DevonDiver
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I wonder what the original thread participants are doing now... and whether their views on experience have changed 11 years later?
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I'd say the biggest reason I don't think 100 dives is enough to be an instructor is because I know what I thought when I had 100 dives, and I know what I know and how I think after almost 1000. It's different. 100 dives just isn't enough breadth to be a good resource.
Experience does not make a good teacher.
But like Dee said i also think that to be able to train specialities, especially cave diving for example, you should at least dive caves on a regular basis. Would i be right in thinking that once you have a cave diving cert but you never actually cave dive, lets say over a period of 2 years, you are still certified to teach cave diving to whomever asks for that training from you?
.........I've met many, many instructors who've approached instruction in exactly the same way you are approaching it. I find them to be confident without cause. They have learned theory, but all their experience has been in class, so they have very little practical experience. They are among the very poorest instructors I've encountered. If you continue the way you are planning, you'll be one more in that crowd.
Walter