So the first thing we want to talk about is making sure that we have the nose protected as much as possible. Because one of the biggest problems and the issues with breathing is that water going up the nose is uncomfortable for everybody. Doesn't matter how good of a swimmer you are, you're doing everything you can to make sure that water doesn't go up your nose, to the point that now we're seeing Olympic athletes win Olympic championships with nose clips on during your backstroke races. So some people can equalize that pressure and not have to worry about that other people can teach skills that will help with that. And sometimes the Olympians just say you know what I've got enough to think about, I'm going to go ahead and put on these $2 piece of metal over my nose to make sure that I don't have to worry about it. So the first thing that that I like to do when I'm working on how to make sure that water doesn't go up my nose. And sometimes I do this during turns. Or if I want a more tactile or visceral feeling while I'm swimming is I will actually make noise and so this is called humming. And there really is no way that you can put your face in the water making noise and not have air come out. So it's determining where air comes out. And so just simply by humming, closing your mouth and humming, you will force air out of your nose. So first I'll do it at the surface and then I'll go a little bit deeper. So I'm gonna put on my goggles. So I don't get water in my eyes. And I'm just going to take the mouth underwater, the mouth and the nose underwater just slightly, and I will just start humming and you'll see what happens.

Now I'm going to go all the way underwater so you can see it a little bit more closely. And that is the simple act of humming to make sure that arrows coming out of your nose.

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Humming in the Water