Great video, I followed the steps (1:mouthfill with air, 2:closing the epligotis, and 3:using the tongue as a piston to compress the air back and upwards to pop the ears) and it worked pretty well. Rolling the jaw and lowering it a few times followed by a few Valsavas makes it easier for me by providing flexibility and loosening up the Eustachian Tubes before I do the Frenzel. I'll continue to practice the technique frequenly. Thanks again for sharing.
Man i gotta thank you heaps ay, i was really struggling to do vasalva technique for some reason underwater, but once i learnt this technique did not need it at all! cheers for the vid!
This is great, I'm going to copy a link to this video into the video I'm uploading to TH-cam tomorrow. It's about "equalizing" to dive to the bottom of the deep end. It's certainly not as advance as your description but it's also intended for kids. Anyway thanks,
That's a fairly good explanation for two different things - the Mouthfill and the Frenzel. IMPORTANT NOTE re Mouthfill: The safe way of moving air up into the mouth is by sucking it up by a "Reverse Pack" - the belly needs to be absolutely relaxed! Trying to "push up" air with your belly will lead to severe injuries, even at shallow depths. Here is one way how yo can exercise that: Fully exhale, then sit erect, pinch your nose and bulge your cheeks to suck up air from your already deflated lungs. There you go, this works only if your belly is absolutely soft. Thanks for the good work. Oli Christen, AIDA Master Instructor.
This was exactly what I needed to hear. I recently learned the frenzel technique from a molchanov short. i had it confused with handsfree. when i saw alexei pinch his nose and building pressure in his nostrils. my mind was blown. when i tried to copy it and it worked building pressure even better than valsalva my mind was super blown!!! but what you said was what i needed to hear; that between 20 and 30 meters valsalva becomes very difficult which is what i've been experiencing for quite some time, thinking there was perhaps something wrong with me. I could tell right away from the ease at which i could produce copious amounts of ear pressure that this was going to be a huge game changer now! and yeah, i've had some issues telling if i was doing it correctly in the water or if my usual insticts for valsalva were kicking in, but as you've said at the end, a way i can test it is to try and do it on vacuum. neat idea. still the coolest og freediving content creator on yt.
the troubleshooting tips, empty lungs and then try is a great one to know. its so hard to know if im doing it without this check. im still doing valsalva, but working on the frenzel but its a conscious choice that is hard without experience. so the simple step by step is usefull but the trouble shooting was the best!
This method comes straight from my freediving course material, and this is not listed as a step. However I 100% agree with your comment that it could be the divers problem.I'm trying this again following all the steps in the video. And I seem to be able to succeed without an extra step of consciously having the open the epiglottis, as my epiglottis remains consistently open, for me I have to consciously close it.However There room for improvement in the video, and thanks for pointing that out.
hahaha its great finding out there is a next technique, me and my mates started diving this really deep and clear sinkhole, up till then i was using valsalva because i hadn't really needed anything else. we were diving a shallower pond where i would reach the bottom and waste some time down there, about 10 metres deep. But at this new spot Instead of wasting time I just kept going deeper, I started really feeling the squeeze and stopped being able to equalize. Now i know what to do haha :)
Oh thank god iv been doin this all mi time of spearfishing , 4 yrs now , only can reach to max 20 meters but i do this at any depth , but i thought it was just me haha, i would explain to my mates how to do it but i could never explain it hah, but nothing better then leaveing your nose alone ;) , you are great at what yu do ! Helpin everyone out, cheers mate , safediveing!
Depends how good your BTV is. If it fails at a certain depth, then the frenzel method can continue take you down deeper. To be honest, ive never done this BVT method, but from what ive head, some people have success with it in the shallower depths, but find it stops working at a certain depth.. a good frenzel mouth-full will take you down reaaaalllllyyy deep
This is really frustrating for me, I can't tell if I am doing it or not. When I blow out all of my air and even reverse pack a few times I can still equalize the way I usually do which is blowing a little air out while pinching your nose. I'm not sure if I've been accidently doing the frenzel this entire time but I can equalize perfectly with absolutely no air in my lungs using the normal way
I just noticed that even if my lungs are full of air, it's still easier to do the frenzel than to push air from my lungs into my ears because my cheeks are stronger at compressing air than my lungs. I think I may have been doing the frenzel instinctively all along but not while diving which a hardly ever do and I do it with my cheeks, not my tongue. If most people are the same as me, then maybe this video is totally useless for everyone but those few unusual people who don't do the frenzel instinctively like the probably the uploader of this video.
