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Ah. Try closing the suit dump valve just a couple of clicks. And keep your trim. With a standard upper arm mounted dump valve and in horizontal trim, the suit keeps the air pretty well until you lift your left elbow and roll a little to the right. That's the technique I'm using to dump air from my suit.
Alternatively, you could close the valve completely and rely on pushing it when you want to dump. I close my arm valve if I for some reason ascend head-up.
EDIT: And try using your BCD as little as possible on ascents or descents. As soon as you're neutral with a comfortable amount of air in your suit, you shouldn't have to change the amount of air in your BCD when you ascend or descend since if you're comfortable at 5m, and then add enough air to be comfortable at 30m, your suit - and by extension, you - will have exactly the same volume and the same buoyancy.
Alternatively, you could close the valve completely and rely on pushing it when you want to dump. I close my arm valve if I for some reason ascend head-up.
EDIT: And try using your BCD as little as possible on ascents or descents. As soon as you're neutral with a comfortable amount of air in your suit, you shouldn't have to change the amount of air in your BCD when you ascend or descend since if you're comfortable at 5m, and then add enough air to be comfortable at 30m, your suit - and by extension, you - will have exactly the same volume and the same buoyancy.
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