Psychological component to contractions

[harrychamas]

Somehow I can sense the beauty of diving beyond ambition and physical exercise, but I also realize that much of that is clouded by being too conscious of technique, depth, time. Looking forward to break free from this preoccupation.

You'll get it mate, it just takes repetition, a lot of repetition, then once the physical side can be done on auto pilot your free to explore the mental side.

 

[Penyu]

You'll get it mate, it just takes repetition, a lot of repetition, then once the physical side can be done on auto pilot your free to explore the mental side.

Looking foward to that part!

 

[baiyoke]

What interests me now is how safe diving with a buddy really is? Are SWB frequently turned into a happy ending due to vigilant buddies? What are peoples experiences with that? In backcountry skiing for example, every year many people are rescued from suffocating under and avalanche by appropriately trained skiing partners. The buddy system works well. Does the buddy system in diving actually work and happen, or is it more like these safety cards in planes that tell you about the safe procedure in case of a crash landing, but all they really do is create a false sense of security, since crash landing usually end up in no survivors. I would be really interested to hear of people that have or have been rescued!

This is of course my subjective view of things, but when I talk about a buddy, I mean an attentive buddy following some kind of buddy system (and most people refer to a "buddy" like that I'd say). If by a buddy you think of "just another person who I go diving with..." it is a different, and not nescessarily safe matter. So by looking at my view of a buddy/buddy-system: Yes, it is allmost bullet-proof - except of course nothing is. It is something I regard as a very safe way of diving, when talking about diving on a line, using a lanyard. BUT: You need to know how and why it is safe, AND be safe about other things also. If you do unsafe stuff, it is still unsafe and potentially dangerous. So doing line-diving, one up, one down, using lanyard, knowing what you do (like your buddy) is very safe even if you do serious depth training in my opinion. Theres a lot of relativity in that view of course. But just to make a point: If 1 out of 100 dives end in BO, and 99,9 out of 100 BO end quick and well in the hands of a buddy, that makes it pretty safe as only 1 out of 100.000 would end more seriously (just some loose number throwing).

Out of more than 40.000 competition-dives no-one died until recently. Many of those dives were very deep and near limit dives. And that guy who had a fatal accident was really not doing safe stuff, and not fit for diving.

On the other hand, if one out of 100 (or even 1000 or 10.000) dives end in BO, and going alone makes it fatal, it doesn't really make sense to take that chance. I think most people wouldn't drink beer if 1 out of 10.000 bottles caused instant death

A buddy is no guarantee, but if a BO occurs (and is perceived of course) it makes all the difference...

 

[J Campbell]

"If by a buddy you think of "just another person who I go diving with..." it is a different, and not nescessarily safe matter."
Absolutely true! Some may regard the lifeguard at the pool as being their "buddy" - they tell the lifeguard that they will be doing statics or whatever and think that protects them. I've read stories several times where people die doing just that.

 

[Yebach]

Hello

One question. My contractions some times, especially if I do co2 tables on full exahale, but also on regular, become so strong it gives me the feeling of vommiting, mouth fillimg with air, all the movement of before you are about to vommit.. There is no bad taste in my mouth or anything it is just air,so if i exhale i am imidiately ok. Still feels, ammmm, not pleasant. I am used to having them soon in my co2 tables and they are strong but it gets really strong sometimes. I haven't found the pattern though, cos it doesn't happen every time. No such problem in the water. Any suggestions?

 

[J Campbell]

Are you practicing on a completely empty stomach? All freediving activity- practices, and real diving should be done on a very empty stomach. I don't eat for 4 or 5 hours before a practice - and then only light foods - no meats, greasy foods, spicey foods. I may eat a ripe bananna as close as an hour before if I think my energy reserves a are low.

 

[Yebach]

Yes, empty stomach. It is not a problem with even my food coming up the throat, just contractions are so intense that gives me the feeling of throwing up. It is hard to explain even . Has anybody had smth simillar?