Of course, we do not want to replace acourse diving, but perhaps with these tricks it will be easier for you to start your underwater adventure. If you want to master the aquatic environment and feel like a fish in water, with the skills detailed below you will turn water into a welcoming environment, in which you will experience many emotions.
Pay attention, we're starting!
How to handle the mask?
Our skin gives off heat, so when we put on the mask, this vapor can cause it to fog up. So that this does not happen to you, you have two options:
- Use our own saliva, which contains a protein that prevents the windows from fogging up. Before using the mask, dry, spread the saliva with your fingers on the inner glass, this will fix the protein on the glass. Then rinse the mask with water and you can start diving.
- Use the anti-fog products that exist on the market, very effective
How to empty the tube?
When you are already in the water and you have to put the tube in your mouth or when you have gone apnea, the tube will be full of water. So, when the top of the tube is out of the water you will have to exhale forcefully through the mouthpiece to empty it and be able to breathe in again. It sounds complicated, but once you get into practice you will see how you can get all the water out of the tube in one go.
We are used to breathing using our nose and mouth, with the tube you will have to begin to dissociate breathing and learn to breathe only through your mouth. A good exercise to get used to is to put your glasses on upside down (the rubber band on your face, and the lenses on the back) and hook the tube on. in the rubber. Once placed, you submerge and you will be completely covered in water, so the only way to breathe will be with the tube, through your mouth. Do several lengths with this exercise and you will get used to it little by little.
Mastering this exercise is essential to solve common situations, such as water getting into the mask, or some less probable but possible ones, such as the retaining rubber breaking and you being left without a mask while fully submerged.
It will be essential that you propel yourself correctly
Fins are your rudder underwater, your means of propulsion, and you have to know how to use them. You should know that the movement of the fins is not done with the feet or knees, but rather starts in the hips. Put on the mask, enter the pool and start with a ventral fin, on the surface, face down and stretching your arms close to the trunk.
To achieve good propulsion and efficient flapping, there are two key points:
- Do not bend your knees excessively to flutter. Keep your leg as straight as possible, allowing a wide range of motion at the ankle.
- Do not flap out of the water. Don't let your heels go beyond the surface.
How to move with a single fin
If you want to enhance your balance and coordination in the water, use a single fin. In addition, it will come in handy to deal with situations such as breaking the fixing rubber or losing one of the fins. Place yourself on the surface, face down, with your hands behind your back, that is, as in the previous exercise, but this time with only one fin. Try to move forward while maintaining ventral balance. Once you master this, you can have fun practicing the ball drill.
Another exercise to practice is synchronized finning, which consists of placing yourself with a partner lying on a cork board used for swimming. Each one will have a single fin, the opposite to the other, and you will have to synchronize to be able to advance. Fun and practical.
The action of diving: the so-called "kidney blow"
When submerging, place your body parallel to the surface, in a navigation position or face down, starting from a static position or a ventral flap. Then, drop your arms perpendicular to the surface, downward and gently flex your trunk until it is perpendicular to the surface of the water. The arms will continue to be stretched towards the bottom, so that entry into the water is facilitated.
Once in the water, you have to raise your legs so that they are in line with the trunk, so that they are above the surface. Then, due to inertia, the entire body sinks. Now you can start flapping.
Remember that tocompensate your ears you will have to perform the Vasalva maneuver (cover your nose, close your mouth and try to expel air).
Do you want to learn to spin in the water like a dolphin?
When you put on the diving suit, you will notice that to counteract the lateral inertia produced by the weight of the bottle, the following exercise is very important. Without realizing it, it may happen that you are descending to the bottom of the pool on your back, looking towards the surface. To solve it you will have to learn to move forward by making turns around the longitudinal axis of your body, like dolphins do.
If you want to master the turns, start by doing some lengths of dorsal finning, face up, stretching your arms forward with your palms joined (remember, with light equipment on, and without flexing knees excessively or flapping out of the water). Next, perform a lateral flap, the same as before but on the side. Do this exercise on both sides.
With all this, you already have the basis to start making slow turns, on our body and parallel to the water. Start face down, then you will place yourself on your right side, advance a little further, do some fins in a dorsal position, then some fins on your left side and, again, face down.
Since you have to start breathing through the tube, doing this exercise will logically flood you. To empty it, take advantage of when you go through the ventral position (face down). The next turn, in the other direction. Progressively, to the other, and you will have to synchronize to be able to advance. Fun and practical.
The action of diving: the so-called "kidney blow"
When submerging, place your body parallel to the surface, in a navigation position or face down, starting from a static position or a ventral flap. Then, drop your arms perpendicular to the surface, downward and gently flex your trunk until it is perpendicular to the surface of the water. The arms will continue to be stretched towards the bottom, so that entry into the water is facilitated.
Once in the water, you have to raise your legs so that they are in line with the trunk, so that they are above the surface. Then, due to inertia, the entire body sinks. Now you can start flapping.
Remember that tocompensate your ears you will have to perform the Vasalva maneuver (cover your nose, close your mouth and try to expel air).
Do you want to learn to spin in the water like a dolphin?
When you put on the diving suit, you will notice that to counteract the lateral inertia produced by the weight of the bottle, the following exercise is very important. Without realizing it, it may happen that you are descending to the bottom of the pool on your back, looking towards the surface. To solve it you will have to learn to move forward by making turns around the longitudinal axis of your body, like dolphins do.
If you want to master the turns, start by doing some lengths of dorsal finning, face up, stretching your arms forward with your palms joined (remember, with light equipment on, and without flexing knees excessively or flapping out of the water). Next, perform a lateral flap, the same as before but on the side. Do this exercise on both sides.
With all this, you already have the basis to start making slow turns, on our body and parallel to the water. Start face down, then you will place yourself on your right side, advance a little further, do some fins in a dorsal position, then some fins on your left side and, again, face down.
Since you have to start breathing through the tube, doing this exercise will logically flood you. To empty it, take advantage of when you go through the ventral position (face down). The next turn, in the other direction. Progressively,
