:0Ask or tell me about breath-holding skill underwater
Hi everyone,
I am wondering if anyone else here has such a love for water as I do. I took some SCUBA courses, and came quite close to being certified. However, I never finished. I now however, am interested in the sport of skindiving, or breath-hold diving, which involves less preparation than SCUBA, but can still be quite dangerous.
Does anyone here do this, or train themselves to stay down for extended periods of time?
I have been training myself for a good amount of time. On land, max ever, I did a 3 minute breath hold, actually quite bad among the real standards. And in the water, with about 10 lbs of weight sitting on the bottom, I've pushed to a minute and a half (now 2:15), and can do 1:30 of swimming around. I'm afraid to progress to quick for fear of passing out, a bad thing to have happen underwater.
I may have mislabeled the thread as I am no expert by any means in freediving, though I have a bit of knowledge, but created this solely for the means of discussion, anyone interested in this sport?
I seek breathold ability really in case I go snorkeling somewhere, and it's nice to be able to swim in the pool for a while underneath since I love being under, and don't want to have to come up right away.
Any thoughts, experiences, questions or answers welcome.
P.S yay, I just went 2:15 under there...Yay!!