Today's OW Course

[joe rock]

I'm trying to relate diving to another activity within the same context e.g. a climber coming back to the sport after a period of inactivity. It's typically a no brainer, the skills learned (certainly from my perspective) might be slightly rusty but they haven't gone away MAINLY cos they were well taught in the first place. For me it was my father so I can't make any statements about learning to climb via an agency.

However, for too many people I've seen, their skill levels were simply never there in the first place. OW is genuinely a license to learn for most people I've come across. These, in fairness, have been vacation divers.

Refreshers are a great idea but it's a sad compensation for decent well learned skills in the first place.

Just my two p.

J

Fundamentaly I don't disagree. Will you accept the following:
1. Skill taught well, but not refined and reinforced by constant use will be lost
2. Skill taught well and refined can suffer with long periods of in activity. The knowledge might be there, but not the musle memory.

I learned to drive on a standard shift, my first car was a standard shift. I then drove an automatic for 25 years when I again bought a standard shift car. My skills honed well in my drive training needed some time to come back after not using them. :depressed: No, I didn't forget them.

JR