Hands Free Equalisation | How to Equalise without pinching your nose | VTO and BTV Equalisation 

Hands Free Equalization (daily exercises): 1. Lifting and dropping throat with tongue in neutral position. (Do this for 2 minutes. Mouth is closed). 2. Lifting and dropping throat with tongue stuck out. (Do this for 2 minutes). 3. Lifting and dropping throat with tongue folded back. (Do this for 2 minutes). 4. Press soft palate up into the position that opens the eustasian tubes. Hold for 5 seconds, relax for 5 seconds, repeat. (Do this for 2 minutes). 5. Kabilabati, to increase blood flow to the head. (Do this for 5 minutes = 30 of breathing: 30 seconds of relaxation). 6. Hum the letter 'A'. Try some long continuous hums, then some bursting hums. (Do this for 2 minutes). 7. Hum the letter 'N'. Try some long continuous hums, then some bursting hums. (Do this for 2 minutes.) 8. Spend 2 minutes putting it all together: lifting up the soft palate, pumping with the throat, getting the ears to crackle, etc.

I live up in the mountains and there is still snow on the ground so I have no access to a pool but I can't wait to get wet again and actually try this under water. I followed along with the video with some success but unlike most of the people here it did Not come naturally, and I've been diving since 1989...completely WRONG!! I quit diving for a short time when they closed the abalone fishery in Northern Californina but I couldn't stay away, I love diving too much. So I'm practicing the tables and will now start doing these excercises, faithfully. This will help my diving so much. Thank you Adam, you are a great instructor and motivator, these tricks and tips are horrible but you make them fun!!

Learned this as a child and only realized you were teaching what I already knew towards the end of the video haha

I love your energy man. Sometimes I just watch your videos to make me happy. God bless you.

I've been no-hands equalizing as long as I can remember. I never actively learned it. It just was there. Interesting to see it explained - I could not have explain it myself :)

Thank you Adam, It just worked for me as I'm now back from a dive in Croatia! 😊I'm now in apnea diving almost 20 years and never tought I could do it. Your exercises helped me and in 3 days I done it! ❤😀 Have to say that now I will have to adapt better because is still in progress and makes me a bit more nervous but slowly I will get the proper relaxation. Today it worked till 24 m cnf🎉😊😊😊

If you want instant feedback for when you open the eustachian tube try this: During the exercise to determine if you opened the eustachian tube hold an earbud with loud music directly to your nose. The music becomes significantly clearer from one moment to then next.

I just found you Adam. I love your videos, They are so informative and mostly I LOVE how you and your family are so happy. the lockdown videos are the best. THANK YOU!

Best freediving tutorials ever. I like your way of explaining and simplifying information, that is really not easy work. Thanks and we looking for more 😃

You almost got me to become a patreon. Just a little more! You are a great teacher. Always coming back to you since years.. Thank you

Thanks for posting this. I grew up diving and have always used this method, but your explanation of the method is much clearer(my conception of it was always 'swallow and wiggle ears at the same time') and has helped me to equalize much more easily

OMG!!! Adam!! Thank you so much!!! I am going to try this ... and hopefully i will be ready for the next trip to Hawaii :) you are so awesome . May you and the people you love are safe and healthy!!!!

Thank you as soon as I am able I will be support you as your business and work is very important....

Fantastic! My ears feel so much more open! Thanks!

You have the best free-diving instructional videos Sir!

Thank you so much Adam! Guess i'm in the 0.1% cause i was able to do hands free equalization with ease by using your pointers. Keep up the great videos, you're an inspiration and a great help!

Thank you adam !!! Beautifull video ! i love them !

Omg thank you so much!! This was so helpful and I thought I was hopeless that I couldn’t dive. You taught me so much!!😄

Awesome video Adam! I've always been able to equalize hands free, but one of my mates I dive with can't. I had no idea how to explain to him how I do it, because I didn't even know you could learn it! I'll definitely be showing him this video so he has something to work on for our next dives.

