So Once again I am posting about training advice. I appreciate everyone helping me with my other problems and I am currently waiting to get back in the water and work on my setup and get my buoyancy and trim down.
Now on to this topic. I was originally planning on taking Cavern In a few weeks but turns out that isn't going to work out so I've decided to just do cavern/Intro & Basic Cave this fall after I got more comfortable doing skills with my drysuit and such. My question mainly is what should I be doing on dives to help prepare for the class? I know It is a class and I am there to learn but I figured since I know I'm going to be doing it this fall I might as well start working on some of the skills as I dive between now and then.
So far I don't know what specifically I can do that is cave related, but I do know that I can practice these:
Valve drills, S-Drill
Buoyancy and trim
Frog Kick, Helicopter turn, Backwards kick
Laying Line, I have a friend that is Full Cave and can show me how to do it on land so I could practice this in OW or In a Pool I suppose
No mask swims with touch contact on the line (I saw this was a skill and I assume I could practice this on a line at the bottom of the pool or something similar)
If there is anything else I should be doing Just let me know, O and I might be finished with my Deco Procedures/Adv Nitrox courses by then but I don't know if that really matters when it comes to Intro/Basic Cave.
Now on to this topic. I was originally planning on taking Cavern In a few weeks but turns out that isn't going to work out so I've decided to just do cavern/Intro & Basic Cave this fall after I got more comfortable doing skills with my drysuit and such. My question mainly is what should I be doing on dives to help prepare for the class? I know It is a class and I am there to learn but I figured since I know I'm going to be doing it this fall I might as well start working on some of the skills as I dive between now and then.
So far I don't know what specifically I can do that is cave related, but I do know that I can practice these:
Valve drills, S-Drill
Buoyancy and trim
Frog Kick, Helicopter turn, Backwards kick
Laying Line, I have a friend that is Full Cave and can show me how to do it on land so I could practice this in OW or In a Pool I suppose
No mask swims with touch contact on the line (I saw this was a skill and I assume I could practice this on a line at the bottom of the pool or something similar)
If there is anything else I should be doing Just let me know, O and I might be finished with my Deco Procedures/Adv Nitrox courses by then but I don't know if that really matters when it comes to Intro/Basic Cave.