First I need to tell you my background.
I did my basic training in the year 2000 and never really dove ever since. By the end of 2018 I decided to restart diving and by the end of 2019 I had done about 80 really cool dives that I'm proud of.
When I decided to take my Padi Advanced Diver + Nitrox Diver training I chose a Padi corse director (yes, really) here in Brazil as my instructor to which I paid way more than I should and received 2 sh-tty one-hour classes for the advanced diver certification and an incredible amount of zero-hours training for my nitrox diver certification. After 3 months (yes, really) the guy referred me to one of his students for the couple of expensive ocean dives and that was it. Needless to say I decided never to take a Padi corse ever again. Fast forward a few months I met a few friends doing a sidemount instruction dive with a Padi instructor and ended up taking the course with the guy which was ok.
Then I bought Steve Martin's sidemounting.com online course and it really blew my mind. The crazy amount of training hours this course offers and the mere fact that you can simply watch each training video again and again is in my opinion what every dive course should look like in 2020.
So now I would like to start my technical diving training and wonder if there is any agency out there (not Padi) that provide a similar training to Steve Martin's course, that is, a great amount of quality video classes to which you can refer to whenever you want. I don't really care if the agency's actual diving part of the training (with an instructor) is sh-tty, I just want stellar quality classes which for me is what really matters.
What are you guys seeing ou there?
I did my basic training in the year 2000 and never really dove ever since. By the end of 2018 I decided to restart diving and by the end of 2019 I had done about 80 really cool dives that I'm proud of.
When I decided to take my Padi Advanced Diver + Nitrox Diver training I chose a Padi corse director (yes, really) here in Brazil as my instructor to which I paid way more than I should and received 2 sh-tty one-hour classes for the advanced diver certification and an incredible amount of zero-hours training for my nitrox diver certification. After 3 months (yes, really) the guy referred me to one of his students for the couple of expensive ocean dives and that was it. Needless to say I decided never to take a Padi corse ever again. Fast forward a few months I met a few friends doing a sidemount instruction dive with a Padi instructor and ended up taking the course with the guy which was ok.
Then I bought Steve Martin's sidemounting.com online course and it really blew my mind. The crazy amount of training hours this course offers and the mere fact that you can simply watch each training video again and again is in my opinion what every dive course should look like in 2020.
So now I would like to start my technical diving training and wonder if there is any agency out there (not Padi) that provide a similar training to Steve Martin's course, that is, a great amount of quality video classes to which you can refer to whenever you want. I don't really care if the agency's actual diving part of the training (with an instructor) is sh-tty, I just want stellar quality classes which for me is what really matters.
What are you guys seeing ou there?