Great content , Always love your videos man !!

This is sooooo descriptive thank you !

Hey man I watched your vid and thought it would of taken awhile to work out. But once in the water I did it first go, I couldn’t believe it. Great video mate, keep it up!

amazing Video , Adam!!

This is super useful, so many people want's to learn BTV or enhance their BTV skill. Thanks a lot!!!

Thanks for your time and the useful video.

Thanks Adam ! I start to feel it !

I didn't realize I was hands free EQ until I watched this. It's like yawning with a closed mouth

Thanks Adam! I started to practice the exercises and on the second day I was feeling those crackling sounds in the middle ear when lifting the soft palate!

Thank you so much for tech us how to equalize!

Just realized this is exactly what I do on an airplane. Blowing out holding my nose never worked for me.

Keep up the great work!!

great video Adam

very detailed, thank you my friend!!!!

So I’m new to all of this. I’m getting scuba and accidentally found this and watched it. I spend 6 hours trying to figure out how to do it, and then I got into the water and realized that I’ve known how to do it all my life lol. I just never tried doing it in water, only in the mountains haha

You are awasome...such an inspiration. Thank you for all the good tips. You are leaving my dream...You are like a merman...... ....keep the good work. God bless you.

I've been waiting for this! I don't think I will switch up from Frenzel though. I've been using it since I found your Frenzel video about a year ago. As always thank you for all your information, it has helped me out a million times!

Another one great video from Adam. Thanks! I try to do those exercises with my tongue at my working place in office. It wasn't good.

I couldn't do it, but finally I have enough information to do so. Thank you so much!

Super excited to find out this can be learned. I am lucky to have been able to do it as a kid, but I followed the video tutorial just to see if it lines up with the muscles that I have been using for years. Yes it does!! Especially hummming with your mouth closed and hearing your hummmm amplified from the inside. Also when I touch the soft palate with my finger, my soft palate gently pinches my finger when I am equalizing. These are perfect indicators, I can't wait to tell others that it's not just a gift from the ocean gods lol It is learnable.

Fantastic video! Thank you

This is pure gold. Plus I was certain Adam would know a lot about Adam's apple.

Just tried doing the Frenzel equalizing and I was so confused because I've been doing it hands-free forever! Thank you!

Hi Adam.. Thanks for the best video on RU-vid to explain this subject. I really could practice for two days and I have started to control the soft palette and could start feeling a pressure hands free.. But this pressure still not that enough as I believe need to practice more on dry and apply in several diving. 5 stars to your content.

you are amazing... but seems I need a long time. GREAT video

Thanks mate, really helpful you videos

That's nuts. Ace video, Adam.

so useful thanks go on with your wonderful stuff

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. gonna support your patreon page as soon as i get my first credit card xD

Love this. Super helpful bruv

Yeeess I can hear popping sounds🎉thanks a lot

Hi Adam Congrats on a great video, For almost twenty years I've been unable to explain to people how I equalise hands free. This is by far the best explanation I've seen, and I'm sure it will improve my own technique too! I just open my passages as I dive and maintain equilibrium, but once I go past 20m I have to start nose pinching to supplement and at 30 it's completely ineffective, and I can no longer hold the airway open. Are there natural limits with hands free, or with practice can you improve your resilience?

I've always been able to 'kind of' do this, but never on demand whenever I needed it easily. This will help me put the effort I need in the right spots so I can drain my inner ear when I'm sick... that's the most common time I use BTV.

Very well explained!

I had a shallow water blackout very recently due to an in ear barotrauma :( . Can't dive (for now) but NOP,. won't be skipping THESE videos. Nice job Adam 👍

I learn how to Equalize with you Adam!!!!❤❤ thank sow much!!! From Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷❤️

If uve watch 15min of this video without being able to do it, like it

Love this guy

Still dont get it but will try them till i get them thank you adam. I will support your patreon👍👍👍👍 love your video

thank you very very much

I have been doing this for years - self taught. I never knew it was so difficult for some folks, just came naturally for me.