BEST EXPLINATION EVER! You are the best, THANK YOU! I got it in 2 minutes with your lesson when every other lesson else failed, I am so happy! :D but yet I still have a problem.... some of the times only one ear is equalizing/pressurizing on land. Perhaps underwater it will be different? Do you have any advice for this? Thank you again very much - From Greece, CHEERS!
28 years spearfishing mate. Beginner with Frenzel here not spearfighing or equalizing ;). I have an ear condition, valsalva just doesnt work, I could only equalise by swalowing. I just found out about frenzel over the summer. Had 3 people try to teach me (2 plus you), one is a 70m freediver. You explained it by far the best. Thanks again :)
+Freediver HD, so as I am diving down, I need to equalize, is there also some sort of de-equalizing as I swim up? Or can I swim up after I equalized at let´s say 10m? thanks :)
Yes, swim straight up. Air needs to be forced into your ears through equalization on the way down. However on the way up, the air expands and comes out of ur ears naturally, so there is no such thing as de-equalize.
Could you do a video close up of the throat action while performing Frenzel? I think that's the hardest part of frenzel. We know the tongue is the piston. We just don't know what to use as the crankshaft and rod to push the piston upward.
This may be a dumb question, but is it a good idea to remove wax from your ears before a dive? I also think I have a hard time equalizing because as soon as I feel that my ears are full of air I get an urge to swallow. I think that causes air to escape but it usually happens when I'm practicing out of the water. Do you get the same urge on a dive?
Something that was weird was that I already knew how to do it without even freediving having started freediving yet. I would just do it randomly. The funny thing was that for a couple of weeks I was thinking that i wasn't doing it right but when I came across a video that used a partial close of the nose and then started doing it I could hear that familiar noise of air going in and out of the nose and from then on I knew that I had already mastered it. My tip to u is don't worry about closing off ur throat just relax and try to breathe through Ur nose without actually involving Ur lungs, hope this helped :D
RIGHT! -- "just relax and try to breathe through Ur nose without actually involving Ur lungs" I think this correspond to ~2'27 in the video --- sort of country intuitive - not work hard, but relax. (If we can raise Adam's apple up and down at ease while sealing the air from the lung, I feel like that will do the trick - like effortless effort) THANKS - and quite interesting to learn a new trick!
Even if you dive to only 20 meters, the Frenzel will make your dives a LOT more enjoyable, at least that's my experiences. A way how learning the Frenzel, is first to learn the theorics and then do like this : 1 full inhale, try 5 times to equalize, then full exhale, try 5 times to exhalize, and then repeat for like 10 min. The first minutes you will be struggling hard but at the end you will be mastering the method
+johnny k Freediving you can assend as fast as you want. Scuba diving you need to slow your assent. The reason has to do with Scuba divers breathing compressed air at depth, while freedivers do not, so they avoid the risk.
I went diving 2 months ago i was taught the nose pinch equalizing method. After the dive for about a little more than a week I've been getting this noise in my ears like strange sensation but it went away. Did this happen to anyone of you?
Hey There Tyler. It's a common problem. please check out my video on "Vasalva" equalization first - you can find it by looking through my channels list of videos. They method is much better suited for people who cannot equalize at all. Frenzel is only something that is needed for more advanced divers. And once your vasalva is good, the frenzel is an easy step.
I developed a technique of equalization through trial and error. I 'close my throat' and do as though I'm forcing to swallow but I don't have to squeeze my nose. I found it to be more efficient than the valsalva. I've never gotten the chance to use this technique below 12m(crappy scuba fins) so I can't say if it could be done at depths greater than 20m. I'll be getting my gara professionals soon so I will soon find out
Hi, im just wondering what is the differences between Fattah Frenzel and Frenzel Maneuver? and when should we do each of them for equalizing? Could you make it clear to me? Thanks..
You need some air in your mouth for the Frenzel, but "cheeks full" would be quite impossible for a freediver to acheive deep down. I would say "cheeks full" is nonsense.
Did you mean closing the epiglottis, the exact same thing we close when swallowing. I'm confused why it's even possible to consciously control yourself to close it when you're not swallowing if it's not possible to consciously control yourself to not close it when you are swallowing.
@Freediver HD I want some help. I am 15 years old and i can hold my breath for about 1 minute and a half (i don't know if it's good). When i tried to free dive this somer, i went like 4 meters and my ears hurt. Have you any suggests? Also, if i could go deeper i didn't really understand the 3er step of the Frenzel method. Can you re say it?
