Razorista.....watching YouTube videos of Steve Bogaerts or Steve Martin won't help me.
I am sure someone of your experience cannot learn much there, but they helped me a lot.
But I did not link to other people's videos the last time.
I was actually stupid enough again to openly show my lacking talents.
Those videos are by me, just a few are of me and I cut a few snippets showing me out of other people's videos.
I'm curious in YOUR setup.
This it is for example:
But I only have video with 7 and 8 liters and only with one or two at a time.
Sidemount Spass - YouTube
The one video you posted showed very little good, but I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt on a lot of those.
I used this video to link to the channel above. It was the shortest snipped showing other things than fish or other divers.
I do look a bit better at the Salem Express I think:
Salem Express - YouTube
But actually I am not interested in looking especially good in videos, most people cannot tell the difference anyway.
I am not good enough to qualify for my own HP. ;-)
As for standing on the surface with tanks hooked up, I can't/don't believe you. Hence why I'd love to see the video of it.
Will have to wait, do not have one and only have access to a single big tank this weekend, I assume showing 7 liters would not help in the discussion.
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I doubt it'd you because that person isn't 4' tall as your prior posts suggest.
I wrote 182cm, that's a bit over 6'
A bit short to show that, isn't it?
Anyway, I was not struggling, just videoing and the slow motion snipped does not even contain one complete fin movement to judge.
Whether it "feels" horrible or not, in sidemount the tanks HAVE TO BE TRIM SO YOU CAN FIT THROUGH THINGS.
That's kinda the point
You do not always have to fit through something, sometimes it's just a bit of 'advanced Monkey diving' for me.
But yes, you are right there.
I know you can't *feel* when the tanks are out of trim!
Actually you can. But you would not believe me anyway.
that's one of the reasons getting it right is so hard.
Wouldn't deny that it is hard.
From my point of view: If you are done with it you're done!
Having it absolutely right stopped interesting me very much.
I want it to be very stable and secure, but nothing more.
Sometimes I still do the Video and mirror checking, but I do not need that much precision that often and if I do I can correct it by feel in the water.
You know, you spoke extensively in post after post after post about how easy it is to get tanks in trim, how you learned how to do it,
Yes I did that and mean most of it, some meaning could have been 'lost in translation' though.
how they balanced out with this kind of tank and that kind of tank...
They do and I can.
I do not always require them to.
I am also not a very talented diver.
The Razor still enables me to do things many more talented people cannot imitate without diving their own Razor.
Now we see you, and not only do you have it completely wrong, in a way that no ms diver would find acceptable, but your Reaction is "what's the big deal?"
There is a difference between 'completely wrong' and 'a bit off'.
I like a good tank position as much as anyone, but I am not fanatic about it, sometimes I just don't care.
As for what you had in your hand -- that's the worst excuse ever.
It is, but that's the way it is for me with the GoPro. Either I concentrate on it and do long sequences of video or I miss most good shots.
I'm not even going to tell you why. Every sm diver with even a little experience who reads this will know why. I'm going to let you sit there and wonder what everyone but you knows about what your excuse says about you as a diver.
How do you do it? Right hand occupied, too much shaking to be avoided.
I just ignore the tank position than until I am done.
I also push the tank valve down with my shoulder do get more freedom of movement for the extended arm.
As for your band position--that video isn't you on holiday.
It is me on holiday. What else? Tropical waters are not that easy to come by in my area.
So it's tourist boats in Egypt.
You're in a multi-tank configuration, you didn't take a cam band and go tropical. So, lousy excuse again.
Actually that is me diving off a boat with a total 25 divers with single tank and one other sidemount diver and one instructor for the rest of the group with backmouted doubles.
I just do not see why I should reconfigure for single tank in most situations.
And as for your question "is it that bad" the answer is YES, not only is it really bad, it shows that you're completely clueless, with all the questions you answered, about what the people asking those questions were trying to accomplish, and why.
And can you explain how you have come to that conclusion?
Most of the things you hinted at above are wrong, and not based on enough information, so I do not know what to make of it.
I like to improve, but I do not see that to be your goal in saying this here.
So now you have a bit more to criticize.
I am still a sidemount beginner. Had a few hundred dives but I think there is still much room for improvement.
Personally I am quite satisfied with the current sage and unselfconscious.
I do not have anything to prove and am just very happy with the way everything is working out for me at the moment in the water.