[turtle]

FRC diving feels a lot more natural than big inhale diving in that you need less/no weights, you get a nice sense of blood shift & you can concentrate on equalising etc. Also makes you a lot more manoeuvrable in the shallows for snorkelling around.

Had some odd experiences with it though, including feeling sort of 'blocked' in the chest around 10/15metres. This feeling came on after frc diving for a month or so & going deep just felt 'wrong' all of a sudden, including on full lungs. Very frustrating as i couldn't work out why it happened & my max was 30m frc before & anything around 15m frc was super comfortable ie. could get minute or two bottom time quite happily. Difficult imagining doing my inhale pbs on frc though :-( !

Pool diving was pretty interesting, doing hangs then waiting for contractions & going for max no fins. Not enjoyable, but then again are dynamics ever enjoyable?? Got to about 80% of my max WITH fins on inhale, but not very psyched for pool stuff so not good examples probably.

I always kind of wonder if a sort of middle line between frc and inhale diving wouldn't yield good results, or if it would just give you the worst of both worlds...?

Fred - soon splashing about again