+Thodoris Paparrigopoulos Aμα πας σε τέτοιο βάθος και δεν κάνεις equalazing δηλαδή η πίεση στα αυτιά σου να είναι ίδια με αυτήν γύρω σου εννοείτε θα σου πονέσουν τα αυτιά, γιατι δέχονται μεγάλη πίεση, δοκίμασε να καταπινεις ή δοκίμασε αυτό που δείχνει στο video δηλαδή να κλείσεις την μύτη σου και να φυσήξεις μέχρι να φύγει η πιεση
This technique is definitely more difficult for beginners. Try my other video: "Freediving Equalization - Head Down with Valsalva Method" - this video is much more focused on people like you.
Yeah will do :) What mask do you use? the one i have at the moment is leaking through the seam where the lens meeys the mask so i may aswell buy something decent this time.
Whenever i try to equalise nothing happens and i feel like i have to force it. My ears are killing me and sometimes my teeth hurt aswell, does this happen to anyone else?
Thank you for the video when i went 12 feet underwater i didnt know what to do so im like theres nothing else to do so the pain is worth handling and it hurt bad
u see the soft palate is a muscle situated on the back top of ur mouths, this muscle controls the flow of air to your nose and Eustachian tubes. try rotating an exhale from mouth to nose and u will feel it moving.this muscle is coupled with the epiglottis,meaning once the epiglottis is closed so is the soft palate,meaning u cant push the air from ur mouth to your ears to equalize.do a search for frenzel fattah for the steps to control and uncouple the soft palate.cant post link for some reason.
I'm 12 if that effects anything. But I have loved the ocean but I can swim down 3 quarters of the way down in a 8ft pool but then I have to come up because of the pressure on my ears. When I went on a plane awhile back I blew air into my ears really aggressively (didn't know it would hurt) holding my nose and it hurt like hell now whenever my ears are pressured I'm scared to put air into them like he's doing. What do you have to do to equalize the pressure so it doesn't hurt? Please respond with help and answer thank you
like I stated in the previous comment do a search for Frenzel Fattah to learn the various exercises u need to perform, I don't see why being a singer should prevent u from controlling those muscles if anything it should be easier for u. the best way to test if u can frenzel, inflate a balloon place in mouth, and concentrate on letting the air escape through your nose.
Hey i went scuba diving inFiji when i noticed i couldnt equalise the pressure in my ears, i tried all kinds of things and even the things in the videos that you subscribe but nothing seems to work :( is there maybe something else i can try to unblock my eustachian tubes ?
I haven't gone deeper than about 35 feet (11 meters), so I don't know if my usually equalization method would work at deeper ranges or not, but it works for high altitude (aircraft, elevators, etc). It's a method that I taught myself in swimming class, & I don't know if it has a name. It's like a stifled yawn, in which I use jaw muscles to pull my ear canals open while keeping my mouth closed. I never hold my nose to equalize my ears.
Hey its me again, so when you hold your nose, where should you blow the air? straight through your nose or straight through your ears. I dont know where you blow the air!
I don´t do anything else than the frenzel technique. I find it easier and I also don´t like the idea of pinching nose and pushing (forcing) blood into my head under the water surface. Much more effort. Frenzel is the way to go!
Thanks Calvin. Do you mind reading through some of the comments in the vid, i think some might be useful to you... some people had commented on the past on how i could have described it better.
+Calvin Krause Its kind of the same when you swallow. The difference was you don't actually swallow the air in your mouth since your throat was close. But thats how you get the back of your tongue to reach for the soft part in the back of your throat
Hi, Dean. I'm struggling to learn this technique. I can feel my ears full of air when I do this, I also can hear like a squueze sound in my ears. Is that mean my frenzel work? But I havent test it under water yet. I only practice in dry land for now. And one more question, lets say I manage to equalise with this method under water, should I trap the air in my mouth that I used when do the mouth-fill? Or should I return it back to lung? Because when I try to return the air back to the lung, my ears feels like unequalize anymore. Hope you can understand my stupid question. Sorry for that bad english.
what ever air you have in your month - keep is in your mouth.. if you need go deeper and equalize again you will need it. The air should be kept behind your teeth, not in your cheeks.
riko sp same process, its all about getting the tubs in your ears warmed up - using a rope, and going down pulling down the line. I just used the frenzel to demonstrate using the rope.
Valsalva never works. It failed me totally. I had really hard time doing free immersion as I felt short on breath very quickly one after one valsalva. I'm practicing Frenzel now, it's a bit confusing but I need it anyway.
i am hoping you can help me....i don't have any problem equalizing my ears but there are times i get back to the surface and i notice blood in my mask and some weird pain from around my eyes. have you ever experienced blood in your mask or pain around your eyes while diving?
same for me. my instructor says its quite common for who has weak sinus and you need to take a full rest for a few days to recover it. otherwise it will keep hurting you. and you need to keep the best condition before free diving .
