Why are some people so easily excitable about choosing to use or not a piece of gear?

[DandyDon]

i hate Jimmy Buffet music....

Now that's just sick.

Is my font large enough for that...?

 

[Bullswan]

Also the stiff isn't cheap and nothing is cut and dried.

Pete

Tough to argue with that. But I'm pretty sure nobody would want anything stiff cut and dried.........:no :no :no

 

[HowardE]

I hate Buffet's music too.

It's probably from years in the music biz, and every "apres ski" guy doing gratuitous amounts of Buffet.

 

[lamont]

Why are some people so easily excitable about choosing to use or not a piece of gear? In my other sports and professions I’ve not seen this, what is different about Scuba Diving?Or, is my experience just oddly coincidental and it happens many other places and I just haven’t been there?

Gear has killed people underwater. While underwater scuba divers are dependent upon their gear to survive. That lends a certain amount of urgency to the discussion of gear which is not present in a lot of other sports/hobbies/whatever. It often gets a little out of hand and the signal-to-noize ratio in a lot of discussions can suffer, but the underlying truth is that every time we go in the water we're dependent on gear to keep us alive and out of trouble.

 

[dbh]

Now to answer your question honestly, most of the people that knock others' gear choices don't really have a life. They are trying to make a non-competitive sport competitive!

I have been certified since 1974 and have gone through a BUNCH of different gear until I have found what is right for me. Since 95% of my dives are solo, I want what I am comfortable with; and I know my gear inside and out. DIR does have some gear configurations that make sense and I have adopted some of them.....just not their attitude . I am sure not everybody here would agree with some of my gear choices or configurations....but I don't really care. After all, it is MY life at stake .

It comes down to using whatever feels right to you and get to know your gear inside & out! If only one type of gear was acceptable, there wouldn't be so much on the market.

Oh yeah.....most of those people that get so exciteable....have small penises .

Dave

 

[dlndavid]

you might want to edit out that last part

 

[superstar]

Oh yeah.....most of those people that get so exciteable....have small penises .

Dave

Don't those people drive Corvetts and Hummers

 

[DandyDon]

Oh yeah.....most of those people that get so exciteable....have small penises .

Dave

You've checked? You sure they have any? I think this thread will go join the Dodo bird now....

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[rongoodman]

I've been involved in climbing for 25+ years and even after the advent of the Internet, I've never seen people get all that upset about gear choices. What I see here as a new diver are equipment choices and practices of the traditional recreational diving community being challanged by tech crossover/DIR/Hog divers. Eventually some of the traditionalists get angry and push back. I'm personally glad that I found this information early on--my intial purchases were a standard Hog rig, with only small modifications required when I took my first shot at DIR-F in September. Having taken OW and AOW from a PADI shop, with different instructors, I am irritated that no mention at all was made of gas planning, proper trim or finning techniques, or more modern equipment choices. Whether I continue with GUE or go with TDI, I see no advantages of the traditional approach, other than "Everybody else does it". I don't expect these arguments to go away though--people have too much invested in doing things the way they always have.

 

[spectrum]

Tough to argue with that. But I'm pretty sure nobody would want anything stiff cut and dried.........:no :no :no

LOL, I was only off by a key

Thank goodness for the edit window.

Pete