sort of.
I've been bitching and moaning about the abundance of DIRFy stuff on this forum. It seemed to me that the focus of DIR here was just on DIRF and not much past that. And I know that DIR is sooo much more than that.
However I just read a DIRF report in the Western Canada forum and it brought me back to around 1998 when I read a similar report. AG and Michael Kane were doing an "Intro to DIR" course which was not much different than how the DIRF course was a couple years ago except that I think that it was free. They took their show to Virginia Beach and one of the VBtech crew, who had a considerable amount of deep diving experience, took the course and around Saturday evening realized that he had been vastly overestimating his abilities and gave up the deep game until he could get his basic skills up. At the time I was a deep air, advanced nitrox kinda guy getting ready to take my trimix course; and firmly anti-DIR. After reading the report and watching Kane's transformation prior to this, I decided that maybe this DIR stuff is something to be checked out and not to be just dismissed out of hand as the ramblings of a madman and his sycophants. And so I set out on my own road of discovery.
To get to my point; While I would like to see more Tech/Cave 1/2 reports, I realize now that this forum could also use more reports from people that take a DIRF course with their experiences and observations. These reports are the ones that get those that are wondering what DIR is all about curious about pursuing instruction in DIR. I know that people that pass the course have usually worked very hard to get that pass. So what I would like to see is that if you are one of those and really appreciate what you learned in your DIRF, then put your thoughts into electrons and post them here. Your report may be the one that convinces someone else to look into DIR.
I've been bitching and moaning about the abundance of DIRFy stuff on this forum. It seemed to me that the focus of DIR here was just on DIRF and not much past that. And I know that DIR is sooo much more than that.
However I just read a DIRF report in the Western Canada forum and it brought me back to around 1998 when I read a similar report. AG and Michael Kane were doing an "Intro to DIR" course which was not much different than how the DIRF course was a couple years ago except that I think that it was free. They took their show to Virginia Beach and one of the VBtech crew, who had a considerable amount of deep diving experience, took the course and around Saturday evening realized that he had been vastly overestimating his abilities and gave up the deep game until he could get his basic skills up. At the time I was a deep air, advanced nitrox kinda guy getting ready to take my trimix course; and firmly anti-DIR. After reading the report and watching Kane's transformation prior to this, I decided that maybe this DIR stuff is something to be checked out and not to be just dismissed out of hand as the ramblings of a madman and his sycophants. And so I set out on my own road of discovery.
To get to my point; While I would like to see more Tech/Cave 1/2 reports, I realize now that this forum could also use more reports from people that take a DIRF course with their experiences and observations. These reports are the ones that get those that are wondering what DIR is all about curious about pursuing instruction in DIR. I know that people that pass the course have usually worked very hard to get that pass. So what I would like to see is that if you are one of those and really appreciate what you learned in your DIRF, then put your thoughts into electrons and post them here. Your report may be the one that convinces someone else to look into DIR.