Research project

[DivingDane]

Well as the total suggests I'm doing a research project on a specific aspect of freediving as part of a coarse.

I'm required to do a project aswell as condence it into a 40min educational.
The question is what do I do it on?

Leaning toward the following options

- the effetcs of different breathing techniques pre and post dive
- modern day equipment and it's effects on performance
definetly open to other suggestions

so what you got for me?

Thanks

DD

 

[BennyB]

Freedivers: a study into their sex appeal and the effect of freedive mojo on the general public.

You can borrow my notes if you want, they're quite extensive

 

[shoutatthesky]

What about freediving diet? or yoga for freediving? If doing yoga as a subject you could focus on either breath or asana.

What sort of course are you doing?

 

[DivingDane]

gangbangs with ms. palmer and her daughters dont count as research mate! i'm sorry....

mind you bringing up holding your breah for a long time works very well in the right situation... particularly with females named Jess

but thanks for the idea Benny means i can use my own notes as well AND research would be fun but would probably end up with me bein kicked out of the house and Anita taking me for everything i got!

DD

 

[podge]

Freedivers diet sounds like a winner, I could help out with the benefits of “a pie before could help you more” and “ a pie after could keep you from disaster”
From what I’ve been told I reckon Benny might have a bit to chip in with on the subject to.roflrofl
Yoga is also a great subject, you could go in to the mastery of the freediver in as much as he can balance on one arm while tipping beer into himself and not spilling a single drop.:friday:friday
Tis all great stuff.

Good luck with project and let us know how it goes?

 

[Jonny250]

I think the 2 subjects of breathing techniques and diet sound like winners
i would be interested to know more about non-yoga breathing excercises (nothing against yoga per-se, but as a Christian there's a line to be found between yoga 'excercises and yoga-'religion' (said with respect to those who practice yoga ).
seems like there are lots of people who use tables, and also lots of people who 'just do it'...

Also, how about something on solo freediving safety? is that an oxymoron?

 

[Andreas Peper]

Hi,
this post and the inherent question reminds of many talks i had with students.
i think you will enjoy your lesson and its preparation the most if you think about (and afterwards tell other people) what kind of lesson should be the outcome.
i suggest to focus on the lesson and therefore on the students because, to enjoy a research project there have to be answers to other questions than discussing its labels like "breathing" or "yoga". and i also think that its not worth the work if the question isn´t going apart from "what comes out when i do this". sorry when i sound a little negative and i know that i am just assuming you stop somewhere when thinking of your purpose. But ... as i wrote above, the thread reminds me on other discussions where measuring something (after chossing any subject) and doing research where mixed up. perhaps i am a little fundamental and you will enjoy whatever you do which would be just great.
what do you think? hope to be able to get more constructive after reading your opinion on this

andy

by the way: where you thinking of measuring at all? or doing just a search and sum it up? as you perhaps noticed, i assumed the first :hmm

 

[ptoot]

Also, how about something on solo freediving safety? is that an oxymoron?

Oxymoron: such a lovely word. Is that the official name for an 0²-provider at an indoor tournament? Or someone doing a dive after O² breathing? :head

Seriously now: I'd be interested to read about the subject of solo freediving safety, simply because it can be soooo tempting when you're stuck without a buddy...

 

[DivingDane]

Andreas

the reason for this project is that it is part of my FDI instructor coarse. we must produce a body of information and relate it to the interests of divers. basically showing our understanding of more advanced aspects of freedving and then being able to transfur this knowledge to our students in a 40min presentation.

so looking at existing scientific studies and relating them to the area i choose, is the main aim with a little extra testing to confirm the theory proposed. then giving the information to students in a way that directly relates to their diving.

Breathups have changed so much ofver the years and EVERYBODY has an opinion on what is best, so i think i will go down this path and look at the cience behind the different major techniques and how they effect, comfort level, Dive responce time, O2 saturation, Co2 levels and what happens in a dive as a resultof these points.

if anybody has any links to good articles related to this topic it would be much appreciated, Trux's site is good just a lot to sift through.

thanks again

DD

 

[cdavis]

Think about looking at something where you can establish a large and easily defined difference in technique. Something that would grab the audience's attention and be likely to generate substantial differences in data. For example, look at chemical composition of exhaled air after equivalent frc and full lung dives. If you have a good way to measure dive reflex onset that would be great. Add divers subjective feelings of how the recovery felt compared to the gas composition.

Sounds like a fun project.

Connor