+Ronnie wilson HI Ronnie, I believe this is actually failure to equalise your mask as you go deeper. What happens is the pressure causes a vacuum in the mask which bursts blood vessels in the eyes/sinues and causes the event you experienced. From a scuba perspective this is easily solved by using your air supply to breathe out and equalise the mask but harder with freediving. Maybe try using tiny amounts of air in your nose to qualise the mask
All a nose clip does is permanently close your nose. This means you don't need need to use your hand to pinch your nose closed. However using a nose clips means you cant use a normal diving mask, you need to use it in conjunction with 'fluid googles' if you wanna see well underwater - and those things suck for regular diving, cause you have water permanently in your eyes - competition and serious training time only.
Hey, great vids still! I am so close to getting a GoPro as I told you a while ago. I have used valsalva all of the time I have been diving and can easily do 75 feet on an average day. Hopefully this will take me deeper and most importantly, longer! Also I received my Cressi Tecnica in 3.5mm. I will post a vid. Maybe you can check it out!
Not sure I'm doing it right. I don't think I'm using my tongue at all. I am moving muscles in my neck. But I can do it with my lungs empty. I'll count it as a success. Thanks. I'll use the technique tomorrow on my spear fishing trip.
But, please... Read my first comment. I am a diver. A scuba diver and a freediver too. You need to pinch your nose with your hand for equalise your ears (you not need to pinch your nose, when you need to equalise the mask - mostly in freediving). Thats why the diver mask have a smooth silicone nose cover. But... Mi first comment is about a totally other thing. The video above is about Frenzel technique of equalisation and there is a technical version doing it handsfree, but it happens internally in the head/mouth/nose - this have nothing to do with the mask.
Tomas Pressel - Freediving VTO is something you can't learn, I am sure it's by instinct. Rarely divers learn it and if it worked, I heard it need years of practice. So no worries 1% can do VTO in the world by luck, their tubes are already very wide and manage to click their ear drums voluntarily to equalise
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Great video, I followed the steps (1:mouthfill with air, 2:closing the epligotis, and 3:using the tongue as a piston to compress the air back and upwards to pop the ears) and it worked pretty well. Rolling the jaw and lowering it a few times followed by a few Valsavas makes it easier for me by providing flexibility and loosening up the Eustachian Tubes before I do the Frenzel. I'll continue to practice the technique frequenly. Thanks again for sharing.
Man i gotta thank you heaps ay, i was really struggling to do vasalva technique for some reason underwater, but once i learnt this technique did not need it at all! cheers for the vid!
This is great, I'm going to copy a link to this video into the video I'm uploading to TH-cam tomorrow. It's about "equalizing" to dive to the bottom of the deep end. It's certainly not as advance as your description but it's also intended for kids. Anyway thanks,
That's a fairly good explanation for two different things - the Mouthfill and the Frenzel. IMPORTANT NOTE re Mouthfill: The safe way of moving air up into the mouth is by sucking it up by a "Reverse Pack" - the belly needs to be absolutely relaxed! Trying to "push up" air with your belly will lead to severe injuries, even at shallow depths. Here is one way how yo can exercise that: Fully exhale, then sit erect, pinch your nose and bulge your cheeks to suck up air from your already deflated lungs. There you go, this works only if your belly is absolutely soft. Thanks for the good work. Oli Christen, AIDA Master Instructor.
You explain it very effectively, and I copy it very quickly; at once! Thanks!!!
I used to do this when I way younger just for fun so it was really easy to do from watching this video :D Thanks for the great tips man.
This was exactly what I needed to hear. I recently learned the frenzel technique from a molchanov short. i had it confused with handsfree. when i saw alexei pinch his nose and building pressure in his nostrils. my mind was blown. when i tried to copy it and it worked building pressure even better than valsalva my mind was super blown!!! but what you said was what i needed to hear; that between 20 and 30 meters valsalva becomes very difficult which is what i've been experiencing for quite some time, thinking there was perhaps something wrong with me. I could tell right away from the ease at which i could produce copious amounts of ear pressure that this was going to be a huge game changer now! and yeah, i've had some issues telling if i was doing it correctly in the water or if my usual insticts for valsalva were kicking in, but as you've said at the end, a way i can test it is to try and do it on vacuum. neat idea. still the coolest og freediving content creator on yt.
Ah thanks for the complements. Wish i wasn't demonetized, or I would have loved to have continued the channel. All the best with your equalization.
@@freediverhd if you don't mind me asking, why did you get demonitized? was it the historical war stuff?
Hey Bret Thanks - Keep me updated on your progress!!
