How to avoid water in your nose during barefoot deep water start?

[Ingo Wagner]

After footing better I like to learn the deep water start. What are
you doing with your nose. How to avoid the water loading your nose
up??
Are you using something to close your nose, what is it and where can I
buy it?
And you don't loose it during falling??
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[Paul Oman]

Ingo Wagner wrote:
> Are you using something to close your nose, what is it and where can I
> buy it?
> And you don't loose it during falling??

I usually wear a nose plug in practice, but it really isn't necessary.
It's the cheap rubber kind that has a strap around the neck and is
available at large drugstores (here in US anyway). It sometimes slips
off my nose in a fall, but I've never lost one from around the neck.
It's more helpful for backwards starts, but just gives me one less
thing to think about when I'm footing.

To get by without one, just hold your breath during the few seconds
your head is under water at the start and exhale through your nose
after your head is out of the water just before you start breathing
normally again.

[Kevin R Baugh]

You can't believe the contraptions that people come up with. I have seen
nose plugs. I have seen people duck tape there nose shut boy does that look
strange. Personall I see no need for any of it. On a front deep simply make
sure that you arch and tilt you head back so you are looking backwards. Then
as the boat takes off blow air out through your nose. In a back deep do the
same thing tilt your head back and blow out throught your nose.

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Ingo Wagner wrote in message <367ffcf...@news.btx.dtag.de>...

>After footing better I like to learn the deep water start. What are
>you doing with your nose. How to avoid the water loading your nose
>up??

>Are you using something to close your nose, what is it and where can I
>buy it?
>And you don't loose it during falling??

[Alan Neeper]

I use clear medical tape it sticks good and does't leave any sticky stuff
on your nose. Or you could learn to do a tumble up start. Good luck.

[Tim Howell]

tumble up and breathe dude. i had problems getting up at first and from a
traditional deep water i'd throw my head back for the restart and choke on
all the water draining from my sinuses. i'm still new at this and it helps
me keep my concentration without all the water up my face. however i held
my breath and did not exhale through my nose as others have suggested but
will be happy to try it next year, or if Santa brings me a dry suit,
saturday!
good luck bro,
tim

[MissFooter]

If done properly, an air pocket should develop, allowing you to breath free of
water. If you are getting water in your nose make sure that your head is
tilted back as far as you can. Also make sure that you arch your back, rolling
shoulders back (relax let pull go through shoulders), and push down on your
chest. If you think that you are doing it correctly change the driver's pull,
Sometimes people need different calls that is what slow, medium, and fast are
for.

[Don Passenger]

I find having my elbows tight to my side on a front deep helps me plane out to the
bubble of air faster too. I really don't get a lot of water either front or back.
Seipel mentioned that when he was doing a lot, he sometimes used a bandaid over the
bottom of his nostrils to divert the water -- I've never found it to be that big a
problem, and I wonder if that would negatively impact draining what water did get
in the snoot.

MissFooter wrote:

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