PADI videos...

[jiveturkey]

When we finished the two tanks he was looking at it for some reason and noted that the two rivets holding the handle together had rusted and were ready too fall out !

Well that's just a great excuse to get another huge azz knife!

 

[pir8]

While I have several knives, the last time I needed one was to cut hoagies up into pieces. Give me my scissors anyday. Seriously I have needed a knife to cut out a grapple hook that was over zelously tied in.

 

[TheRedHead]

I dived on a boat for a week with an ancient DM who had an enormous knife strapped to his leg. He was a real dive boat character. Other than the scuba fool in PADI's video all the people look like wholesome college students (not that there is anything wrong with that), but real divers are young and old and come in all shapes and sizes with all sorts of equipment including big-azz knifes strapped to their legs.

 

[Ron Brandt]

None of the actors in the PADI videos look like real divers. Where's the old fart who straps the 5 inch knife to his leg? :shakehead

PADI Course Directors star in the videos....look them up.

Yep,the new policy is to promote sales of gear. Personally I don't need videos to sell gear.

Ron

 

[divezero]

Ya, everyone here at Dive Zero Video Magazine - agrees PADI videos, are....just that....boring. Personally, myself, I have been travelling all over showing padi, o/w videos to highschools as an Instructor - and nowadays, kids do not have attention spans...period. They either tune out of fall asleep...this concept has helped us out in finding out what kids actually want to see in dive videos. Okay back to Padi - They need to switch things up, my opinion, personally.

 

[Wayward Son]

None of the actors in the PADI videos look like real divers. Where's the old fart who straps the 5 inch knife to his leg? :shakehead

He's the president of my dive club, LOL

Seriously, Rollie is a mighty fine diver, and he still has & uses a big knife from way back when. I would, too, but have a good reason not to:

Mine won't take an edge. His will.

 

[Ron Brandt]

Back when I started diving there were no videos. I was in video production. Friends of mine that had been diving longer did not think videos were necessary.

Videos are a great tool and should be thought of as such...a tool. There is some things I would like to change and as a former editor I wish approval could be given to re-author the videos..

Ron

 

[tiburon72157]

subliminal programming for the newbies to buy equipment. nothing all that different than the pitch you get in person while inside the store. it's all about the dinero.

 

[pir8]

subliminal programming for the newbies to buy equipment. nothing all that different than the pitch you get in person while inside the store. it's all about the dinero.

Do you recomend that newbies buy their own gear? If not then are you going to lend them your stuff. You really are doing a disservice to the newbie by downing attemps to get them to get their own gear. They would then get more familiar with it and maybe become a better diver. Is there money involved, of course but then nobody ever said this was a cheap hobby.

 

[LSDeep]

What Tollie said. Also, the videos are meant to be viewed by people from ages 10 years and up.

can only second that. and what seems a bit stupid to the adults seems to keep the kids interested. ask some 10 to 12yrs old about the videos and they seem to remember "el stupido" and what all he did wrong and how you do it right.