I think he means "unthinking"
The Breath Method as Described by Muttonchop Piper
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Ok, let me sit here all day and think about how I can unthink.
Now you are the path to true enlightenment!
Alan Karslake was pretty helpful for a newbie. Now I don’t even think about cadence...it just happens. 
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Both Muttnchop and embers videos on breath smoking were a revelation for me when I first started out. Although it's important to note, that the breath method as described is really simply a foundation upon which to build your own style of cadence. It supplies you with fundamental concepts that can be applied in whatever order, frequency, or intensity feels right to you.
It is more about the concept, not counting your breaths and following a formula. That's a good place to start, but once it becomes second nature you'll find that your not really even paying attention, you just apply whatever particular breath in the breath method seems to be required at the moment.
It is more about the concept, not counting your breaths and following a formula. That's a good place to start, but once it becomes second nature you'll find that your not really even paying attention, you just apply whatever particular breath in the breath method seems to be required at the moment.
Oh dear God, I got mentioned in the same thread as Muttonhack.
I know... It's so exciting, and I'm proud for you. Maybe one day as many people will follow you as follow him.
If mutton smokes um, uh, as slow as he, uh mmm, talks I don't think uh he would, mmm get any ahhh, harsh well, uh tongue mmm bite.
Would this be funnier if I had ever seen one of his videos?
Would this be funnier if I had ever seen one of his videos?
Well... once is enough and also once too many.
I find the method no fun but I recommend trying it just to demonstrate that one doesn't need to put much effort into the smoking part of pipe smoking.
I never understood the point of blowing hot moist air back thru the pipe, even if only a little.
Sometimes I do it to get the fire going again. If you do it too often you're in for a wet nasty smoke and a stank pipe.
You don't, you just keep an ebb and flow going in the shank to cool the smoke, you shouldn't even see any smoke rising from the chamber. Muttnchop looks like he's operating a bellows. I'm surprised he hasn't burned a hole in a pipe doing that. In the video I did, I really had to force the technique to illustrate how it works. Normally, if you didn't know I was smoking, you would assume I just had a pipe dangling from my mouth.
Random question. If someone was trying to retrain their approach to smoking to something like the breathe technique, would the suggestion of just getting used to clenching a pipe without tobacco (or unlit) in it help?
Not sure. Would that be like practice getting drunk with water?
Good call. But I was thinking more along the line of how uncomfortable it would be to breath through an empty pipe in your mouth and inevitably your body would just naturally switch to breathing through your nose.
I clench 90% of the time and smoke in a way that is similar to the breathe technique or whatever it’s called. All of the people who I have introduced to pipes are/have been cigarette smokers and appear to have a natural tendency to draw heavily as the pipe seems much bigger than a cigarette so in theory requires more work
just musing
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