Thanks for the vid! For me, this seems to feel a lot easier and much quicker to equalize than the Valsava, and without the uncomfortable pressure.
the troubleshooting tips, empty lungs and then try is a great one to know. its so hard to know if im doing it without this check. im still doing valsalva, but working on the frenzel but its a conscious choice that is hard without experience. so the simple step by step is usefull but the trouble shooting was the best!
I'm a visual learner so thank you for this video
This method comes straight from my freediving course material, and this is not listed as a step. However I 100% agree with your comment that it could be the divers problem.I'm trying this again following all the steps in the video. And I seem to be able to succeed without an extra step of consciously having the open the epiglottis, as my epiglottis remains consistently open, for me I have to consciously close it.However There room for improvement in the video, and thanks for pointing that out.
Best video I found explained this maneuver many thx 👍🌹🌹🌹
I love your videos you explain very well
hahaha its great finding out there is a next technique, me and my mates started diving this really deep and clear sinkhole, up till then i was using valsalva because i hadn't really needed anything else. we were diving a shallower pond where i would reach the bottom and waste some time down there, about 10 metres deep. But at this new spot Instead of wasting time I just kept going deeper, I started really feeling the squeeze and stopped being able to equalize. Now i know what to do haha :)
AWESOME!!! Got it done at the first attempt!! THX!!
+Andres Garcia How did you get it? I have no idea how to move the throat and tongue?
Oh thank god iv been doin this all mi time of spearfishing , 4 yrs now , only can reach to max 20 meters but i do this at any depth , but i thought it was just me haha, i would explain to my mates how to do it but i could never explain it hah, but nothing better then leaveing your nose alone ;) , you are great at what yu do ! Helpin everyone out, cheers mate , safediveing!
Frenzel... yes. Exhale and try on dry land is one way to test if you are doing the frenzel correcly
Depends how good your BTV is. If it fails at a certain depth, then the frenzel method can continue take you down deeper. To be honest, ive never done this BVT method, but from what ive head, some people have success with it in the shallower depths, but find it stops working at a certain depth.. a good frenzel mouth-full will take you down reaaaalllllyyy deep
Thx nice and quick and not 30min Video
im quite keen to learn this technique.I see you capetonian..
I cant equalize head first but i can equalize feet first using balsalva? What more do i need
This is really frustrating for me, I can't tell if I am doing it or not. When I blow out all of my air and even reverse pack a few times I can still equalize the way I usually do which is blowing a little air out while pinching your nose. I'm not sure if I've been accidently doing the frenzel this entire time but I can equalize perfectly with absolutely no air in my lungs using the normal way
I just noticed that even if my lungs are full of air, it's still easier to do the frenzel than to push air from my lungs into my ears because my cheeks are stronger at compressing air than my lungs. I think I may have been doing the frenzel instinctively all along but not while diving which a hardly ever do and I do it with my cheeks, not my tongue. If most people are the same as me, then maybe this video is totally useless for everyone but those few unusual people who don't do the frenzel instinctively like the probably the uploader of this video.
blackbombchu Me too!
Hey I have a quick question, when I plug my nose and swallow my ears PLUG up lol is that normal?
BEST EXPLINATION EVER! You are the best, THANK YOU!
I got it in 2 minutes with your lesson when every other lesson else failed, I am so happy! :D but yet I still have a problem.... some of the times only one ear is equalizing/pressurizing on land. Perhaps underwater it will be different? Do you have any advice for this?
Thank you again very much - From Greece, CHEERS!
28 years spearfishing mate. Beginner with Frenzel here not spearfighing or equalizing ;). I have an ear condition, valsalva just doesnt work, I could only equalise by swalowing. I just found out about frenzel over the summer. Had 3 people try to teach me (2 plus you), one is a 70m freediver. You explained it by far the best. Thanks again :)
Why the heck doesn't he show the toungue positioning on step 3?
+Freediver HD, so as I am diving down, I need to equalize, is there also some sort of de-equalizing as I swim up? Or can I swim up after I equalized at let´s say 10m? thanks :)
Yes, swim straight up. Air needs to be forced into your ears through equalization on the way down. However on the way up, the air expands and comes out of ur ears naturally, so there is no such thing as de-equalize.
Ok. Thanks very much for the advice :)
Could you do a video close up of the throat action while performing Frenzel? I think that's the hardest part of frenzel. We know the tongue is the piston. We just don't know what to use as the crankshaft and rod to push the piston upward.
your friend is a genius.
This may be a dumb question, but is it a good idea to remove wax from your ears before a dive? I also think I have a hard time equalizing because as soon as I feel that my ears are full of air I get an urge to swallow. I think that causes air to escape but it usually happens when I'm practicing out of the water. Do you get the same urge on a dive?
Excellent video, thanks !
