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No, he did not. Not my OW Instructor. I did not see skills like that until my Technical training.
I am grateful for instructors that demonstrate skill even in OW. I think it is very important that these skills be shown as early as possible.
For some reason I can not "Thank" this post. So I will Thank you with words for this helpful post.
The "Thanks" feature has been discontinued on ScubaBoard (there's a thread about it in Site Support).
My OW instructor did not do skills while hovering ... despite this, I felt he did a far more thorough job than a lot of OW classes.
I learned this technique when I was a DM ... from a PADI instructor I worked with. He would either demonstrate, or ask one of his DM's to demonstrate, a skill while hovering. The students would ... as in this video ... first try the skill while kneeling, then progressively work toward performing it while hovering.
That is now how I teach my OW class. I want the students to see the end-point, but my expectation is that they'll arrive at that end-point through a progression that takes them from the familiar into the "brave new world" of zero gravity.
It works out pretty well ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)