Ok! so when I started freedive I couldn´t equalise at all
I used to pinch my nose and blow...
Nothing would happen!
I tried it down, dive down
and after three meters my ears where killing me.
Didn´ t work!
If you have this problem, then I´ve made this video for you guys.
We´re going to use the Vasalva method to equalise that´s pinch your nose and blow.
If nothing happens
this is probably because your tubes are blocked,
because you´ve never used them before
and so no matter how hard you blow.
You just can´t equalise and when you´re in the water it just doesn´t work.
So open your tubes... to get them open...
you´ll need (to) try to wiggle your jaw...
drop, try it dropped jaw down...
as far as it can go... and wiggle from side to side.
You should do a little bit of a crackling in your ears.
Now try the Vasalva again!
Pinch your nose... Blow softly at first...
whole your jaw down and wiggle from side to side
and slowly increase the pressure that you´re blowing at.
I´m going to try it now!
I´ve got my one ear equalised and then my other ear equalised.
You normally have one first before the other one.
Once your one ear equalises you´ll feel the feeling of fullness...
keep equalising until... keep... blowing until both ears equalise.
Just keep doing that and keep trying to do that in front of your computer.
Practice doing that now...
and hopefully eventually you´ll get the feeling of fullness in both ears.
If you don´t have any feeling in either of your ears
then you haven´t equalised successfully.
Ok! The next problem is (that)
once you´ve done this in front of your computer,
sometimes you find it doesn´t work in the water.
This is because air in your body always wants to go up.
So when are we doing the Vasalva
and our head is up, or in the water and our head is up...
it´s easier for us to equalise because the summing (is) that this is your head....
the cap of the bottle of this is your head and actually wants to go up.
So it does want to go up into ears.
When you free dive, you duck dive head down... and look where the air goes...
to the top of the bottom.
Air does not want to go to where your head is.
This is your head and you´re diving down...
so often when you get in the water you try it you try to equalise doesn´t work.
One method that you can try that I used was to set up a float,
a line and a bottom wait and do pull down the rope
like I´m going to show you in this video.
Yeah! I learned to equalise doing this, using this method of pulling down a rope
because the advantage is that your head is always absolute quite easier to equalise.
Just pull down the rope pull down to one meter... do your equalisation...
pull your dough down...
wiggle your jaw... increase the pressure and feel your ears equalised...
and go down another meter.
Keep going until you reach your target depth of... let´s say 10 meters
and you can successfully equalise down to 10 meters with your head up.
Then switch it around! Try with your head down!
Probably one work the first time you do it but try go a meter...
See if you can equalise...
If you can´t do it, go down the rope again with your head up
all the way down to your target depth...
(let´s) say ten meters. Then try head down again and just keep going like that.
If it still doesn´t work there is another trick that I used that worked for me.
To get head down and add (to) this pack a little bit.
And packing is generally quite an advanced freediving technique.
you know, for guys that are going really deep....
(They) Gonna do something really extreme.
But I´ve felt for equalisation, packing a little bit, just pack a little bit
to increase the amount of air in your lungs,
it increases the pressure in your lungs, so it makes the air easier going to ears.
So... If you pack, maybe, just maybe five times...
and try again with the head up or head down it should work for you.
For me, I packed a little bit before I did my head down.
When I went... when I after I went head down... down the rope
I equalised... it was fine.
So to pack.... Don´t do it a lot! Just a couple of packs.
If you first take your fullest breath that you possibly can...
and then blow... sorry... A little bit like a fish there,
but I´ve took basically five mouthfuls of air that make your lungs
just a little bit fuller to the point that they´re just a little bit uncomfortable.
Don´t do to an extreme level!
I think five breaths is more than enough... and then try to equalise again.
The increased pressure in your lungs will make you gonna up to the ears.
Try that in a head-down position... going down the rope....
Hopefully you´ll be able to get further down the rope...
and you´ll start being able to equalize head down.
You can combine the packing method with the pulling the drawdown and wiggling.
Once you can pull down the rope...
just do a pull down and then start to kick down and see if you can equalise
while kicking down to the bottom.
One more thing:
When you´re on the rope or kicking down keep your head straight!
Try not to look at the bottom of the of the sea...
because nothing is straighten... It´s going to be harder to equalise.
Keep your head as leveled as possible and pack a little bit if necessary.
Remember the jaw wiggle... Remember to blow first softly
and slowly increase the pressure...
and I think you should be able to equalise soon.
Good luck! if it works for you leave me a comment
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