tarponchik
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What has photosensitivity to do with this?For what it's worth, lengthening my breathing cycles gave me really good air consumption, but I'd end the dive with headaches and photosensitivity.
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What has photosensitivity to do with this?For what it's worth, lengthening my breathing cycles gave me really good air consumption, but I'd end the dive with headaches and photosensitivity.
The right way is 3+5, not 5+5.I would suggest no camera till about your 50th dive and only once your breathing is under control
Try humming when you exhale when inhaling do it slowly count five Mississippi's and 5 when you exhale so this on the surface at home anytime till it becomes natural
Oh my bad my inhale is nice and slow and I don't come up with headachesThe right way is 3+5, not 5+5.
Good thank you for the advice. Pardon my ignorance when you say ‘count 5 Mississippi’ you simply mean I mentally rehearse 5 times the word ‘Mississippi’, that is like counting numbers very slowly? Never heard this before. I think this is what we would call counting ‘one thousand one’ ‘one thousand two’ etc.
Neither do I. But if you breathe 5+5 or 7+7 or 2+2 etc, you are spending half of your time inhaling. Why do you think you save air this way?Oh my bad my inhale is nice and slow and I don't come up with headaches