My dad used to dive for work and when I was younger he quite simply explained to me that you need to carry out the first step of a yawn in your throat and make your ears click, I’ve never done any exercises I’ve just followed that rule and I’ve never had issues doing it. But the science behind what’s happening is really enjoyable and informative in this video you really know your stuff!

I tried during the video. My right ear plays along... now just to teach the left! A few gags along the way - Thanks Adam!

Thanks Adam!! i love your videos, i was to subscribe to your patreon advance program, but it sees it will cover only 6 days, i will do the suscription in Dec..

My fave AFD video so far!! I kept rewinding to see your ears wiggle!

Thanks!

thanks Adam

That's funny. Ever since I was a little kid I've always been able to pop my ears by just moving the muscles in my ear, funny enough when I went spearfishing today it was harder for me to pinch my nose and blow, so I just did what I always did when going on an airplane or driving up a mountain and well, I was able to feel no pain. I was actually googling equalizing methods to see if this is one of them and sure enough, it is.

Took me a while to realize why do you look and sound so familiar. You are a freediving Russell Brand!

I learned this as a child and never realized what it did until I started swimming deep and I needed to equalize. Just like some people can move their eyes around separately, make their hair do circles on their head, only move one pectoral muscle, or recently my friend showed me that he had wings, he used some weird muscle isolation and his shoulder blades shot straight up off his back. Honestly God just made us all with different talents and abilities.

Did it first try :o, great video

i like your new intro man! nice video, and i can frenzel now, i was the one who messaged you on facebook :D

I'm gonna need this.. cos I can't squeeze my nose to equalize without feeling lots of pain and/or getting into a sneezing fit!

Hi Adam! THe best video of the kind I have seen so far, also you are a nice person. I have been trying BTV passionately during the last 2,5 years. I was so far trying mainly the swallowing maneuver but what I managed was only to momentarily open the tubes, so little air coming in, not practical at all during dive. So, at first, thank you for helping me understand it is not the proper way, I have almost dismantled my jaw ! :-) Now, one question please, hope not getting tiring, I think other people will find the answer useful too: It is a different thing to me to yawn normally and to try yawning voluntarily. In a spontaneous yawn the tubes open and I feel a peculiar contraction of the muscles around them. I cannot reproduce this funny feeling when yawning voluntarily. My soft palate raises a lot , I think i contract the same muscles but nothing opens. I guess it is the tensor veli palatini (from what I have read, it is the muscle that does the job) I contract in the first case via some kind of indirect innervation. I wonder: Do all people have the ability to voluntarily contract this muscle ? Is it only a matter of training and understanding to do it , or some of us will never get it? Why since my palate raises, I get no tube opening? Thanks in advance, anyway you already helped me :-)

Wow! I tried this today. I was able to dive 11 meters down to the bottom (deepest I have been). Thank you so much! :)

thanks time to practice! 😎

Thanks for the tutorial Adam! I think I’m getting there, after playing around in a shallow pool, I went to the sea today and did dives to 10m, hands-free EQ with the head upside down. I followed the lead of not letting pressure buildup, so I'm equalising more often than I do normally, pretty much every second as I go down and it works (left tube is a little more stubborn) It’s an interesting feeling, no fullness like with a regular Frenzel-type eq, to the point that I'm wondering i’m really equalised, before realising that I’m at 10m and there is no pressure, discomfort. Just a couple of question - as I equalise, I get squishy/sucky sounds in the ear, which I guess are the tubes opening slowly. This is normal, yes? After a while (30 minutes or so) I’ve noticed the equalisation gets a little more difficult, it’s a little like muscle fatigue - is this normal as well, ie the muscles need to build up a little more to support the process during longer periods, or is it just technique? thanks a bunch! ben

cool vid!!!

