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Glad you found some help here, but many of us would like to help more. Stick with us...hanamizu:hiya. Just wanted to let you (all) know how helpful i've found my half hour in your forum. Thank you for having me, and hello! I realise this is an old thread, but perhaps you're still here...
Am new to diving - planning to take a course in a few weeks and get my very first dunk, but i realised there'd be some breathing issues. A swimming teacher basically nearly drowned me as a kid 20yrs ago (they had to fish me out with a hook and all that), and though i've taught myself to swim very well since, can go under and all that, i'm not totally happy about this idea of breathing with a nose full of water. I don't generally even swim with my head under. Your advice(s) about relaxing, choosing your own pace and so on are really great. Thank you for being here. I think i can sort it with practice, but i want to try things out before i have to do it with other people around. I can't handle being totally crap in front of a class of people, and i'm good at relaxing into problems if i can practise in private. Finding my zen, as i think one of you put it. I do a fair bit of yoga, and can control my breathing (a bit).
So i guess i've got a practical question you can help me with, if you don't mind - if i'm going to practice in the bath, how much difference does head angle make to all this? Cos gravity's quite important to that whole drowning thing, but having NO experience of this at all, i'm not sure how best to try. Lying on my back (which'd be the obvious thing for a simple tube snorkel) seems like a very bad idea, just intuitively. Water'll go right down my throat? MAybe i'm wrong. Which head angle/s am i best to try to get comfortable with it? How do you practice in teh bath, basically?
Thanks so much, guys (of both genders). Here's to the seas of Cornwall...
Do you have a snorkel, mask and fins? You'll need those in training, and practicing with those now and along will help you a lot with the skills you need to learn.
And drop in on our Intros fourm. We'd love to welcome you appropriately there...