Wanted to share this knowledge with fellow surfers http://www.ehow.com/about_6684445_freediving-breathing.html quick article on improving your breath
pretty neat read. i wish my breath was decent. i always seem to be fighting for a breath after a wipeout; i cant imagine being held under for two waves at a big break
Everyone should do the yoga breathing exercise. Inhale to capacity through your nose to the count of four. Hold your breath to the count of seven. Then placing your tongue behind your front teeth, exhale slowly to the count of eight. Repeat a half dozen times or as many as you can. Do it on a regular basis and you should be able to expand your lung capacity.
I don't know thats actually pretty good. I swam nationally and at a D1 college and if you can nearly do a 75 underwater -- very impressive.
http://www.amazon.com/Manual-Freedi...9270/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318952302&sr=8-1 anyone interested in this topic should check out this book, it pretty much covers the entire subject of holding your breath
I can hold my breath when driving through this tunnel.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Mountain_Tunnel (even more mediocre, as I'm just sittin') but better than some others in the car.
I chain smoke, it's lazy cross training. When I'm getting pounded and held under, my lungs are like "yeah yeah we're used to no air"
all jokes aside... hold breath for 30 seconds/rest for 30 seconds hold breath for 1 minute/ rest 1 minute hold for as long as you can Repeat 2x or 3x a day. Time your last hold and watch results improve within a week. The yoga ones good too, hurts less.
competitive swimmers do a lot of breath holding exercizes with fins on in the pool, we like to do two laps underwater dolphin kicking with fins, break for 15 seconds and repeat as many times as you can, will definitly expand your lung capacity. getting inside an industrial size washing machine works as well
its one thing to practice holding your breath on land, and totally different thing to do it while your violently drowning with the entire ocean coming down at you..
what do you need to see for ? Your running on a flat sand bottom... One of my side jobs is diving under yachts to clean their bottoms before a race, and i almost always just free dive, visibility is usually like 9 inches but its enough to work down there, so i would think it would be enough to do that kind of training.
