Stoney Cove - Wed 16 Jan

[Mal Bridgeman]

Originally Posted by sailorbuoy

OK i've got hold of some snaps from the Stoney trip - what surprises me is that I seem to be quite head up - despite the rolling forward feeling - gives me a bit more confidence to have another go and try Mal's archy-back thingy...

Any other thoughts?

That archy-back thingy can be fairly helpful

What's quite interesting and more obvious in the second pic, is that you have a good body shape/outline .... it just needs to be rotated forwards 20deg or so. When you do that you will surely feel your feet start to rise and then it will feel like it's going to pot as your feet rise towards the surface.

The things you can do to help stop that:

1) Arch your back more - as it was once, very imaginatively described .... think that you are sh*gging a leper .... you don't want to make any other contact with the individual
2) Tip you head back more ... in the pics it looks like your head is hitting the first stage already and you are still "looking down" so you might need to lower the tank 1 -1.5" to help with that
3) Stretch you legs back a bit to counteract the tipping
4) Hold your arms out in front of you as though you are holding an imaginary bar at your chin level. Gas in your suit will migrate there and give you a slight bit of buoyancy help.

HTH
Mal

[sailorbuoy]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

What's quite interesting and more obvious in the second pic, is that you have a good body shape

LOL.... my wife disagrees and thinks I need to lose a couple of stone!

Thanks for the advice - will try it out next time (Wraysbury 13 Feb Night dive).

Rich