Okay! So Frenzel Equalisation...
Using Valsalva which is the standard method of...
exhaling with your lungs against your pinched nose and forcing air your ears...
That method starts to fail
somewhere between 20 and 30 meters deep... It's fine up to 20 meters but beyond
that it starts becoming more and more difficult and from 30 onwards
it's impossible. The reason for this is because as we dive down, the water
compresses our lungs and our lungs get smaller and smaller and smaller and then
once they reach a point where they're very compressed it feels like we have no
air left
to push, to push up into the ears, so we need to use the Frenzel.
Okay! So step one to do the the Frenzel is to get air into your mouth
it's just still about 20 meters you may be able to exhale and get air into your mouth
if you're getting deeper...um.. is 25 meters around there
you may suck your stomach in, and then try to get some air to mouth.
See my cheeks bulging!
You suck your stomach in and up to kind of push the air from your lungs
into your mouth.
So that was it Step 1: Get air into your mouth.
Step 2: You need to lock your throat,
close your throat so that the air cannot escape back down into your lungs.
An easy way to learn how to close your throat is to maybe take a take a breath
then exhale with your mouth open and then stop the air from coming out of your
lungs while your mouth is still open by making a... Huh!
sounds so... uhh..huh... uhh..huh
That is closing your throat. Ok, So once... ...Step 1: Get the air into your mouth.
Step 2: Close up throat. We pinch our nose...
we pinch our nose... and then we use our tongue as a piston...
to push the air into our into our ears.
So using the tongue as a piston is the difficult part... Nope?
I am trying to show you how you stand... you close your throat... Huh!
you see how I was using my tongue to do this motion.. to pushing and...
as I was pushing upper my tongue I can feel the air going into my ears.
You should get you want... yeah! Pop! and then the other ear: Pop! And once you've
got that feeling of fullness in your ears
then you know you have equalised successfully.
So let's go through it one more time:
1) Do the mouth fill air into your mouth. 2) Close your throat.
Your nose pinched...
and use the tongue as a piston to push into your ears.
Okay! If you're still not sure if you´re doing the Frenzel correctly...
one method to try
is to exhale all the air... all the air! out of your lungs...
Then use air in your mouth to try to do the Frenzel.
The reason why do you need exhale all the air is because
if you have no air in your lungs
then there's no way that you can do the Valsalva.
Maybe even try exhale all the air out of your lungs, then try to do the Valsalva.
If you can't do it , then your lungs are completely empty.
So if you can equalise with the Frenzel with empty lungs then you're doing
it correctly.
Alright! I hope that helps you guys do the Frenzel... Good luck!