I have just started having issues with my weighting and buoyancy in dynamic apnea. I am 147cm and 55kg. I was using 4.5kg on weight belt and not having any problems with being over or under weighted. I was at that stage diving with my ams along side me. Have recently changed technique so that I am swimming with my arms out in front, head tucked down so am in a more hydrodynamic position. On doing this I have began floating to the top. So we added a neck weight (1kg I think was what I used). This seemed to overcompensate so I then was literally scrapping along the bottom of the pool and of course this added extra resistance and I had to push myself up of the bottom. Reduced weight belt to 3kg - started popping back up to the surface again, but sometimes end up on the bottom also with that same weight combination.
Have also tried kicking less, and kicking more. Seems no rhyme nor reason to either popping up to the surface or scrapping along the bottom. I do know that I need proper fins as my current ones are not FD ones and have little flex in them, but would they contribute to such buoyancy problems?
Is there something I might be doing wrong in my technique or something else I could try? Could I be "pointing" my body down too much or pushing off wrong?
Would appreciate some advice.
Have also tried kicking less, and kicking more. Seems no rhyme nor reason to either popping up to the surface or scrapping along the bottom. I do know that I need proper fins as my current ones are not FD ones and have little flex in them, but would they contribute to such buoyancy problems?
Is there something I might be doing wrong in my technique or something else I could try? Could I be "pointing" my body down too much or pushing off wrong?
Would appreciate some advice.