As I said, the instructor who taught my class gave me such a list. I do not believe, however, that PADI could really do this for everyone.
When you read the PADI descriptions for the skills, you will see that they highlight some key concepts, but they are not nearly as prescriptive as you are looking for. There is a reason for this.
Many of the skills can be done acceptably in more than one way.
A good example is mask clearing. The general principles are the same, but different people do it slightly differently. Securing an alternate air source is another example where you will find individual differences in approach.
If you were to learn how to do these skills from me, you would learn to do a number of items very differently, I would suspect, from the way you would learn it from your instructor. For example, I do all the CW1 skills with the divers neutrally buoyant and in a near fin-pivot position rather than anchored firmly to the bottom on their knees. I find that this is a much better way to do the skills, but I am in the minority on this. The way I do it is within PADI standards, but it is not the way it is commonly done.
If you look at the thread mentioned earlier on the 20 skills broken down, you will see that the thread ended in disharmony because people would not agree on how some skills are done. You will see my approach to CW1 described, for example.
You will need to do these skills the way your instructor wants you to do them. When assisting instructors, you will need to do them the way the instructor with whom you are working does them. When I was a DM and later an AI, I had to vary the way I did things, depending upon whom I was assisting. Alternate air exercises were always an adventure for me, since I had to assist in the actual demonstration and I was often unsure as the demonstration began which precise sequence of steps would be used by the particular instructor I was assisting.
Later, if you become an instructor, your own approach to different skills will evolve.
When you read the PADI descriptions for the skills, you will see that they highlight some key concepts, but they are not nearly as prescriptive as you are looking for. There is a reason for this.
Many of the skills can be done acceptably in more than one way.
A good example is mask clearing. The general principles are the same, but different people do it slightly differently. Securing an alternate air source is another example where you will find individual differences in approach.
If you were to learn how to do these skills from me, you would learn to do a number of items very differently, I would suspect, from the way you would learn it from your instructor. For example, I do all the CW1 skills with the divers neutrally buoyant and in a near fin-pivot position rather than anchored firmly to the bottom on their knees. I find that this is a much better way to do the skills, but I am in the minority on this. The way I do it is within PADI standards, but it is not the way it is commonly done.
If you look at the thread mentioned earlier on the 20 skills broken down, you will see that the thread ended in disharmony because people would not agree on how some skills are done. You will see my approach to CW1 described, for example.
You will need to do these skills the way your instructor wants you to do them. When assisting instructors, you will need to do them the way the instructor with whom you are working does them. When I was a DM and later an AI, I had to vary the way I did things, depending upon whom I was assisting. Alternate air exercises were always an adventure for me, since I had to assist in the actual demonstration and I was often unsure as the demonstration began which precise sequence of steps would be used by the particular instructor I was assisting.
Later, if you become an instructor, your own approach to different skills will evolve.
