All this twaddle about diving in the cold when the real news is that Ronaldo is coming back to United. 
BSAC Trainee Frustrations
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If you do a regional training with instructors outside the club, try to keep in touch with the people active, students and instructors.
There are sometimes instructors really keen on training people: if you show them the list of sign offs you need to do to finish the grade, sometimes one instructor may try to organise something for a group of people who need a particular sign off …
For example, before the covid madness, I knew a group of instructors helping students to get their grades and who would organise groups at Wraysbury, but you would have not heard of it unless you knew someone in that group.
There are sometimes instructors really keen on training people: if you show them the list of sign offs you need to do to finish the grade, sometimes one instructor may try to organise something for a group of people who need a particular sign off …
For example, before the covid madness, I knew a group of instructors helping students to get their grades and who would organise groups at Wraysbury, but you would have not heard of it unless you knew someone in that group.
Which part of the country are you in?
Last year paid havoc with our training. We where due to go into open water at Easter, then the lockdown occurred.
We managed to get those that weren't sheltering through the open water part of OD during August / September. Granted, they worked very hard. We had no pool facilities (our pool remained closed), so they had to refresher skills in open water, and work through the lessons.
We have a few who where and are still 'sheltering', and will resume when they are ready.
Those that did finish last year have done a number of club trips this year. Plymouth, Cornwall, and the Farnes.
We are lucky in that we have a lot of instructors, so we can spread the load.
As others have suggested, you could use a school to finish off those elements you need.
If you are proactive, you might be able to talk one of the instructors into completing the last of your lessons on a specified timetable.
Or you could change branches.
Last year paid havoc with our training. We where due to go into open water at Easter, then the lockdown occurred.
We managed to get those that weren't sheltering through the open water part of OD during August / September. Granted, they worked very hard. We had no pool facilities (our pool remained closed), so they had to refresher skills in open water, and work through the lessons.
We have a few who where and are still 'sheltering', and will resume when they are ready.
Those that did finish last year have done a number of club trips this year. Plymouth, Cornwall, and the Farnes.
We are lucky in that we have a lot of instructors, so we can spread the load.
As others have suggested, you could use a school to finish off those elements you need.
If you are proactive, you might be able to talk one of the instructors into completing the last of your lessons on a specified timetable.
Or you could change branches.
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