Soggy
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CoolTech:
That part of your statement implied that you didn't touch anything. Using a finger to keep from touching or kicking something worse in a tight place is a totally viable option.
Should your hands ever be used for movement or to hold position?
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That part of your statement implied that you didn't touch anything. Using a finger to keep from touching or kicking something worse in a tight place is a totally viable option.
CoolTech, I wasn't talking about pushing off something. I was talking about swimming movements of the hands.
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Soggy:Why would you use your hands to avoid fire coral? I'd much rather do a quick back kick or better yet, stay far enough away from the stuff that I don't have to worry about it.
Diving is full of rules, but what it comes down to is that it is an intelligent sport. To dive well, one needs to engage their brain. What is the 'smarter' way to deal with stopping forward motion/adjusting position in the water? With your hands which do not make good fins or with the big paddles attached to your feet? Basically, there is never a reason to fin with your hands unless you have not learned how to do otherwise, in which case it is a problem that can be solved with practice unless you prefer looking like you are doing a doggy paddle in the water.
Another scubaboard brain surgeon...son, I've been diving since I was 16 (for 31 years) and have been an active instructor for a long time and let me tell you, I've used my hands in the water at least once, and anyone who claims to be 'the master of their domain' as in ("I have never used my hand") is either lying or unconscious...a sense of humor and non-linear and non-literal senses usually help when reading and interpreting anything I write on here...
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Stephen Ash:
Well, when you use your left it feels like someone else, unless you're left-handed, then for that you lead with your right...
cowboyneal:
You young guys are so smart - I'm siding with you on this one.
cool_hardware52
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My most frequent buddy and I treat use of the hands, or touching the bottom like "dabs" in trials riding, something you don't want to do.
Have I ever used my hands? Yes of course. Do I strive not to? Yes of course.
When you are keeping score pretty soon you develop an entire new bag "o" tricks for not using your hands. Much of that involves thinking ahead so you don't find yourself with no other alternative.
Tobin
Have I ever used my hands? Yes of course. Do I strive not to? Yes of course.
When you are keeping score pretty soon you develop an entire new bag "o" tricks for not using your hands. Much of that involves thinking ahead so you don't find yourself with no other alternative.
Tobin
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If you really have to think about it, you need more time in the water...just the facts...
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Puffer Fish:
LOL...yeah, youth is relative isnt it? Although, this thread is starting to sound like high school..."I never, ever used my hand"...hahaa
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whooo...a lot of catching up to do.
I wonder why this is such an issue? I have seen people who have been diving for years and they scull around like it is a bad habit they never pushed themselves out of.
On the other hand (ha), I laugh when I see people in "arm lock down" like they will not use a hand under any conditions. lockstep robotic divers trying to hold a "correct position". Usually people that are preoccupied with weights here and there to maintain trim, strike me that way. I am totally open to the fact that I am in the dark.
I will agree with the earlier poster that a big two handed camera will make you a better diver quickly. Now, I use my fins to protect that dome port!
hmmmm...still trying to think through the right and left stuff...disturbing
I wonder why this is such an issue? I have seen people who have been diving for years and they scull around like it is a bad habit they never pushed themselves out of.
On the other hand (ha), I laugh when I see people in "arm lock down" like they will not use a hand under any conditions. lockstep robotic divers trying to hold a "correct position". Usually people that are preoccupied with weights here and there to maintain trim, strike me that way. I am totally open to the fact that I am in the dark.
I will agree with the earlier poster that a big two handed camera will make you a better diver quickly. Now, I use my fins to protect that dome port!
hmmmm...still trying to think through the right and left stuff...disturbing
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catherine96821:
I'm not sure what the cowboy has in mind, but... I know how to use my hands.
Have you never been to Ghana?
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