beanojones
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I also do the 'pool work' in student gear, OW work in my own gear.
Similar rationale to others (demos look the same). Also jackets are easy to deal with for students because jackets go on like jackets and plain straps (BP/W) are floppy so demos don't look smooth.
But know that stores go from not really caring, to wanting you to use what they sell to absolutely requiring it. Many stores require instructors to be in new gear every dive season, bought from the store.
So buy a cheap jacket BCD and reg to use for DM course work recognizing that it might have to be sold and replaced. If you already know where you are doing your DM and instructor work, tell them your plans so they can let you know what they want you to be in.
If you become an instructor, you will, in the end, need to have a bunch of gear around anyway, and many of us like having a pool specific set that we let die in chlorine. Everything kills dive gear put chlorine pools fade the gear in new and special ways.
Similar rationale to others (demos look the same). Also jackets are easy to deal with for students because jackets go on like jackets and plain straps (BP/W) are floppy so demos don't look smooth.
But know that stores go from not really caring, to wanting you to use what they sell to absolutely requiring it. Many stores require instructors to be in new gear every dive season, bought from the store.
So buy a cheap jacket BCD and reg to use for DM course work recognizing that it might have to be sold and replaced. If you already know where you are doing your DM and instructor work, tell them your plans so they can let you know what they want you to be in.
If you become an instructor, you will, in the end, need to have a bunch of gear around anyway, and many of us like having a pool specific set that we let die in chlorine. Everything kills dive gear put chlorine pools fade the gear in new and special ways.