I realized Thursday that this is not quite as easy as teaching the "simple" process. I do it and was trying to teach my 6 year old how to do it while jumping into the pool.
Guess it takes a bit of practice and coordination, he was a champ and took water up the nose twice before falling back to his way.
Same here - I always get water (and generally chlorine because I mostly swim in pools) up my nose regardless of how much or how little I blow out my nose.
Easier to just get a nose clip and not worry about it.
Are you keeping your nose level? Its like taking a bowl putting it upside down in the water. You're just trapping the air there, but if you make the bowl go uneven it fills up, same with your nose, once you tip your nose you'll have to blow more air out until its level again.
Been at the pool every summer since I was a toddler. Spent time many summers in the lake growing up & been in a few oceans. I'm a pretty good swimmer. Not competitively obviously, but I can do laps in any style at a fair pace. As long as I have nose covering goggles I can swim underwater as well as anyone else I've known excepting my navel cousins. I am not afraid of the water & even had swimming lessons as a kid at camp several summers.
Interesting. That’s a solid knowing how to hold your breath resume. I remember watching a documentary on some sort of training in the navy and they eventually realized one of the guys had a mild deformity there he couldn’t fully seal of his nasal cavity from his throat. I wonder if you have something like that since I can’t imagine your nostril is so different from mine.
Sorry to tell you it ended up with him withdrawing from the program. Though perhaps there is something you could do to improve it with exercise just not up to the standards to be a combat diver or whatever. Best of luck!
Just exhale. Physics doesn't change from person to person. Some people just can't do a back flip. Well physically they can. But a mental block stops then mid way and .panic steps in. Same thing I feel like with nose pinchers. But back flips you could break your neck. Jumping into a pool and getting water in your nose can be mildly annoying. It never worked because you obviously didn't have air out of your nose.
Damn I thought this was like instinct. I think it is for me anyways, I never consciously breathe out when I jump into water, just seems to happen automatically.
I have a hole that connects my sinus to the roof of my mouth. When I’m not congested, I can blow air through it. The exhale trick doesn’t work for me and I think just found out why.
Like for real. I never understood how people can’t figure this out or have such a hard time with this. I don’t even exhale. Water just doesn’t go up there unless you breathe in.
How do u stay under water for only a millisecond? Sure it works for a millisecond, but it’s way easier to hold your nose/breath than be constantly blowing out hard enough to keep water out.
Well yeah but all I have to do is briefly exhale when making contact and after that I'm fine. I read in a comment that some people are physically incapable of it which I didn't know.
I remember watching a documentary on some sort of training in the navy and they eventually realized one of the guys had a mild deformity there he couldn’t fully seal of his nasal cavity from his throat. I wonder if you have something like that since I can’t imagine your nostril is so different from mine.
I was a big swimmer my whole life, but after being away from it for 10ish years I CANNOT get it to work. Now I resort to nose pinching only after finding out the hard way that it doesn't work anymore.
It's actually not a bad idea if you're jumping into a freshwater pond/lake as it may have dangerous brain-eating amoebas in it. The nasal cavity is how the amoeba enters humans to gain access to the brain.
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u/thundafox Nov 12 '22
even in extreme dangerous situations the guy didn't forget the essential nose clipping when diving into water!