It’s possible just may be more likely to go under the water, and you ll have to clear it

Wow. Number one tool. That’s great to hear. Nice work

Glad this helps. Takes some practice

Try exhaling out your nose instead of blowing out your mouth into the snorkel, which decrease your tendency to also inhale with your nose. Give that a shot for a little. If it doesn’t work you could use a nose plug.

Thats a really interesting point. I find the purge valve helpful collecting some of the left over water or spit that would otherwise be breathed in on the next inhale between breaths or after clearing. I can see that one without would make clearing it easier, but I dont have an issue clearing a snorkel with the valve and appreciate it for breaths in between. I do think the snorkel has a small learning curve, and takes some time getting use to using while training. Which brands do you like? I

I have several, but only use an Arena one. I run into the same problem with all of them. Most need to be maybe 2 inches taller. I look straight down at the bottom of the pool when swimming freestyle, and perhaps because of my large head, if I am not looking farther ahead than normal, I get water in the tube. All of my goggles are at the farthest reach of the straps, and so are my snorkels. I need to try those Magic 5 goggles to get some that fit. I have all goggles on the widest nose bridge piece, and some fit and some don't. I do a lot of kicking laps because my kick is very weak. Part of that may be from age, 73, and part may be because I didn't swim, and part for sure is ankle flexibility. I do go pigeon toed. I also use the Finis Positive drive fins. They are the only ones that are ergonomically correct since we don't have flat feet like frogs. They are off set with a lot of fin on the little toe side, and minimal fin on the big toe side. My favorite stroke is the old over arm side stroke, which is faster than breast stroke and back stroke. Only record was set in 1895. 1:02.5 for 100 yards. Dropped from competition prior to 1900 Olympics when they added breast stroke because it was more 'gentlemanly' because there was less splashing.... I swim it with a flutter kick rather than the scissor kick, which creates huge amounts of drag.

wow, thanks for sharing. I also wish some of the snorkels were longer, or had a sharper curve over the head, particularly for butterfly and breaststroke. The Magic5 have a new snorkel and gear bag. You can get 20% off goggles and gear with my code DALY20 @@robohippy

Keeping your head down and neutral could keep the rest of your spine in a longer position. Let me know how it goes! Yes, I swim in the Magic5 custom goggles - 20% off with checkout code DALY20

Try a nose clip. A lot of pros even use one.

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