what was the hardest in fundies to learn?

[zamburinha]

Hardest thing for me was keeping completely horizontal while task loaded ... I tend to go head up when too many things happen at once Oh yeah, and when I tool tech 1, it came to haunt me again when the task loading was increased.

In both GUE classes I took, the "hardest" thing was different for each member of the team. In fundies, one guy had buoyancy problems, another had a lot of trouble with backkick and I was challenged by trim. The funny thing is that I had dived with those people many times before and those "problems" had never been apparent, they only really surfaced when under stress. I think that is one of the reasons fundies is such a good class, it makes you realize what your weak points are.

 

[GShockey]

I've been mentoring a fundies student who is taking the course this weekend and it'll be highly educational (for me) to see how it all goes.

Given that its a split course with two weekends and three weeks in between i think there's a reasonably high likelihood of a pass, but he definitely still needs the course going into the first weekend. It'll be interesting to see some of the lightbulbs going on that I haven't been able to turn on....

Don't worry, I am bringing some booster cables and a 2000v battery....

 

[GShockey]

That's an outstanding approach to a class like Fundies ... giving the student some "practice time" between beginning and end.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Coming to visit Bob?

 

[kathydee]

I think the hardest thing in Fundies for me was learning to say yes (or why then yes) to all the teachings.

Controlled ascents/stops in trim/formation was the biggest skill challenge.

 

[lamont]

Don't worry, I am bringing some booster cables and a 2000v battery....

Is K-Y a conductor or insulator?

 

[Kevrumbo]

In class, back kick
Post class, a true 6min 3ft/min ascent from 20ft

Back kick . . .(my initial attempt resulted in two strained groin-muscles:shocked2: )

A 6min ascent is easier to do in the metric system:

From 6m stop (20ft), your ascent rate is 1 meter per minute -therefore taking six minutes to surface . . .on my Vytec gauge, I try to move 0.5meters for every 30sec of elapsed time --the same as 1m/min.