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I've metioned this training routine somewhere else before. here it is again -hope it helps you out there:
plug your ears - turn on some loud music - work out your palate muscles. by hearing the music getting louder (through your middle ears) you have a feedback of the effectiveness of your btv maneouvre and get a training effect thru this...
good luck to you all
pat
plug your ears - turn on some loud music - work out your palate muscles. by hearing the music getting louder (through your middle ears) you have a feedback of the effectiveness of your btv maneouvre and get a training effect thru this...
good luck to you all
pat
BTV - easy on the coffee
BTV - Butt Training Value ?
Its reassuring to know that others recognise the value of Butt training.
It can be messy believe me...but the titanium lining on my suit makes the clean up easier !
Anyway...i'll soon be off this ship (6 weeks aaaahhhh), so the Bass and Mullet (and triggers) of SW Ireland better watch out
BTV - Butt Training Value ?
Its reassuring to know that others recognise the value of Butt training.
It can be messy believe me...but the titanium lining on my suit makes the clean up easier !
Anyway...i'll soon be off this ship (6 weeks aaaahhhh), so the Bass and Mullet (and triggers) of SW Ireland better watch out
hello everyone,
i've trained to open my eustacian tube a full year, once a day, and sometimes 30 min long. After 3 month i manged to hear clicks, btw cracking, by moving some muscles (have no idea which one). And after diving every day ( 2 weeks long ) my eustacian was opened for 30 min
After i managed how to click, btw to hear clicking, i learned to equalize my ears in the air ( 8 month ), i needed first 3-5 pushes to equalize with same result as with frenzel in the air. Now i'm on Malta and dive every day. I meet one who can equalize handsfree, we were diving together for 2 weeks. He explaned me his feeling by equalizing, and how he does it. At the time i could hold my eustacian tube opend for long time (head up or down, no matter) and by breathing throw my nose i could equalize without any problems (in the air).
Then i took a day only to learn equalize efficient. I dived down to 2-3m without equalizing and tried to open my eustacian tube by same technique as in a air. And it works without any problems. Then i tried to go deeper. I noticed that no matter which technique i use to equalize, i have always problems with my left ear :waterwork even with frenzel, valsava, mouthfill ... it takes always 1 sec. longer to equalize than the right one, so that i have mostly slow descent.
Are my ears different? btw perheaps is something wrong with my left ear, because after 3-4 dives i cant equalize. I have to shake my head, and it fills like the water comes out of it
whats wrong with it ? :waterwork does anyone have the same problem?
i've trained to open my eustacian tube a full year, once a day, and sometimes 30 min long. After 3 month i manged to hear clicks, btw cracking, by moving some muscles (have no idea which one). And after diving every day ( 2 weeks long ) my eustacian was opened for 30 min
After i managed how to click, btw to hear clicking, i learned to equalize my ears in the air ( 8 month ), i needed first 3-5 pushes to equalize with same result as with frenzel in the air. Now i'm on Malta and dive every day. I meet one who can equalize handsfree, we were diving together for 2 weeks. He explaned me his feeling by equalizing, and how he does it. At the time i could hold my eustacian tube opend for long time (head up or down, no matter) and by breathing throw my nose i could equalize without any problems (in the air).
Then i took a day only to learn equalize efficient. I dived down to 2-3m without equalizing and tried to open my eustacian tube by same technique as in a air. And it works without any problems. Then i tried to go deeper. I noticed that no matter which technique i use to equalize, i have always problems with my left ear :waterwork even with frenzel, valsava, mouthfill ... it takes always 1 sec. longer to equalize than the right one, so that i have mostly slow descent.
Are my ears different?
btw perheaps is something wrong with my left ear, because after 3-4 dives i cant equalize. I have to shake my head, and it fills like the water comes out of it whats wrong with it ? :waterwork does anyone have the same problem?
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If your left ear is the one that's giving you problems, try stretching the left side of your neck by tiliting your head to the right while you equalize.
Also try to equalize as often as possible (yes, even twice per meter if necessary), that solves much of the equalization problems.
Good luck.
Also try to equalize as often as possible (yes, even twice per meter if necessary), that solves much of the equalization problems.
Good luck.