divers and snorkellers please help

hi i have been freediving for a little while and are finding it hard to equilise due to always having some congestion in ear/sinus, does anyone know an ways to relieve this

i hav been just swallowing to equilise but its sometimes hard to swallow while freediving and the pinch and blow method does not seems to work going head first

how can i learn frenzel equilizing and how do you do it

i really really love spearfishing and freediving and this problem is annoying seeing as i can hold my breath pretty good and i think frenzel might be the last hope


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Have you tryed wiggling your jaw?

Thu, 2010-02-04 18:00

We were told about it when I got my ticket in highschool.  It didnt really work for me, until I was having trouble one day and couldnt do pinch and blow. You sorta push your bottom jaw out a bit and move your bottom jaw from left to right and swallow. Repeat.

Maybe at the pressure it is more effective but I struggle to practice it on the surface.

 

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havent tried that under the water

Thu, 2010-02-04 18:40

but it worked a little bit on the surface

does anyone how to do frenzel

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http://liquivision.com/docs/F

Thu, 2010-02-04 19:20
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okay the jaw movements did not work so

Thu, 2010-02-04 19:47

lucky tim do you know frenzel, the document looks pretty complex is it hard to learn

anyone else out there leanrt to do frenzel, if so how long did it take you to learn and was it that hard

 

do you think i could learn it in a week, i really need to

 

any tips 

also anyone know a good way to relieve sinus congestion

 

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I just read 90% of it

Thu, 2010-02-04 19:53

Tryed some exercises along they way. Seemed ok, by tying it all together seems key. Good luck!

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better get practising if you

Thu, 2010-02-04 19:54

better get practising if you need to do it in a week. The doc is a bit of reading but most is theory, there's really only a few steps you need to learn, then put it together.
I've tried and can do the moves but haven't had the chance to test it at depth yet so who knows.
I looked at it cos I can't equalize when head first like you.

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its a real pain hey not equilising head first

Fri, 2010-02-05 07:21

my brother can do it but i can hold by breath for twice as long

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Lol Wideopen i cant hold

Fri, 2010-02-05 07:43

Lol Wideopen

i cant hold mine to long but over the chrissie holidays i went from swimming 20m to 50m underwater. i went from 4m to 7-8m.

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You don't smoke by any chance

Fri, 2010-02-05 13:02

Increases conjestion by a factor of around 10 ...........which was why I finally found a reason to give up and now have absolutely no problem clearing my ears head down or up on descent

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no way

Fri, 2010-02-05 16:32

dont do anything like that

right i went from holding my breath from 30 secs to 1 minute and 20 secs which i think is pretty good but of course was conducted by the breathing teckniques which help so much