Comments on: Why I Took Time off Technical Diving http://precisiondiving.net/blog/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/ Building the Next Generation of Thinking Scuba Divers Fri, 18 May 2012 14:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Team Diving vs. Buddy Diving - Do You Know the Difference? | Precision Diving Blog http://precisiondiving.net/blog/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Team Diving vs. Buddy Diving - Do You Know the Difference? | Precision Diving Blog Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:48:48 +0000 http://precisiondiving.net/blog/2008/10/24/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/#comment-71 [...] To ensure team success, the entire team must be on the same page. Not just in knowing what is expected, but in skill and experience level. Inexperienced divers can learn a great deal from experienced divers, but they must learn it at their current experience level before moving on to something more aggressive and out of their level. This is one aspect of diving where people get into trouble. They simply try to do dives, or take classes, that are above what they are really capable of handling. The problem is they don’t know when to put the brakes on their diving and say, I need to get better before moving on. They don’t do a honest assessment of their diving skills. I had to learn this the hard way, see here. [...] [...] To ensure team success, the entire team must be on the same page. Not just in knowing what is expected, but in skill and experience level. Inexperienced divers can learn a great deal from experienced divers, but they must learn it at their current experience level before moving on to something more aggressive and out of their level. This is one aspect of diving where people get into trouble. They simply try to do dives, or take classes, that are above what they are really capable of handling. The problem is they don’t know when to put the brakes on their diving and say, I need to get better before moving on. They don’t do a honest assessment of their diving skills. I had to learn this the hard way, see here. [...]

]]> By: Administrator http://precisiondiving.net/blog/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Administrator Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:11:16 +0000 http://precisiondiving.net/blog/2008/10/24/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/#comment-7 My focus was on mastering my basic fundamental diving skills. Those included trim, buoyancy, propulsion, etc. I also focused on being completely comfortable with those skills. Minimizing hand and feet movement, for example, are signs of discomfort. How do you maintain those skills? How did you remember to tie your shoes everyday? By practicing a lot. I went out and did dives where I just focused on the skills above. Once I thought I was comfortable. Then I started adding some task loading. Doing a valve drills, air shares, ascent/descent drills while focusing on my buoyancy, trim, team, and position in the water. Then just went out an dove and had fun. Dive Safe, Duane www.precisiondiving.net My focus was on mastering my basic fundamental diving skills. Those included trim, buoyancy, propulsion, etc. I also focused on being completely comfortable with those skills. Minimizing hand and feet movement, for example, are signs of discomfort. How do you maintain those skills? How did you remember to tie your shoes everyday? By practicing a lot. I went out and did dives where I just focused on the skills above.

Once I thought I was comfortable. Then I started adding some task loading. Doing a valve drills, air shares, ascent/descent drills while focusing on my buoyancy, trim, team, and position in the water. Then just went out an dove and had fun.

Dive Safe,
Duane
http://www.precisiondiving.net

]]> By: jblay http://precisiondiving.net/blog/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/comment-page-1/#comment-6 jblay Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:42:17 +0000 http://precisiondiving.net/blog/2008/10/24/why-i-took-time-off-technical-diving/#comment-6 So Duane, what did you work on for those months you took off from technical diving? What skills? What drills did you do to fine tune those skills? Once developed, how do you maintain them? So Duane, what did you work on for those months you took off from technical diving? What skills? What drills did you do to fine tune those skills? Once developed, how do you maintain them?

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