Re: Now there's a thought




"Peter Ashby" <pashby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1h3pw80.a0sy5y1c71yq0N%pashby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Bob Watkinson <clodhopper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Out on my long run today I was drinking through the tube on my bladder
>> thingy when I realised I could breath in or out through my nose while
>> doing
>> it.
>> I wonder how we can do that, take in at the same time as we breath out.
>>
>> Hmmmmmm,
>
> Do you play the trumpet? a technique called cyclical breathing used by
> trumpet players. I can do a similar thing through much time spent
> manipulating biological things through a fine mouth pippette. You
> breathe through the nose while either sucking or blowing through the
> pippette using the cheek muscles. That is your answer, you are sucking
> with your mouth while using your respiratory muscles to breathe through
> your nose.

Ah but what are the mechanics of this? How is the mouth in exclusion capable
of sucking? I know it must be able to but how it produces a vacuum escapes
me.


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