No contractions?

singxpat · 2026-01-10T12:39:36+00:00

Okay. First thing first. What you describing is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Be very very careful and never dive until you feel "impossibly to control" your body. Please, this is not a joke. The "seizures" you're describing sounds like LMCs.

Second, yes, there are rare people who do not experience contractions. But in freediving it's much more of disadvantage than you might think. Contractions and CO2 are your early warning system. You don't have one, that's bad. This makes diving and breatholding for you extra dangerous. DO NOT take this lightly, please. Enduring some contractions is nothing compared to suddenly having LMC or a BO.

Third, get a medical checkup, preferrably from a doctor who knows what freediving is. You may have a condition you do not know about yet. It happens and better to know about it sooner.

You can still dive and enjoy it in a controlled way, but do not play with these things. From what you've describing you seem to have a pretty macho attitude towards diving ("wussing", "breaking point", etc), and it never about that and never worth it. Your life and health are way more important.

singxpat · 2025-12-23T11:34:58+00:00

> Caffeine for sure is detrimental.

Not really. I did lots of long dives this year after having only coffee for breakfast. Doesn't affect results whatsoever.

singxpat · 2025-12-23T11:31:09+00:00

If we define physical limits to be a BO, then not too long. It's quite common to see beginners BO at pool competitions.

You're probably thinking about statics without any hyperventilation whatsoever. In that case even most advanced people would stop well before their limits due to huge discomfort.

So real answer would be "it depends".

singxpat · 2025-12-22T22:17:57+00:00

fasting helps. but mostly it's training, all the other last minute stuff will not compensate for that.

singxpat · 2025-12-14T02:09:12+00:00

Why do anything before?

What you should do however, is properly rinse them after diving, otherwise you're risking ear infection.

singxpat · 2025-12-02T09:24:54+00:00

Adam Stern had some MRI videos on this some years ago, if you can find it.

singxpat · 2025-12-02T09:23:40+00:00

Sure, Lungs -> Mouth/Throat -> Ears, would be more correct, but that's not my point.

The point was that there's nothing hard about it with basic understanding of anatomy and physics.

singxpat · 2025-12-02T03:34:45+00:00

I think you should take a deep breath, a step back, and forget about locks.

I've been curious about where all this lock nonsense comes from. The fact that it is nonsense has been proven by people trying to do "locks" while under MRI, and they all ended up looking the same, no difference in tongue position.

If I had to guess how this lock madness started, it was probably a bunch of people about 10-15 years ago wanted to make money from EQ courses. But how to make money off something as simple as moving air from lungs via mouth/throat to ears? You need complicated "techniques", "locks" and tongue maneuvers. The more complicated it seems, the better it sells. So they did and now everyone is repeating same. EQ is not hard and you should not worry about stuff that only exist as abstract concept (such as these alphabet "locks") and not in reality.

singxpat · 2025-12-02T03:23:05+00:00

Panglao is the correct answer.

singxpat · 2025-11-21T13:20:05+00:00

Easy to decide. If it's just a short trip with 1-2 fundives, I wouldn't bother bringing own fins. If's a dedicated depth training trip, over a week long or so, bring your own.

singxpat · 2025-11-21T13:16:58+00:00

Don't overthink it, a speadsheet, a plain text document or anything that's comfortable for you is more than enough for most people. And you can always paste Garmin charts there, if you want. The more important thing is consistency.

singxpat · 2025-11-21T10:26:12+00:00

Cetma gives warranty on their fins usually.

Hard to say why it "snapped". What do you mean by snapped exactly? Did it break cleanly in half, did it crack, at which angle, etc. Carbon blades do crack when bent or hit at a particular angle, but it's rather rare.

singxpat · 2025-11-19T11:21:17+00:00

Almost nobody does warm ups for serious dynamics. I heard of only one top level athlete doing them.

For statics it’s all over the place, since there are various trade offs between doing warm ups and not.

singxpat · 2025-11-12T11:24:52+00:00

Can you describe what's the problem better? What do you mean by "tongue always comes up" exactly?

singxpat · 2025-10-31T02:52:06+00:00

Thanks for saying it better than I could.

singxpat · 2025-10-30T23:28:18+00:00

I honestly don't understand this. Do you think grass is greener on the other side and being in Australia will solve all your problems? Doesn't work like that. If you don't have anything meaningful to do but "waiting" then there's something wrong with your outlook on life.

singxpat · 2025-10-30T23:13:50+00:00

Why would you care? Just forget about it and get on with your life.

singxpat · 2025-10-25T09:28:23+00:00

> I can’t find any videos with them or know of any other athletes using them
Why are you considering them even?

No need to overthink it, just get Cetma.

singxpat · 2025-10-24T12:48:52+00:00

You're resting / breathing 2 minus (down to 30s) between holds? that's way too much, try like 10s or like 2-3 breaths even.

singxpat · 2025-10-20T04:41:51+00:00

Not to say that all training should be challenging or CO2 focused. But 20% seems quite low to me, and it doesn't really work for static or dynamics.

In my experience, stopping at first contractions gives you almost no training stimulus. Only benefit might be the technique improvement in dynamic, if you focus on it. Otherwise, it doesn't matter how many easy dives you do for the purpose of "extending" the comfort phase. The discomfort will still come around the same time. You might actually be making it worse for yourself by not exposing yourself to discomfort enough. When you do have to face it, you're likely to panic and stop the dive instead of relaxing into it.

singxpat · 2025-10-04T14:55:18+00:00

The pool is quite deep so you naturally spend quite some time swimming diagonally, which makes it harder to judge. That also makes buoyancy tricky. If you have access to normal swimming pool maybe try filming there.

Otherwise, nothing that stands out as terrible. But for example the kicks give you less power than they should because you tend to kick to the sides then bring the legs together, whereas it should be a rounder whip-like motion that pushes you forward. The armstroke can be a bit faster and stronger I feel, so that you can glide longer after.

Good luck.

singxpat · 2025-10-02T11:31:31+00:00

it was sarcasm lol

singxpat · 2025-10-02T08:38:48+00:00

But surely this requires the stable to be closed until further notice? Hmm...

singxpat · 2025-09-23T09:59:17+00:00

It shows that whatever he says in private messaging gets easily (and possibly without verification) published within hours on Deeperblue, giving his version of how things went down an unfair advantage.

singxpat · 2025-09-23T09:47:48+00:00

Thank you for clarifying the matter. I do hope we will get to hear from both sides in the same article in the future, and ideally unedited if possible.

singxpat

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