[rslomkow]

Exercise you can try on dry land.

#1

Stuff you cheeks with air.
Open your nose (soft palate)
Squeeze your cheeks

You should get air out your nose, by squeezing you cheeks. This just checks that you can open your soft palate.

#2

Stuff you cheeks with air.
Hold your nose (or use nose-clip)
Squeeze your cheeks

Now this is the try playing with rocking your jaw and trying to stop your "throat" (epiglottis)

If you have have the epiglottis open, you will not feel any pressure on the ears. The same with the soft palate. If you play with this you should be able to get some sensation pressure on you ears (ONLY when you squeeze the cheeks)

You can play around with this and eventually begin to get the feel of it. At first it will be hard *not* to blow with your lung if that is what you are used to.