest but not the best (it uses up too much air).

[DAb3stBF]

i got a question plz answer like wen u go under water wat i f u bring the hole mask down there do u have to blow the water out wen u come back up

[MrBlastfire]

pretty nice

[hectorisriva]

wara diver outstanding mate.......wara foolish do u call those stooges expert village....

[Zachry86]

I think its bad that they have no warning that most/many of the accidents of damage to the eardrum is done by ear clearing like that. Not by the dive. Be careful when you clear your ears. Do it "slowly"

[liz2porter]

@Zachry86 another technique is to push you tongue to the top of your mouth and swallow, I prefer this way.

[4fifty8]

@Zachry86 that's why you don't learn from the internet! go do a course

[Lehmann108]

What an awful surface dive! You have to fold over more quickly and a greater length of your legs will be in the air and drive you down more quickly.

[daveawebber]

i have a perforated ear drum i can tell you this aint gona work

[JoelThedude4u]

you should get it fixed, it should heal and seal on its own if it doesnt you can get a ENT to fix it for you. There's also ProEar 2000 mask check it out.

[arseniy0410]

amateur - stick your feet in the air LMAO

lol Ben half man half fish

only piece i wear is small goggles to see

NOTHING ELSE

[metabolife]

it's really all you need unless you're fishing

[babapoopoo]

go ben!! ; p

[USEBILLERGUNS]

poop

[roshator]

thanks for wasting me time

[orcanjus]

I people are learning f@#$?n nothing, WHY WAYTCH? I only need sound on this computer, and I'm good. See ya soon!

[lesterww]

wow.. I have learned absolutely nothing.

[ariqisrockin231]

looooserrr

[DieHardCalFan]

or u could just were fukin earplugs

[tbunch2112]

Earplugs can't be used for diving. If they actually manage to keep the water pressure out they will create an unequalized air cavity. Either the plug will be pulled into your ear canal causing injury our your tympanic membrane will blow out.

[00Avenger17]

@tbunch2112  o.O oww xD

[aR3DF0Xa]

@tbunch2112 there are plugs made for diving but even they are unreliable most of the people i know who have used them have ended up losing them theres probably twenty of em floating somewhere around aliwal shoal by now lol

[liz2porter]

@tbunch2112 he's not using earplugs, what are you on about?

[tbunch2112]

@liz2porter I'm on about the commenter saying you should use earplugs instead of equalizing. I realize the diver in the video is smarter than that.

[willibanger]

can they be used for snorkeling /

[fscher]

owned?

[Kyrowire]

owned.

[antoniopuerto92]

its called purging

[zeuserx]

Nope! It's called equalizing.

[InterestingFactsorg]

Ben sucks. That is not how you start your dive from the surface.

[mafaz22]

I can free dive upto 18m! At first i had problems wit the ear bt after a week of goin down it got ok:D

[narutoxman]

thanks

[anne1024]

Pretty useless... Nothing more than what is pretty obvious

[chulhochang]

i'm glad you put up the video. i've learned it a little differently, where if you were to breakdown the movements of the surface dive, after you bend at your waist, you raise only one leg...not two...if you raise your left, then you dive with your right hand leading. the single raised leg is suppose to be in position for the kick, but not waste movements and therefore oxygen.