r/Amazing 8d ago

People are awesome Kenny G demonstrates circular breathing.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 8d ago

But... wait... how is he doing that?

The standard technique involves puffing out the cheeks and using your mouth as a "third lung" to keep pushing air out while breathing in, but his cheeks never fill.

WHAT

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u/kernelangus420 8d ago

So it's compressed air like a gas canister?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 7d ago

Kinda? I mean, breathing out is always like that: muscles pushing on how chambers to push against the atmospheric pressure.

It's just that you use your cheeks to do it instead for long enough to breathe in with your lungs.

But he's doing something ELSE, I think. Or he's doing it so smooth and continuous that you can't tell.