dlarbale
Contributor
All (esp UP and Mike F)....
I've been having some heated debates with a fellow Instructor and a newly certified PADI open water student about the use of ankle weights. The debate got so heated that I blurted out that they should come diving with me and I'd show them that ankle weights are unnecessary and that the term 'floaty feet' is a load of garbage.
Well needless to say they've decided to take me up on the offer to show me once and for all that 'floaty feet' do exist and therefore their requirement for ankle weights is a valid one!!
So now I'm faced with the task of trying a few things to remove the necessity of ankle weights (and more importantly prove that I'm right ).
Now I've a few ideas of my own that will help me acheive this but what I don't want is for my lack of experience in getting someone else's trim right to result in yet another student wasting money on ankle weights. So what process would you guys go through in order to get the trim right?
Thanks in advance - Dave.
PS// I don't want to teach them the flutter or frog-kick just yet so lets stick with a normal (PADI) finning action.
I've been having some heated debates with a fellow Instructor and a newly certified PADI open water student about the use of ankle weights. The debate got so heated that I blurted out that they should come diving with me and I'd show them that ankle weights are unnecessary and that the term 'floaty feet' is a load of garbage.
Well needless to say they've decided to take me up on the offer to show me once and for all that 'floaty feet' do exist and therefore their requirement for ankle weights is a valid one!!
So now I'm faced with the task of trying a few things to remove the necessity of ankle weights (and more importantly prove that I'm right ).
Now I've a few ideas of my own that will help me acheive this but what I don't want is for my lack of experience in getting someone else's trim right to result in yet another student wasting money on ankle weights. So what process would you guys go through in order to get the trim right?
Thanks in advance - Dave.
PS// I don't want to teach them the flutter or frog-kick just yet so lets stick with a normal (PADI) finning action.