Post #2566829

2026-05-08 10:05 UTC

@blinry@chaos.social I'm a certified life guard (well never worked as one but ages ago I made that course to be able t work as one. It would need refreshing to work though.) I'm a decent swimmer, trying to go once a week. Getting water up your nose is awful. Always. I hate it. But it doesn't happen often. For swimming (in opposition to diving) the key is to constantly breath out, when under water. (And breath in when over water.) It needs practice. But at some point it becomes "natural".

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@zweifeln@chaos.social 2026-05-08 10:11

@blinry@chaos.social When I learned to properly crawl/freestyle like 15 years ago, I often panicked when water came up my nose or when I swallowed pool water. As long as I could just hold my breath, it was okay but when trying to cross a pool, breathing is needed and took a lot of practice to make it work. The first time I managed a 25m pool was such a huge achivement. Same with the first 50m pool. This shit is hard. Keeping the energy up to be properly floating while breathing and moving forward. Damn.

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@blinry@chaos.social 2026-05-08 10:12

@zweifeln@chaos.social Oh neat, props to you for having guarded lives! :) To clarify, do you always breathe out through your nose when underwater? Or sometimes also through the mouth? A book I've looked at is ambiguous about that. Rationally, I think that if your face points down underwater, water shouldn't really go into the nose anyway, if the "pressure matches"? But I'm not too sure about that.

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