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Originally Posted by azapa
sounds like you have it! how did you get to that point.
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There is a document floating around somewhere that I had printed out a while back. I have it at my office. It has some excecises that build awareness of these muscles. I think it may have been written by someone here on deeperblue if I am not mistaken. The document makes reference to the "regulator breathing". I've played with BTV before on a line descending very slowly. It took me about 30-40 seconds to get to 10m. I was mainly clicking my ears and doing the forward jaw thrust. I can also sometimes do it while doing dynamics in the pool when there is a very gradual change in depth. There are times when I can't do it at all though and quite frequently I can equalize my left ear but not my right. I am nowhere near the point where I could use it while recreational diving because I have to descend too slowly and concentrate to hard on what I am doing.
This thread is very helpful and you have asked all the right questions Simon. Its nice to hear different people describe it in different ways. After reading this it seems that one of the mistakes that I am making is beginning to open my tubes at depth when I feel the need instead of starting on the surface. Also, I have not tried using the backpressure on my mask as you reminded me.
Looking forward to trying it out in the water. Lets hear back on the progress of everyone else learning the technuique too
