How do you hold your breath longer underwater?

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How do you hold your breath longer underwater?

Postby LiveLoveSurf » Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:48 pm

how can improve holding my breath underwater for long amounts of time while being thrashed by the waves. I seem to sorta panic under the water?
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Postby pkbum » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:37 pm

relax is the key for staying alive in the washing machine.
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Postby pkbum » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:53 pm

oh and use your leash to pull you up to the surface.
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Postby PapaW » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:17 pm

Deffo Relax, it really is quite a pleasant experience when you relax!
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Postby garbarrage » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:32 pm

open your eyes and watch the bubbles, realise you can't get up until it lets you and that it WILL eventually let you up... then enjoy the ride.
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Postby Ged » Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:36 pm

If you want you can practice. People can train themselves to hold their breath for incredible ammounts of time. Some people can even slow down their heartbeats. Go to the swimming pool, and dive in and swim a length underwater, keep practising and eventually youll be doing 50 M easily. When I was in a swimming club there was a guy who could swim 100 M underwater. Relaxation is key.
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Postby RJD » Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:43 pm

Relax and count.

it may seem like a long time but in reality it'll be a few seconds.
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Postby parrysurf » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:37 am

Practice in a pool or at beach.....run under water with weight. Big wave training includes running rocks under water.

as all have said... just relaxing and not fighting the wave will get you some extra time.

as garbarrage said.. enjoy the ride
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Postby kitesurfer » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:54 am

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Postby phillwilson » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:02 pm

I like to relax to the point of going slightly limp...

if i try to hold my body against the general force of the wave i find i get out of breath, if i just go floppy and tuck my arms over my head and ears i kind of cannonball til i feel the power of the wave disapate by which point im nearly always right at the surface anyway.
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Postby rich r » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:53 pm

Yep, I curl up and let it bumper me about. Then pop up, grab a quick breath and hope that you're not in the middle of a 5 wave set of hold-downs.
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Postby Milo » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:27 pm

Don`t fall off :wink:
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Postby twerked » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:43 pm

garbarrage wrote:open your eyes and watch the bubbles, realise you can't get up until it lets you and that it WILL eventually let you up... then enjoy the ride.


do a lot of yall open your eyes underwater? personally, i can't, i have contacts. i usually can find which way is up...sometimes in a big tumble it's a little disorientating, but i make it okay. but, does it really help if you open your eyes?
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Postby miamisurfer » Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:20 am

I open my eyes. My friend doesn't wear his contacts when he goes in, are you supposed to. opening your eyes doesn't really help when you fall but it makes a huge difference when you duckdive.
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Postby LucasG » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:00 am

I use contacts, I have to say it's quiet annoying while surfing. Does it really make a difference if you open your eyes while duck diving? I am looking to get them operated to stop using contacts and fully allow me to open my eyes underwater and enjoy.
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Postby parrysurf » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:47 am

Favorite time to open my eyes under water........at the bottom of a duck dive.

I love the way a wave looks from the underside. that clear separation of clear blue water and white bubbles.
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Postby Dmd*Grl » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:48 am

really ive never tried open my eyes underwater water, im afraid it'll burn..hahaha let alone getting sunblock along with it is a stinger... im afraid of what i might see,hahah
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Postby LucasG » Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:47 pm

I used to love opening my eyes underwater, but now that I use contacts, I don't anymore. I'll see if I can get rid of these soon and see underwater again! :D
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Postby surferdude_scarborough » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:27 pm

yes it does make a huge difference opening your eyes during a duckdive. it means you can see where to point your board so as not to come up still in the whitewash. obviously if you havent got deep enough youll still float back up and get worked anyway. but theres notthing worse than gettting deep and then coming up still in the washing machine.
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Postby Dmd*Grl » Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:49 pm

Yes tell me about.. I tried to duck and dive a 8' waves that came from the outisde and i was off a good 3 feet in diving under....that took me down to a plunge :shock:
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