Your breath up method

[clambake 50]

I am sorta new to freediving and many have mentioned a freedive course for safety and of course for freediving techniques. A few friends have taken different courses, and breathing methods vary...what is your method to breath up before you submerge?

[scubasteve311]

Personally I try to fart as hard as possible to allow more air into my lungs.

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[Fat Larry]

Originally Posted by scubasteve311

Personally I try to fart as hard as possible to allow more air into my lungs.

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You must be from the "five meters down with a generic aloy pipe gun" club thats so popular around my parts.

They don't over think things as they prefer not to think at all

[Marcus]

Yea, you're going to want to breath in...then out. Repeat. But seriously...deep, slow, and don't hyperventilate. 3 or 4 once relaxed and slowed down your heart beat thru concentration is the way I work. Stay calm and move efficiently,

[Fat Larry]

Originally Posted by Marcus

Yea, you're going to want to breath in...then out. Repeat. But seriously...deep, slow, and don't hyperventilate. 3 or 4 once relaxed and slowed down your heart beat thru concentration is the way I work. Stay calm and move efficiently,

Great advice.

I did nearly 30m on day three of my into freediving course with Apnea Total and that was common I believe as a few other students did similar depths.

Their breath up was quite technical involving several cycles of long inhales and exhales mixed with what they called flushing breaths... I believe it was thought to be mild hyper ventilation by some in the freediving world.

I don't know about that but it was bloody relaxing.. if you want to get students involved relaxed and seeing results fast I could certainly see why you'd do it but I never use it spearing and don't do much other then focus on relaxing and taking a few long deep breaths if I think about breathing at all. Works fine for me doing sub 1.5 min/20m spear diving.

Would love to know what those med spearos shooting fish at 60m are doing..

[RBainer]

Originally Posted by Fat Larry

Great advice.

I did nearly 30m on day three of my into freediving course with Apnea Total and that was common I believe as a few other students did similar depths.

Their breath up was quite technical involving several cycles of long inhales and exhales mixed with what they called flushing breaths... I believe it was thought to be mild hyper ventilation by some in the freediving world.

I don't know about that but it was bloody relaxing.. if you want to get students involved relaxed and seeing results fast I could certainly see why you'd do it but I never use it spearing and don't do much other then focus on relaxing and taking a few long deep breaths if I think about breathing at all. Works fine for me doing sub 1.5 min/20m spear diving.

Would love to know what those med spearos shooting fish at 60m are doing..

those flushing breaths you are referring to are called purges and for deeper dives past 50m you can few add packs and the end of breathe up .

[bleu]

If you have any safety related questions never hesitate to call me. I will happily coach you through anything I can to make you a safer diver.

[eric3532]

I'm new here and I have a related question. When I was taught to free dive I was told to first take 4s inhale / 2s pause / 8s exhale / 2s pause breaths to relax and then take 2-3 full breaths.
My experience doing the first relaxing breaths is that instead of lowering my heart rate it would increase it from 56bpm - 66bpm and decreasing my SpO2 by a few percents. Is this normal? Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?