Who invented NASKA?

But it was during the winter training sessions that the problem of rhinitis started to appear: after each session, I always had to blow my nose a bit. The intensity of this discomfort gradually increased over the years, to the point where I would sneeze for an entire day after every workout.
I tried everything: nose clips, petroleum jelly spread on the mucous membranes, nasal irrigations with saline after each training session... but none of these solutions worked.

In 2022, I literally had to hang up my goggles because even a brief and mild 15-minute workout was enough to knock me out for an entire day.
In 2023, after a whole year off, I tried getting back into the pool, thinking that perhaps, after a year away from chlorine, something might have improved, but I came out traumatized: there was nothing I could do, it was as if the rhinitis had been waiting for me all that time.

It was then that I noticed that during rhinitis, I always felt a particular tingling at the base of my nostrils. Indeed, the nose clip left that part of the nose exposed to contact with chlorine, and by squeezing the nasal walls, it prevented normal blood circulation in that area.
One evening, I wandered around the house thinking about how to create a kind of cover to protect the entire nose. By pure chance, I noticed the shape of a plastic bottle just as I was about to throw it away: if cut at a certain point, it could roughly resemble the shape of a nose. I worked on it all night, and in the end, I came up with this: The following week, I went to test it with my son.
It certainly took a fair amount of courage, both to face the stares of other swimmers and to face the consequences in case the mask didn't work, which would mean spending an entire day sneezing.
But the amazing thing is that nothing happened! No sneezing, no runny nose, nothing. I was thrilled, but I still didn’t want to believe it, especially since the rhinitis often didn't manifest immediately after swimming but several hours later. So, I waited the whole day and the next one, but nothing happened!
I tested it for another five days without any problems: it worked!
To be clear: water was getting in from all sides, and some chlorine was certainly coming into contact with my nostrils, but the exposure was much less than without it. I also noticed that with the mask, I could exhale through my nose, just like when I swam without a nose clip. By exhaling through my nose, I noticed that the water that had entered was expelled along with the air.
To reach the mask you see on the website today, I had to go through making dozens of prototypes, each one allowing me to optimize it more and more.

Being able to swim again without problems has repaid all the effort I put into its creation. I even decided to rejoin the swimming team I had to leave because of rhinitis. Thanks to this mask, I can even handle intense training sessions without any more issues.

I don't know if this mask can be the solution for everyone, but for me, it was 100%.
I hope I can help everyone who, like me, had to stop swimming, and thus deprive themselves of such a healthy activity, to start again.

This mask is dedicated to all those who LOVE swimming and had to quit.
Try it.
If, like in my case, it works, it will be one of the best purchases you’ve ever made.

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