this is not me complaining many of you have seen “a gentlemans guide to taking snuff” how is it that he can sniff that hard and get it where it needs to go and not the back of the throat? or are there people out there who try to get it in their sinuses cause they think thats correct? maybe i dont understand the sniffing “quick but shallow” or “hard but shallow” are those things even possible to do?
You have to be able to close your blow hole with just the right timing. If you jump into a pool of deep water and water shoots up your nose and down your windpipe yours is broken. Same principal, it happens automatically once mastered with snuff. Here it called a diving reflex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbSCSHzXkrI
Personally I think your putting way too much thought about how to take a pinch, at this point taking a pinch should be an automatic response requiring very little conscious thought. When you want to pick up a pencil off the table do you consciously think about exactly how far to move your arm or how much pressure to put on it to lift it or how much to open your fingers or exactly what muscles to contract to move your arm? No, your subconscious does this all for you much better than your conscious mind ever could it should be the same with snuff all you should think is “take a pinch” and let your subconscious mind calculate how hard to sniff.
The more you think about how your taking your pinch the more can go wrong.
hmm i never thought of that