Favoring tech-flavored rig setups from the beginning

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I posted here about skipping jacket BCD directly to a BP/W configuration, about which I found enough consensus.

What other more tech-flavored configurations you believe could also be adopted very early on by enthusiast, savvy divers willing to progress to tech in the near future?

The reasons may be a combination of various factors, you name it: it may be because it's advantageous and with easy-to-overcome disadvantages, because it may be more flexible for different conditions, because it's more durable, because it's less expensive in the long run, because it may be lighter or simpler, because it gives better trim and balance and/or because it has less points of failure.
 
Long hose with bungee back ups. I have taught OW classes with students on it. No problems. Also had them in BPW's. Use of reels, spools, and SMB's can also be taught to OW students with minimal extra time. That is if the instructor knows how use em themself. More than few don't so they will give some BS about it being dangerous or too far above a new divers ability.
 
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Double ender bolt snaps and caveline tied boltsnaps onto accessories.

Bp/W or not, you'll be much happier using those rather than the plastic clips, lanyards, and do-hickies that often are semi-difficult to clip on, but impossible to clip off.
 
Long hose with bungeed backup absolutely.

Also, think about how you are going to carry things as you accumulate items like reels and SMB. Clipping everything on makes you start to have alot of dangly bits that can get caught and tangled on things as you go by. Think about pockets, either attached to your drysuit or wetsuit, or in the form of shorts.
 
Agree completely with long hose/bungeed secondary and pockets on exposure suits. Also consider a stiffer paddle fin, which will make learning the non-silting and precise positioning kicks much easier. Whether it's a heavier Jet or F1, or the lighter Slipstream or Dive Rite EXP will depend on what you need to trim out properly.
 
Small set of isolated doubles from the get-go wouldn't hurt much other than your wallet.
 
Maybe a trivial question, but why long hose and bungee necklace setup are better than the default configuration of short hose and octopus in D-ring, and since better why is it not embraced?
 
Maybe a trivial question, but why long hose and bungee necklace setup are better than the default configuration of short hose and octopus in D-ring, and since better why is it not embraced?

Donating the regulator that you're breathing guarantees the stressed OOA diver is getting a functioning regulator with the proper gas. Having the secondary under your chin means you know where it is (not dragging along the bottom). The long hose allows you to share gas single-file in an overhead environment, with the OOA diver placed in front. For open water you won't have to exit through a restriction, but having some room between you and your OOA buddy can be nice. It is embraced more or less in the tech world, although it starts to break down for sidemount and rebreather divers. As for the recreational divers, I would assume just history and lack of awareness.
 
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