How To Increase Your Breath Hold For Spearfishing - HOW TO SPEARFISH

For the Full Length video please head to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/aquatic_rehab_spearfishing In this episode I cover topics like - what over breathing is and why it is so dangerous, co2 tolerance, training tables, inner ear anatomy, common equalizing problems and solutions, proactive equalizing, duck diving, I highlight a few grey areas around the one up one down rule and what that rule is, finning and posture, the score yourself relaxation technique (which is a really good pre dive technique), surfacing and hook breaths, surface intervals, dive computers, the mammalian dive reflex, the urge to breathe, shallow water blackout, diet, training and tips and techniques to increase your breath hold. Time codes: 01:35 - The Urge to Breathe 04:11 - Shallow Water Blackout 07:25 - One Up - One Down 13:41 - Surface intervals 15:52 - Mammalian Dive Reflex 18:02 - Breathe Up Techniques 21:07 - The Rate Yourself Relaxation Technique 25:15 - Pre-Descent Inhalation 28:51 - Proactive Equalizing 35:13 - Duck Diving 37:25 - Finning & Posture 40:20 - Surfacing and Hook Breaths 42:15 - Hydration 43:47 - Training Tables 47:59 - Further Tips & Diet

nice video. Never hyperventilate before freediving spearfishing. having said that, on dry land, I do the following apnea exercises. I do a static apnea, dynamic apnea. when i hyperventilate before dry land static apnea I can hold my breath for 3 mins 45. when i hyperventilate and do a dynamic ( burpees / starjumps ) dry land apnea I can hold my breath for 1 min 30. . when i do not hyperventilate i can do a dry land static apnea for 2 mins 30 before urge to breath. when i do not hyperventilate and do dry land dynamic apnea i can hold my breath for about 45 seconds or 1 minute. Based on this because i spearfish alone, I use my dry land dynamic apnea hold as my limit, so I limit my dives to about 45 seconds to 60 seconds (bearing in mind I do not exert my self as much as my dynamic dry land apnea hold because i try to duck dive efficiently and relax underwater when spearfishing) . i do not dive deep either, i only dive up to 10 metres. this way i feel safe and I always use the urge to breathe as my time to surface. I tend not to wait for the urge to breathe however so i surface before this. to add another note, the objective of spearfishing is to catch fish, so I tend to try and seize the opportunity to try to catch fish whilst i am snorkeling, where possible. this way i also limit the number of dives I make. if i see a nice fish in the bottom i will dive for it and i wont spend too much time down below. If i had a dive buddy then that would be a different story, i could stay down longer knowing he or she is there for me. stay safe everyone.

Great stuff Luke, Helping a lot of folks with this info! Hope you are keeping well mate, Stay safe, have fun! 🤿😁👍

Me and mate in medical school who were into spearfishing went down a rabbit hole on this. I remember dipping our heads in buckets of ice water and measuring our heart rate to measure the mammalian dive reflex & being shocked at the response.

Awesome presentation and concise important information 👏 I hope your health is doing better brother.

This should be titled, dangers of breath hold. Not how to.

Great tips man thanks for putting it together

So informative! Thank you so much!

Welcome back

Love it, cheers for the tips

What kask you have thx

why dont we use snorkels with a valve so that when we surface if there is swb then since the mouth is clinching onto the snorkel , the diver once out of the blackout will breathe in air?

Hey! Nice video, I have subscribed patreon - but struggle to find the full length version Any tips on this please?

Why press your nose went u go down?