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I think you're right ...TheRedHead:I think people who denigrate you for any reason feel insecure about themselves.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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I think you're right ...TheRedHead:I think people who denigrate you for any reason feel insecure about themselves.
<G> Its not a question of need, its one of like.lamont:if you need a particular fin to get across the surf zone safely then that's the right one for the job.
On the Northern California coast handling the surf in an optimum fashion is as important an not silting up the cave in Florida. Same goes for riverslamont:It sounds like you've got different conditions where you may care a lot more about that surf entry than you do about the ability to back-kick.
Same basically goes for river diving. I wouldn't do that, personally. Obviously you're going to need to optimize for thrust on those, and not for your back-kick
Of marginal interest to anyone but me. I know of few other river divers (I just like to look for old, old bottles). I have no need to find the one exception that invalidates the mantra. Just trying to keep everybodys (including my own) mind open.lamont:That kind of diving seems like edge cases to me.
At this stage in my diving career it is at the edges that I fine tune, the core is fairly set and it would take a major epiphany to make much change. Nothing is the answer to everything and I surely have the answers to just a few things. Well ... more often I have a long list of what did not work rather than the answer to the question of, "what does work?"lamont:So, what you've found are the edges of where DIR diving isn't the answer to everything.
NWGratefulDiver:... and so you take the actions of a couple of strangers and apply them to an entire class of people ... based on what?
If we applied that logic to other aspects of life, we'd be going around hating everybody ... because no matter what you do or how you choose to do it, you will be sharing your choices with a few jerky people.
Why not try judging people based on how they treat you ... rather than on how someone else did?
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Thalassamania:BTW: I grock dynamic instability as a concept. How exactly does this relate to the foam vs. shell drysuit question and what's the story with underwear selection?
H2Andy:in my diving, i agree with JJ. diving with the same stuff all the time makes me
enormously confortable in the water. i don't have any need to change stuff.
when would you change stuff?
Makes a diver look like Donald DuckTheRedHead:Jeff told me that diving with Force Fins would make me look like a dork and that would violate Rule #6. But you can do the kicks in them...