Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
I might be crazy, but I have to ask, How many people here are minimalists?
What is a minimalist?
From everything I have gathered and figured out for myself is that a minimalist is one who has stripped all unnecessary gear from their configuration and dives with only the minimal amount of gear needed to pull off the dive being done at that moment.
Less is more.
Minimalism was born from the old school. Not that the old school ever went away, but rather there is a whole new group of divers out there that maybe were not around when diving first started. SO in that regard they can't really be called "old school", but instead they have modernized the gear and have studied and employ the same principles of how diving was done years ago. These divers typically have a few years of experience and have had it with the direction of where diving and dive gear has gone.
I for one have never been happier in my diving life since I have eliminated most all the useless garbage from my configuration. Not only do I think it safer from an entaglement hazard standpoint, but I find that the freedom and the streamlining is fantastic, just like flying around freediving!
I think it's time to officially coin the name and set a definition of what a minimalist is; the gear configuration and the diving protocols.
Let's start a discussion.
What is a minimalist?
From everything I have gathered and figured out for myself is that a minimalist is one who has stripped all unnecessary gear from their configuration and dives with only the minimal amount of gear needed to pull off the dive being done at that moment.
Less is more.
Minimalism was born from the old school. Not that the old school ever went away, but rather there is a whole new group of divers out there that maybe were not around when diving first started. SO in that regard they can't really be called "old school", but instead they have modernized the gear and have studied and employ the same principles of how diving was done years ago. These divers typically have a few years of experience and have had it with the direction of where diving and dive gear has gone.
I for one have never been happier in my diving life since I have eliminated most all the useless garbage from my configuration. Not only do I think it safer from an entaglement hazard standpoint, but I find that the freedom and the streamlining is fantastic, just like flying around freediving!
I think it's time to officially coin the name and set a definition of what a minimalist is; the gear configuration and the diving protocols.
Let's start a discussion.