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My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.
by vesterde 24d ago
My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.
- adamgordonbell 24d agoI'm not a diver but I suspect it can be learned. I have allergy issues that cause my ears to not equalize when allergies are hitting and I think I just learned how to do this. its just sort of muscle that can sort of be lightly controlled. Controlling one side vs the other I can't really manage.
- vesterde 24d agoYe ye, she is frustrated it's taking so long to learn it. It's so valuable for divers.
- andai 23d agoMy mum taught me the ear popping thing, while we were traveling by air, to relieve the ear pressure. I can do it on command but never paid attention to how before. It's basically "yawning manually". There's a couple different muscles activating at the same time, most irrelevant to the popping, I can't control them individually yet. (Probably learnable, if I practiced I could probably get the pop more efficiently.) But yeah, just yawn real wide, that should do it. A lot of stuff is learnable, like I couldn't move my ears but taught myself how to do it because I was bored.
- zhivota 23d agoFor me I describe it more as trying to open your jaw with the muscles near your ear, while holding the jaw in place with the main jaw muscles. Like an isometric hold. I actually didn't know I could do it until now, I could always get the click and it's how I clear ear popping sensations but I didn't realize it I push it harder I get the hollow voice thing and apparently it's useful for diving. Cool.
- andai 23d agoMy jaw also moves in the process but it seems like I can pop my ear without moving my jaw. So it might be a different muscle, I'm not sure.