Nightly F Report

[TSandM]

Okay, I'll stop thinking you guys are just too chicken to expose yourselves like we did!

 

[headhunter]

Okay, I'll stop thinking you guys are just too chicken to expose yourselves like we did!

I didn't say we weren't chicken!



I wanted to find a more dignified looking chicken, but this one might actually be more appropriate until I can do a proper frog kick. Right now, I'm sure my frog kick looks more like whatever this chicken is doing. :11:

For now, I guess I'll just consider myself a clown. :klclown:

Christian

 

[TSandM]

Boy, that really reminds me of Rick's video . . .

Speaking of Rick, how DID the Tuesday night dive go? Did you keep your mouth shut?

 

[Rick Inman]

Boy, that really reminds me of Rick's video . . .

Speaking of Rick, how DID the Tuesday night dive go? Did you keep your mouth shut?

Yes, I did. I was asked lots of questions, for which I gave general answers. We were diving the salmon spawn, and there were hundreds of fish everywhere. And neither the salmon, nor my buddy who had his eye firmly glued to the eye-piece of his video camera, noticed my newly acquired DIR skills.

 

[HBDiveGirl]

So, Claudette, how come we haven't heard anything about YOUR Fundies class?

As Headhunter mentioned, we've only heard the lectures so far.
All that great stuff, magical videos, and far-ranging discussions.

And now we wait another 8 days...
...until MHK and Brandon can begin to get all us clowns squared away and less goobered-up.
...until the neopreme hit the road.
...until our Charlie-Foxtrot moments are videotaped and shared with 50 of our closest friends on the big screens at Antonios restaurant in Avalon.
...until we can find out how bad it is and start to make it better, better, better...

Eager to start using some of these new ideas, I did 5 dives over 4 days and came to a thrilling conclusion:

I thought I was taking Fundies because I want the skills.

Hah!! I'm taking Fundies because I desperately NEED the skills.

I was used to evaluating my daily dive skills based on the PADI/NAUI, everybody-Skate, celebrate-the-lifestyle, school of diving. This sounds a little harsh, and I'm probably violating quarantine, but my tool box is pretty spotty.

Solid on some skills, a danger-to-myself-and-others elsewhere.

320 dives and 2 1/2 years into this experience, I'm reaching out into more challenging diving, but have no unified philosophy of diving that can help me consistently avoid error-based problems. And I show little consistency in my response to problems when they arise.

I'm pathetically dependent on my computer.

My pre-dive planning is too dependent on my teammates. Good sometimes, dreadful other times.

And I love diving even more than I realized before. Because now I see where I can go with it, and how I can get there. Cool.

So, our Fundies Games are about to begin.

And my Game is about to get a big kick in the rear... 'bout time!

To be continued soon on a thread near you...
... and thanks again for ALL the encouragement!!!!!

 

[TSandM]

I think it was Diver0001 who wrote to me that Fundies was an enormous paradigm shift, and it is.

You are 260 dives ahead of me, and I lived through it

 

[HBDiveGirl]

Okay, I'll stop thinking you guys are just too chicken to expose yourselves like we did!

Fundies traditions will be upheld!

Names will be ineffectively changed to fully reveal identities and events!!

No moment will be too embarrassing to be revealed!!!

Beans will be spilled, stool pigeons will sing!!!!

Stay tuned....

 

[Rick Inman]

One of our fellow students took some pics during the class dives at Seacrest Park, Alki, Cove 2.

LINK

On the first picture, diver on the left with the stylish hat is TSandM, guy putting on the gloves next to her is me, guy with back to camera and no hood (mustn't disturb the hairdo) is our instructor.

 

[kidspot]

Cool hood TSandM

thanks for sharing the pics Rick... you know if you come to Maui to dive with me you can leave the dry gloves at home

 

[Ms diver 57]

what is "fundies"