[Jon]

Keep your chin tucked and try not to look ahead at the wall too much- it increases your bodies stress and urge to breath.

I try to just look at the bottom, lane lines, and only look up when I know I'm at the end of the pool. If your doing it in a 25 mter pool really try and get your turns down so they are nice and smooth- huge waste of energy here if you don't do it right.

I don't know if statics will actuly help or not. My buddy has a much longer static than me, by a minute, but I have a longer dynamic than he does, by almost 25 meters.

You could also try some hypoxic surface swimming, breathing every third, fifth, sventh, or nineth stroke. This can be done in a "pyramid" fasion going harder to easier.

Try picking up a copy of Umberto's book and look at some of the ideas in there.

Jon