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Cause they're not elitists.... Why dive like this? Why don't they get it?
Why are they happy to suck at diving?
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Cause they're not elitists.... Why dive like this? Why don't they get it?
Why are they happy to suck at diving?
I'll join.
That's why I'm so glad to hear that more and more instructors are teaching skills neutral. When all of the Instructors, AIs, DMs, Safety Divers, etc. are up of the bottom and in trim it changes from something that the smart aspire to and the others despair of ever doing, to what the student just naturally (with a little help) falls into doing....
But many divers have never seen anybody who was stable and relaxed, except the professionals who guide them. And the natural response to that is that those are professions with thousands of dives, and therefore that's a level of skill that the "average diver" can't aspire to.
When I took my Fundamentals class, I looked at the instructor with my jaw dropped . . . I had NEVER seen anybody so quiet in the water, and so able to do so many things without changing depth or losing stability or (to my chagrin) losing awareness of everything his students were doing...
(stupidist dive gear ever, BTW)