New name for "DIR"
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Lost Yooper
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When I first starting getting interested in my currently configuration, it was still called hogarthian. I think it was about 1996 or so that DIR started. I don't care what it's called as long as it works as advertised. Which it does.
I don't think most people have a problem with the name at all, but rather the approach of some vocal proponents. Let's face, it was an elitist group who coined it all (WKPP), and it's an elitist group that currently sells it (GUE). You can pick any sport and the elite of that sport will generally have an arrogance. The scuba industry isn't unique in this regard. The bottom line... it's the message that matters not the messengers tone.
Ask yourself why they are the elite and if what they do can be incorporated into your diving. If it works for them and their extreme dives, will it work for your weenie dives? My answer was yes, and my level of enjoyment underwater sky rocketed. IMO, arguing over a name is rediculas, particularly when the merits speak for themselves.
It all comes down to whom you wish to learn from... those that do or those that don't.
Mike
I don't think most people have a problem with the name at all, but rather the approach of some vocal proponents. Let's face, it was an elitist group who coined it all (WKPP), and it's an elitist group that currently sells it (GUE). You can pick any sport and the elite of that sport will generally have an arrogance. The scuba industry isn't unique in this regard. The bottom line... it's the message that matters not the messengers tone.
Ask yourself why they are the elite and if what they do can be incorporated into your diving. If it works for them and their extreme dives, will it work for your weenie dives? My answer was yes, and my level of enjoyment underwater sky rocketed. IMO, arguing over a name is rediculas, particularly when the merits speak for themselves.
It all comes down to whom you wish to learn from... those that do or those that don't.
Mike
OP
So we can count you in on the switch to "DIK" right?
Rick
You can call me a stroke and you can be DIR:
Doing
It
Rick's Way
ok?
Doing
It
Rick's Way
ok?
...with the self depreciation and effacement... it won't solve their problem.
Lost Yooper
Guest
If one can get the entire industry to call it DIK, then have it 
. How about someone ask George and JJ if they would be so kind as to change it, so nobody's feelings get hurt any longer ;-0. Please post their reponse so we can all get a good laugh in .
Yoose guyz crack me up!
Mike
. How about someone ask George and JJ if they would be so kind as to change it, so nobody's feelings get hurt any longer ;-0. Please post their reponse so we can all get a good laugh in .Yoose guyz crack me up!
Mike
What do we call everyone else since they hate "stroke". They need an acronym too...
How about POS?
Preference
Over
Standardization
How about POS?
Preference
Over
Standardization
JamesK
Contributor
LOL! Now that is the funniest thing I have read in a long time!!!!
OP
You mean you think it's important to them? I think it is too. To you, too. But it shouldn't be important to anyone else, right? Yes... yes, I'm beginning to see...Lost Yooper once bubbled...
If one can get the entire industry to call it DIK, then have it
Yoose guyz crack me up!
Mike
Are you?
Rick
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