5 Key Tips Make You a Better Scuba Diver - How to hold your breath

5 Key Tips Make You a Better Scuba Diver -  How to hold your breath 

Free diving is more than a sport or a discipline, it is a lifestyle and  a way of hunting that humans have practiced since the dawn of history.

In this article I’m going to show you 5 tips which can be applied to scuba diving in several ways that will help you become a more qualified, confident and ultimately better diver.

1-Work on your free fall 

When you dive, the pressure of the water compresses the air in your lungs, and ultimately the air will be so small that you will no longer flow, but you will sink. Free divers take advantage of this, and they let themselves sink which allows them to go to deeper and deeper depths without spending any effort.

The position in which you are in a free fall is incredibly important, it is important to maintain a rational body position to move much faster in water, but it also tends to have a huge effect on the way a person is mentally smells.

The relationship between body and mind when we hold our breath, how it is very difficult to control the mind but not as difficult to control the body. Ifin this article lls you are mentally stressed, it is really natural for your body to react to this stress and get tense or blocked, this is a normal part of our defense mechanism, then once your mind realizes that your body is under intense stress, it becomes more stressed it is a vicious circle.



Now it is very difficult to relax the mind once it becomes nervous or stressed, but it is not as difficult to relax the body or ideally never let the body be tense or stressed in the first place even if you feel it mentally.

So let's go back to our free fall during the free fall phase of the dive, which is pretty greedy to say, when most free divers break mentally, and they turn early and don't reach their target depth. Practicing this free fall position and learning to be incredibly comfortable in this position will allow you to remain more comfortable and more comfortable in this key phase of your dive.

So be sure to spend a lot of time perfecting and working on your free fall.

2-Don't over train

I see that a lot of divers finish their free diving lessons, they are super pumped up, they are stuck in training, it's great to see. But the thing about free diving training is that it's very easy to overdo it and burnout, trained up to three times a week and diving also counts as training, so do not train at the pool three nights a week, then go diving on the weekend which counts for four sessions.

In short, managing the discomfort of longer and longer breathing can tire a person too much, and you will stop wanting to train, you will stop wanting to train.

I also see divers trying tables and exercises that are just too difficult for them and that includes myself, I do it all the time and I haven't learned. However, the training tables and not intended to break a person, they are supposed to be a little difficult but always achievable.

Slow and steady snorkeling always wins the race, and if you keep your tables manageable if you don't push and push yourself constantly, you will have a constant progression as opposed to someone who pushes himself all the time, he will have quick bursts of progression, but then they will almost certainly stabilize and not progress or improve their BP for long periods of time.

3-Different types of finning 

In your free diving courses, you were taught how to ride from the hip with a slight tension in the knees so that your foot is always the farthest point in front of and behind your leg. This is the most efficient way to get from point A to point B. However, once you reach point B, power finning is no longer required.

This is the time when you can switch to a bike kick or a gentle kick to save energy. Even if you are on the way down, there must be a slope to your destination. We don't just switch off and then suddenly stop and start falling freely.

We feel strong at the beginning to overcome all this positive buoyancy, and the deeper you go, the softer your fins become until you finally don't need any fins at all. Ideally, you want to maintain the same descent rate for your entire dive, or at least for your entire descent.

At the beginning you need two strong fins, but if you are not so positive about swimming, you can make the fin softer and still maintain the same speed. Finally, you can adjust the thinning completely and keep the same speed. A fairly good descent rate is between zero and eight meters per second.

You usually reach the point where you can start your free fall, but still keep the same speed between 15 and 20 meters on the way down. The same applies to the way back. We were the strongest down there with all the negative buoyancy that weighs up from us, and then we get softer, the closer we get to the surface, especially when we become buoyant again.
Unrealistic goals.

4-Don’t set Unrealistic goals

 Progress slows the deeper you go and the longer you hold your breath, because within two days you can move from never-before-free life to diving to 20 meters. It is normal for you to think that this rate of progress continues, but it just does not.

The deeper you dive or the longer you hold your breath, the smaller the progress will be. It took me a whole year to get from diving from 90 to a hundred meters, and this year 2020 it took me a whole year to dive Go from diving at 105 meters to a whole year at 106 meters work out.

So, if you are more and more advanced, be aware that you are always making progress and getting better. It's just that the increments are smaller and you have to be happier with a few meters than with a lot.

5-Revisit your breath up

Number five, now number five is very important. Revisit your breath. Anyone who starts free diving for the first time has a tendency to hyperventilate. We all do it, it's natural, we don't start with a lot of control over our breathing when we first start free diving, and so our natural tendency is to breathe a little deeper and a little faster than we do need because it makes the actual dives easier.

Now that you have more control, pay attention to the way you breathe and make sure you are not hyperventilating. So after a while you can watch our breaths become a habit, and that's important to us. Make sure our habit doesn't hyperventilate.