nwbrewer
Contributor
Okay, guys, I'm now feeling as though I ought to go sit in the corner for being interested in doing this . . . I've actually been thinking about SM for quite a while, simply because I need so much help getting in and out of the water at some of the cenotes, or climbing the goat tracks back to the car. Taking a SM class was on my (now very short) list of classes I still wanted to do. I'm not quite sure why I should feel at all guilty about looking into a gear configuration that solves problems for me . . . Can any of you who are suggesting that explain WHY?
Too much assimilation. Too much belief in the way you do things now.
"DIR" (whatever that means now) training is all about a holistic system that's been very well thought out and designed to maximize the chances of returning to 0' safely.
There is a reason for why everything is done a certain way within that system. You get to the point where changing ANYTHING about that system leads to thinking about all the reasons why it was done the way it was, and what kind of danger doing it another way exposes you to. That's not to say there's anything wrong with doing it differently, you just have to wrap your brain around a new set of + and - issues with your new setup.
Will you feel better once UTD rolls out their SM curriculum?
Jake