breathing for hunting

[gman]

Be gentle, I'm new....

I have beed reading Sebastian Murat's stuff on another thread and it is fascinating and very confusing. The gist I am taking is that he encourages diving with little air held in the lungs for max dives. He goes into alot of science that I find absolutely fascinating.
I also get the gist that for his type of training he does only one max dive per session. While that is amazing, it is not what I am interested in.
What I am looking for is to be able to dive all day and be very active in the water. I am thinking that if I can have an active five minute capability I will be a very happy camper. I come to this number somewhat arbitrarily thinking that 30 seconds down, two minutes bottom, 30 seconds up with two minutes cushion would allow me alot of water time.
Do you hunters and photographers who make tons of divers in a day do the empty lung (FRC???) type dives or do you do full lung dives? Or do you go half way between? I am also understanding that packing is not a good thing.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[Marwan]

gman, you'll find a lot of differences in techniques from pure freediving to spearfishing, remember in spearfishing your aim is not necessarily to go deeper, but rather maximize your bottom time at target depth. the only thing i would advise you is to take it easy and learn at your pwn pace, your only tru teacher will be the sea, keep diving but follow the safety rules and practice will make perfect. i would always advise you to relax as much as possible before you go down, another memeber on the forum here gave me advice that i found very helpful and SAFE, which is to remain on the surface at least twice the tome of your dive, that way you get to relax and eventually pull off a better dive and also play it safe. just keep practicing and dont push your limits, general fitness and relaxation in the water will help you lots, also never have a big breakfast before you go
cheers

 

[gman]

Thanks Marwan,
This is the kind of info I need. Back when I used to dive, we did not give two thoughts to much of anything in terms of science, training, or such things. We were concerned about safety, but really only in terms of tides, rocks, and surf. Hardly anything on breatholding safety. Our instructors told us not to hyperventilate with more than three breaths, but never told us why. No one ever mentioned packing. Thank you again very much.

 

[Marwan]

cheers,
like you i get confused with all the technical details you sometimes meet on the freediving forums (and some of the folks do get very technical), just remember that a lot of these guys are professional competitive freedivers, so dont get caught up in that because many of the issues wont apply to the type of recreational freediving/spearfishing most of us do. Most of the guys on the spearfishing forum rarely go below 20m/66ft. Just keep diving and improve yourself little by little until you develop comfort,
happy hunting

 

[SEDATE]

Be gentle, I'm new....

I have beed reading Sebastian Murat's stuff on another thread and it is fascinating and very confusing. The gist I am taking is that he encourages diving with little air held in the lungs for max dives. .

on this subject., i agree with sebastian., deep dive or dive...with a very little breath inhale works better...i worked on it and make myself adaptain in sea and find it usuful than 3/4 inhale or much aşr inhale
i am wishing to find out a timercard ) to study on breathold..i break up for 2 -3months....
my idea true or not taking to much breath is NOTHING!., would you please stamp here sebastian's post..all the best sedate

 

[SEDATE]

Be gentle, I'm new....

I have beed reading Sebastian Murat's stuff on another thread and it is fascinating and very confusing. The gist I am taking is that he encourages diving with little air held in the lungs for max dives. .

my idea true or not taking to much breath is NOTHING!(just holding breathhold)., little air held in the lungs for max dives can make blood shift but sebastian Murat ... would you please stamp here sebastian's post..all the best sedate

 

[greendiver]

I would like to read that post aswell....thanks!!

 

[gman]

If you all are talking to me, then this is the thread that I was kind of referring to. I followed all the links available and hit all the web sites mentioned:

Hopefully it works... I have been grinding through this infor for several days. I would rather be watching a diving DVD though

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