Thank you that method works when I go deep I can't equalize my ears but that worked
i think im doing it right but i cant seem to equalise on dry land unlike valsalva where i feel the pop. Can anyone shed some light?
is it kind of like swallowing while holding your nose?
haha your comment helped me figure this out
You are a fucking genius:D Thx
Something that was weird was that I already knew how to do it without even freediving having started freediving yet. I would just do it randomly. The funny thing was that for a couple of weeks I was thinking that i wasn't doing it right but when I came across a video that used a partial close of the nose and then started doing it I could hear that familiar noise of air going in and out of the nose and from then on I knew that I had already mastered it. My tip to u is don't worry about closing off ur throat just relax and try to breathe through Ur nose without actually involving Ur lungs, hope this helped :D
RIGHT! -- "just relax and try to breathe through Ur nose without actually involving Ur lungs" I think this correspond to ~2'27 in the video --- sort of country intuitive - not work hard, but relax. (If we can raise Adam's apple up and down at ease while sealing the air from the lung, I feel like that will do the trick - like effortless effort) THANKS - and quite interesting to learn a new trick!
Thanks for your Video
Even if you dive to only 20 meters, the Frenzel will make your dives a LOT more enjoyable, at least that's my experiences. A way how learning the Frenzel, is first to learn the theorics and then do like this : 1 full inhale, try 5 times to equalize, then full exhale, try 5 times to exhalize, and then repeat for like 10 min. The first minutes you will be struggling hard but at the end you will be mastering the method
How many times do you have to equalise when descending to about 10-15 metres from surface?
Hello. When you dive to a depth lets say 10 - 15 meters it is important to go up to the surface slowly, or you can go up as fast as you want?
+johnny k Freediving you can assend as fast as you want. Scuba diving you need to slow your assent. The reason has to do with Scuba divers breathing compressed air at depth, while freedivers do not, so they avoid the risk.
+Freediver HD Ok, thank you
I went diving 2 months ago i was taught the nose pinch equalizing method. After the dive for about a little more than a week I've been getting this noise in my ears like strange sensation but it went away. Did this happen to anyone of you?
Hey pls help any way i equalise only my right ear get this pop but i cant with my left?
Hey There Tyler. It's a common problem. please check out my video on "Vasalva" equalization first - you can find it by looking through my channels list of videos. They method is much better suited for people who cannot equalize at all. Frenzel is only something that is needed for more advanced divers. And once your vasalva is good, the frenzel is an easy step.
I developed a technique of equalization through trial and error. I 'close my throat' and do as though I'm forcing to swallow but I don't have to squeeze my nose. I found it to be more efficient than the valsalva. I've never gotten the chance to use this technique below 12m(crappy scuba fins) so I can't say if it could be done at depths greater than 20m. I'll be getting my gara professionals soon so I will soon find out
Hi, im just wondering what is the differences between Fattah Frenzel and Frenzel Maneuver? and when should we do each of them for equalizing? Could you make it clear to me? Thanks..
they are the same thing.
i read some where that doing Fattah Frenzel requires cheeks with full of air.. so Im really confused..
You need some air in your mouth for the Frenzel, but "cheeks full" would be quite impossible for a freediver to acheive deep down. I would say "cheeks full" is nonsense.
molto interessanti i tuoi video....bravo,ciao
do i hae to do any kind of equalization if i dive at 3.5 - 5 meters?
thanks so much for this. ur awesome! come back to moalboal philippines! :)
Did you mean closing the epiglottis, the exact same thing we close when swallowing. I'm confused why it's even possible to consciously control yourself to close it when you're not swallowing if it's not possible to consciously control yourself to not close it when you are swallowing.
@Freediver HD
I want some help. I am 15 years old and i can hold my breath for about 1 minute and a half (i don't know if it's good). When i tried to free dive this somer, i went like 4 meters and my ears hurt. Have you any suggests?
Also, if i could go deeper i didn't really understand the 3er step of the Frenzel method. Can you re say it?
+Thodoris Paparrigopoulos Aμα πας σε τέτοιο βάθος και δεν κάνεις equalazing δηλαδή η πίεση στα αυτιά σου να είναι ίδια με αυτήν γύρω σου εννοείτε θα σου πονέσουν τα αυτιά, γιατι δέχονται μεγάλη πίεση, δοκίμασε να καταπινεις ή δοκίμασε αυτό που δείχνει στο video δηλαδή να κλείσεις την μύτη σου και να φυσήξεις μέχρι να φύγει η πιεση
johnny k ευχαριστω φιλε!
This technique is definitely more difficult for beginners. Try my other video: "Freediving Equalization - Head Down with Valsalva Method" - this video is much more focused on people like you.