cool! that is great and usefull video

thank you

So today I learned that ever since I was young I already knew how to equalize my ears without hands😂😂. The way I always described it as a youngin was like an earthquake sound as a walked on ants 😂😂 thought this was one of the unspoken gifts that everyone knew how to do ,like blurring your vision or making you voice deep like a demon outta hell 🤣. It took a 4 year old video to make me finally realize that the exact same feeling I feel when I equalize with my hand on nose is the exact same feeling without my hands😂. Thank you for this video … I don’t have money but I will subscribe n like every vid from now on ✨👍🏾✨

15:25 was hilarious. Thanks for this video. I'm pretty sure I'm on my way to getting this now 👍🏻

I've always been able to hands free equalise I learnt because I traveled a lot on planes between parents when I was younger and when it came to diving I thought I was just blowing against the pressure in the mask but turns out I'm doing this ahah 😅 Since watching Adams videos I've gone from 13m depth to 21m in around a month 🤘 thanks for all your help man also some of my friends here in the Maldives met Alexey today apparently really nice guy so jealous 🙈

Being a singer helps hugely with this, since you have to mess with your soft palette often to get correct singing vowel shapes.

İf i succes i ll f n patreon . İm f in excited to see a tutorial about this. Rispecto patronum. Really thanks

You have a great way of explaining how this works and how to start to get a feel for things. I just have to figure out how to lift the middle of my soft palate without going into a yawn…I kept going into a full yawn and after 10 yawns my my eyes are so watery like I’m crying 😅

Thanks a lot! Very useful tips. I just yawned and payed attention how everything is moving while i yawned, and then i started to replicate that. It took me about 2 hours to learn, although my ears are popping but i don't think the popping is strong enough, gotta keep practice to make it stronger. ;) thanks again, you are the best ;)

7:25 - I had to pause for give my thumbs up!!

Ngl for the first time I tried this I nailed it I dive from 5m to 12m thanks man

Adam I love your videos! I am just starting to learn freediving. I made a video on my channel with my first few dives with a family of manatees. Unfortunately I was not able to get very deep because I did not have enough weights for the wetsuit I was using. I can't wait to get out and dive some more, but I don't get to often because I am in the army.

Super comedy and informative

Definitely gonna try this... Sorry for being Soo late ...school you Know how that goes

14:52 While practicing it in the living room.... Trying to explain to my wife it’s just a free diving exercise. Great video!

thnk you very much for help all pepole in the worldthank you

Thanks for the great video, it's really helpful! I would like to ask though could you do a video about training for dynamic apnea. As I battle a lot to progress in this even after training my dynamics for a long time.

Hey man, Great Video and generally Great Channel!! I have been able to equalize no hands by myself for the last few years, cause although 18, i was fascinated by fridiving since elementary school! I have only one question, in order to equalise I kind of do the same muscle movement as swallowing my saliva but without actually swalloing it. In my poor experience it works pretty well, i have been able to reach 17 meters without feeling any pressure on my ears. I just wanted to ask if my "technic" is proper, I think it is the same as the one you show in the video although not sure cause it comes naturally, i dont force it. Love from Greece

Thank you for your tutorial and all other videos! I really enjoy watching them. I wonder if it possible to feel the ear popping (similarly how you can feel it with Valhalla or Frenzel) on a surface without a mask? I can feel something in my ears but it's nothing comparing to when I pinch my nose. I heart that hands-free equalization is very similar to Frenzel, but instead of nose pinching, you should use your mask. Is it a true statement or it's something different from what you described? Thank you!

thanks daddy ,you are my hero ,God bless you adam , I difficulty equalise with btv to 10m head down , I keep the mask equalise all the desand exhaling the air from the nose and move the soft palate every meter, it work but it take a lot of air from lung!!!!but it work so good with me in scuba dive .very helpful video ,we are so lucky having your support daddy , sorry about patreon I wish that I can, but shame on me hhhhhhh I don't have visa cart .

I used to have asthma when I was a child. I grew up blowing my nose for more than 10 years then i was able to develop this 'handless' equalization technique.

love little turtle behind you!

Awesome instructional man! I have always been able to instinctively delonca equalize... But only in one ear lol.