Sitting on the bottom.

[inkjet]

Hi,

I've seen pictures on this and other sites of people relaxing on the bottom of the ocean or a pool to practice their statics.
When I try this, I float to the surface. How can people sit at the bottom of a pool without floating up?

 

[matrixed82]

Don't fill your lungs or hold on to something heavy.

 

[SanderP]

Yeah, just exhale all or most of the air from your lungs and you'll sink like a stone. And like matrixed said, you can also hold on to something that's sinking or wear weights.

 

[inkjet]

Yeah, just exhale all or most of the air from your lungs and you'll sink like a stone. And like matrixed said, you can also hold on to something that's sinking or wear weights.

How can your practice normal statics (not negatives) with half empty lungs? It is a different ballgame I guess. On the pictures people don't have weights.

Could it be that if the pool is quite deep you don't float anymore?

 

[matrixed82]

Could it be that if the pool is quite deep you don't float anymore?

If you go deep enough you will eventually sink. As you go deeper the increasing pressure compresses the air in your lungs. Eventually the volume is too small and doesn't provide enough bouyancy to make you float and you start sinking.

When freediving you start to sink after a few kicks and you enter the 'sink phase', thats the best part.

 

[inkjet]

If you go deep enough you will eventually sink. As you go deeper the increasing pressure compresses the air in your lungs. Eventually the volume is too small and doesn't provide enough bouyancy to make you float and you start sinking.

Okay so the only way (in a pool!) to do full lung statics would be to get weights or hold on to a ladder or something. For empty lung statics the pool works fine. But that is different business alltogether. Not for beginners like me.

 

[Evita]

I know that you asked a different question... but you don't have to sit at the bottom to practice statics in a pool. Just to make things clear if other beginners are reading this and getting confused. Where I train, we usually just rest head down at the surface near the edge of the pool (it feels nice to be able to hold on to the edge towards the end of the static, when you are getting ready to surface). Static at the surface probably doesn't look as pretty or cool as the pictures you are refering to, but it does the job