Thanks for sharing
Yeah will do :)
What mask do you use? the one i have at the moment is leaking through the seam where the lens meeys the mask so i may aswell buy something decent this time.
Thankfully, GoPro3 doesn't require the dive housing anymore. Dive housing is necessary for GoPro1 and 2 though.
Whenever i try to equalise nothing happens and i feel like i have to force it. My ears are killing me and sometimes my teeth hurt aswell, does this happen to anyone else?
Thank you for the video when i went 12 feet underwater i didnt know what to do so im like theres nothing else to do so the pain is worth handling and it hurt bad
I can do 15m without special training but this guy like a seal :)
u see the soft palate is a muscle situated on the back top of ur mouths, this muscle controls the flow of air to your nose and Eustachian tubes. try rotating an exhale from mouth to nose and u will feel it moving.this muscle is coupled with the epiglottis,meaning once the epiglottis is closed so is the soft palate,meaning u cant push the air from ur mouth to your ears to equalize.do a search for frenzel fattah for the steps to control and uncouple the soft palate.cant post link for some reason.
Wow:D just after 1 min I actually got it yeah:D!!!
maelström does it hurt.
thx, great video! I'm going to practice underwater now! :D
could you please help me? it worked only one ear
I'm 12 if that effects anything. But I have loved the ocean but I can swim down 3 quarters of the way down in a 8ft pool but then I have to come up because of the pressure on my ears. When I went on a plane awhile back I blew air into my ears really aggressively (didn't know it would hurt) holding my nose and it hurt like hell now whenever my ears are pressured I'm scared to put air into them like he's doing. What do you have to do to equalize the pressure so it doesn't hurt? Please respond with help and answer thank you
Ethan putnam just do small short puffs hoding your nose close and you mouth ofc
you should never force
Josh LeSage .
like I stated in the previous comment do a search for Frenzel Fattah to learn the various exercises u need to perform, I don't see why being a singer should prevent u from controlling those muscles if anything it should be easier for u. the best way to test if u can frenzel, inflate a balloon place in mouth, and concentrate on letting the air escape through your nose.
What!!! I just did it first try! Great teacher!
Hi. If I can do BTV, should I still do Frenzel? Thanks for all the videos!
I'm lucky I did this way for equalizing while learning how todo it.
Hey i went scuba diving inFiji when i noticed i couldnt equalise the pressure in my ears, i tried all kinds of things and even the things in the videos that you subscribe but nothing seems to work :( is there maybe something else i can try to unblock my eustachian tubes ?
I did it on the first try!
I haven't gone deeper than about 35 feet (11 meters), so I don't know if my usually equalization method would work at deeper ranges or not, but it works for high altitude (aircraft, elevators, etc). It's a method that I taught myself in swimming class, & I don't know if it has a name. It's like a stifled yawn, in which I use jaw muscles to pull my ear canals open while keeping my mouth closed. I never hold my nose to equalize my ears.
Hey l have a question, can you practice it on land then try in the water?
Hey its me again, so when you hold your nose, where should you blow the air? straight through your nose or straight through your ears. I dont know where you blow the air!
Do you have subtitle ? Because I dont understand
Thanks bro👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you, man!
I don´t do anything else than the frenzel technique. I find it easier and I also don´t like the idea of pinching nose and pushing (forcing) blood into my head under the water surface. Much more effort. Frenzel is the way to go!
Martin Huszár
Even for frenzel, u have to pinch ur nose, otherwise u r doing VTO
Great video Hopefully i can get down 20m one day!
thanks
I don't understand how to push the air with my tongue..
+Calvin Krause front of your tongue behind the back of your teeth, then kinda raise the mid and back of your tongue up.
+Freediver HD Okay I guess it takes some practise.. Anyways, you have my subscription :)
Thanks Calvin. Do you mind reading through some of the comments in the vid, i think some might be useful to you... some people had commented on the past on how i could have described it better.
+Freediver HD Sure, thanks!
+Calvin Krause Its kind of the same when you swallow. The difference was you don't actually swallow the air in your mouth since your throat was close. But thats how you get the back of your tongue to reach for the soft part in the back of your throat
but you still have to hold your nose? what equalizing technique can we do without holding the nose?
Hi, Dean. I'm struggling to learn this technique. I can feel my ears full of air when I do this, I also can hear like a squueze sound in my ears. Is that mean my frenzel work? But I havent test it under water yet. I only practice in dry land for now. And one more question, lets say I manage to equalise with this method under water, should I trap the air in my mouth that I used when do the mouth-fill? Or should I return it back to lung? Because when I try to return the air back to the lung, my ears feels like unequalize anymore. Hope you can understand my stupid question. Sorry for that bad english.
what ever air you have in your month - keep is in your mouth.. if you need go deeper and equalize again you will need it. The air should be kept behind your teeth, not in your cheeks.
