Re: Dive reflex not always helpful?
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Here are two reasons:
1. Oxygen absorption through your skin
- Your skin absorbs a lot of oxygen, up to 8% of your body's requirement. Underwater this is not the case.
2. CO2 storage
- Under conditions of vasoconstriction & cold, your CO2 storage capacity is reduced. This requires you to modify your diet, training or breathe-up to compensate. If you use the same diet/training/breathe-up for wet static and dry static, then your wet static time will be less. This is the main reason that wet static is a totally different event than dry static, and requires its own training & optimization.
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Eric Fattah
Canada
http://www.liquivision.ca
"I encourage you to be free in the way you measure your success. I don’t claim to know what it will be like to be in your position, but I know that when you leave here, grades will be handed out differently. Your ability to gauge your success will largely depend on how you perceive it. You can shape it, set it up, feel it, and define it. Allow competition to turn inward. Do not depend on awards, money, or other validations." -Jonny Moseley
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