JimQPublic
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I think this could be a good debate. Certainly if I had a local coach where I was going to be working with him every week it would suggest a totally different method.
With PFI we had four days to cover a lot of ground. In two or three pool sessions it's hard to take untrained individuals who have never done statics and get them to a higher plane of consciousness. Certainly you can't do very gradually increasing holds while you refine technique and look for signs of imminent BO. Instead it's a basic intro and the students are offered the opportunity to take it as easy or hard as they wish. I appreciate the safe environment in the pool. I was amazed just how easy it was to push myself a few seconds too far. It made me much more conservative for the open ocean sessions.
Interesting that in the pool Kirk or Martin correctly predicted each BO or Samba in the seconds leading up to it.
Jim
With PFI we had four days to cover a lot of ground. In two or three pool sessions it's hard to take untrained individuals who have never done statics and get them to a higher plane of consciousness. Certainly you can't do very gradually increasing holds while you refine technique and look for signs of imminent BO. Instead it's a basic intro and the students are offered the opportunity to take it as easy or hard as they wish. I appreciate the safe environment in the pool. I was amazed just how easy it was to push myself a few seconds too far. It made me much more conservative for the open ocean sessions.
Interesting that in the pool Kirk or Martin correctly predicted each BO or Samba in the seconds leading up to it.
Jim