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I have just the course for you... and not too far from home eitherAquaTec once bubbled...
I believe in taking some sort of formal training every couple of years to keep up my skills in an enviroment of evaluation.
If you have those fundamental skills down pat then I would suggest starting out with Tech1... and you might want to take one or more of your current tech buds with you. Actually... if you could get a group together to take the class you might get the GUE team to come to you.... might.AquaTec once bubbled...
I was recently looking at 5th D new video stuff, it seems that if you can do the skills with good boyancy then there is not much difference than some of the other courses i have taken, or skills that we do anyways.