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BOLTS , what LAMINAR says is absolutely right. You must spend hours , days , months (exaggeration !) but in the end you will do it. As he says the key is the soft palate. To use the tongue as a piston is easy , everyone can do this. But having the soft palate in open position while epiglotis is closed is very difficult. You must try the step #6 again and again and as LAMINAR says maybe the step #2 with the control of soft palate. I did the step #6 for 3 weeks about 3 hours a day. The "guh" sound , I think , is a trick helps you synchronize soft palate , epigloglotis and tongue. It;s like doing Valsava while doing Frenzel. In order to do frenzel you must have your epiglotis closed. Isn't so? In order to make the "Guh" sound you must open epiglotis !!. (Laminar , please correct me If I am wrong). But it helps. It helped me !!

The point is , the character of this technique. This is a gentle technique. The point is to bring middle ear to ambient pressure. Not to over-pressurize your ears. I thought that I had to push air with my tongue , while I had my nose pinched , to push my ears and hear a "click" or "pop" sound. Well , I don't hear the "pop" sound , but I feel the pressure to my ears. You don't have to hear the "pop" sound and you don't have to push hard with your tongue , just send some air to the eustahians to bring them in ambient pressure. That is what exactly Mr Larry "Harris" Taylor , said to me in an e-mail answer.
Laminar please correct me If I am wrong !!

Laminar , in the water , do you pinch your nose to equalize? Or you use the pressure of your mask? Can you describe the way you do it?

Well , BOLTS , when you have people help you , like theese guys in this forum , I think it is everything easy. Thanks a lot , all of you