Handsfree Equalisation

[Mickey]

Hello, my name is Mickey enjoying freediving and spear fishing with harpoon.
Let me have a question.
I hear some people can equalize without picking his/her nose. Can anyone here do such way? Please tell me how to do that.
I always equalize with my hand picking my nose, so, during the equalizing I cannot use both hands and it is a resistance to swim fast.

 

[ramstam]

I can. There is a post somewhere that describes exactly how to do it.
It is kind of like the first part of a yawn. If I use the "hands-on" method it hurts my ears.
Did you mean pinching your nose?

 

[Mickey]

Thanks for your reply.
When I equalize, I pinch my nose with my fingers and breathe out. By this way I can equalize easily and without any problem except for the water resistance in speed swimming and unavailability in hand.

 

[ramstam]

I understood what you were saying, but you wrote picking your nose.
So, I thought it was worth a laugh

 

[Sergiu]

New equalisation technique - nose picking rofl. Sorry Mickey, i think it's a small spelling error ( i am not an English native myself) but it's just very funny imagining one going down the blue while...picking his/her nose yet getting good equalisation!

Back to the actual technique - it's doable but not by everyone unfortunately - you need good control over and responsive airways.

check out http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=33787&highlight=equalisation

also www.liquivision.ca where Eric Fattah has a great document on one Frenzel technique.

serge

 

[ramstam]

Eric's method is the one I was talking about, it works!

 

[jimqpublic]

I was able to do hands free equalization yesterday. The bottom was only about 6 meters down though. Also I tended to lose a bit of air throught the mask.

I just pressurized mask and ears on the surface and kept it up as I descended with light freznel pressure. At first I though I wasn't clearing because no pop but realized that 20' down with no sensation of pressure I must have been successful. I did it over and over a good dozen times.

Jim

 

[ramstam]

I was able to do hands free equalization yesterday. The bottom was only about 6 meters down though. Also I tended to lose a bit of air throught the mask.

I just pressurized mask and ears on the surface and kept it up as I descended with light freznel pressure. At first I though I wasn't clearing because no pop but realized that 20' down with no sensation of pressure I must have been successful. I did it over and over a good dozen times.

Jim

I think the fun part is tricking yourself into thinking you are "working on something" while you dive. It's like work...only enjoyable.