Freediver HD awesome I actually got it right!
i cant do frenzel when my head down, what should i do? more practice or any other i can do. sory for my bad english.
do this: th-cam.com/video/HqFkB_jdV1A/w-d-xo.html
if this applies also to the Frenzel technique?
riko sp same process, its all about getting the tubs in your ears warmed up - using a rope, and going down pulling down the line. I just used the frenzel to demonstrate using the rope.
+Freediver HD thank you very much !
When you try using your tongue as a piston, does the front of your tongue remain touching the roof of your mouth?
ı jump on the boat to sea and get injured right ear how can ı protect my self to jump in the sea and not get hurt. ?
adnan özdemir clamp your ear
Valsalva never works. It failed me totally. I had really hard time doing free immersion as I felt short on breath very quickly one after one valsalva. I'm practicing Frenzel now, it's a bit confusing but I need it anyway.
then you are on the right way - for freediving, there is no reason to do Valsalva!
I think it may be a slight variation to the frenzel
When u try this underwater for the first time in ur life does it hurt or what do u exactly feel or hear ur ears do
When I do it the air doesn't go anywhere it just stays in my mouth
i am hoping you can help me....i don't have any problem equalizing my ears but there are times i get back to the surface and i notice blood in my mask and some weird pain from around my eyes. have you ever experienced blood in your mask or pain around your eyes while diving?
same for me.
my instructor says its quite common for who has weak sinus and you need to take a full rest for a few days to recover it. otherwise it will keep hurting you. and you need to keep the best condition before free diving .
+Ronnie wilson HI Ronnie, I believe this is actually failure to equalise your mask as you go deeper. What happens is the pressure causes a vacuum in the mask which bursts blood vessels in the eyes/sinues and causes the event you experienced. From a scuba perspective this is easily solved by using your air supply to breathe out and equalise the mask but harder with freediving. Maybe try using tiny amounts of air in your nose to qualise the mask
Thanks for the video , didnt manage to equalize with frenzel thought :/
By pushing your tongue like a piston you meant to dry swallow! Right?
how can a noseclip help with equalization
All a nose clip does is permanently close your nose. This means you don't need need to use your hand to pinch your nose closed. However using a nose clips means you cant use a normal diving mask, you need to use it in conjunction with 'fluid googles' if you wanna see well underwater - and those things suck for regular diving, cause you have water permanently in your eyes - competition and serious training time only.
well I thank you for answering me so quickly and keep up the videos I find them very informing
Hey, great vids still! I am so close to getting a GoPro as I told you a while ago. I have used valsalva all of the time I have been diving and can easily do 75 feet on an average day. Hopefully this will take me deeper and most importantly, longer! Also I received my Cressi Tecnica in 3.5mm. I will post a vid. Maybe you can check it out!
Thanks
do we need ear plugs?
Not sure I'm doing it right. I don't think I'm using my tongue at all. I am moving muscles in my neck. But I can do it with my lungs empty. I'll count it as a success. Thanks. I'll use the technique tomorrow on my spear fishing trip.
hey. my friend can do it without moving his tough and with moth open. He says, he do it with some muscels in his head.
That was very helpful
This is an easy task, but i cannot learn handfree Frenzel. Tried a lot... :(
When the divers dive in the water, their diving masks act as nose pinchers because no air gets in the mask.
That's a total bullshit, sorry. You need to pinch your nose even in the mask. Othervise you blow out the air through the mask.
No need to be hostile, the diving mask covers the eyes and nose only, not the whole head.
But, please... Read my first comment. I am a diver. A scuba diver and a freediver too.
You need to pinch your nose with your hand for equalise your ears (you not need to pinch your nose, when you need to equalise the mask - mostly in freediving). Thats why the diver mask have a smooth silicone nose cover.
But... Mi first comment is about a totally other thing. The video above is about Frenzel technique of equalisation and there is a technical version doing it handsfree, but it happens internally in the head/mouth/nose - this have nothing to do with the mask.
Tomas Pressel - Freediving
VTO is something you can't learn, I am sure it's by instinct. Rarely divers learn it and if it worked, I heard it need years of practice. So no worries 1% can do VTO in the world by luck, their tubes are already very wide and manage to click their ear drums voluntarily to equalise
I wonder how someone would equalize his sinuses with BTV.
im still confused, is there an easier way? Just went out for my first freedive yesterday and my ears were hurting like fuck.
I have always done frenzel no matter what the depth haha
you help me...tha.....nks!!!!
I have actually done this buy accident once