Do a nice breast stroke, and you might rip your buddies reg out of his mouth.
Is there a youtube video? Inquiring minds would like to see that breast... with buddy's long hose wrapped around it presumably?
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Do a nice breast stroke, and you might rip your buddies reg out of his mouth.
Is there a youtube video? Inquiring minds would like to see that breast... with buddy's long hose wrapped around it presumably?
My wife/buddy has a regrettable habit of hitting my camera or even knocking off my mask with her hands...unintentionally, of course.
When I have a new student using their hands in confined water, it is never for the right reasons. They are not supplementing their kick, they are not using it to facilitate a turn. I believe it is due to some combination of failing to fin/kick much/correctly or even to kick at all; trying to manage their position in the water column; or just nervousness and habit due to an ingrained default belief that "I will sink and drown if I stop moving in water."
So yeah, stop using your hands and just use your feet, your BCD, and your lungs please. But also, okay, go ahead and use your hands to turn in a tight space. Show me you can do that, and then later on you can try to convince me that using hands to swim on scuba isn't a near complete waste of energy.
Now, who mentioned Mike Nelson? He used his hands ALL the time, both swimming and sculling. But go look at the size of the duck fins he was wearing, and notice that there is no buoyancy device at all, just a wetsuit, a weight belt, and a tank or two strapped to his back. Different needs, different techniques.
It doesn't take much imagination that if a mask can come off, a reg can come out, too.
I was with a newb diver over the weekend (his 33rd). My observations: he was not using his BCD to maintain trim and he was skulling to maintain position in the water column. It’s not that he wasn’t trained, he just hasn’t developed the habit. He doesn’t know what to do with his hands, so he waves them around. If you tell them what you see, or better film it, they will fix it.
We suck in the beginning
I was with a newb diver over the weekend (his 33rd). My observations: he was not using his BCD to maintain trim and he was skulling to maintain position in the water column. It’s not that he wasn’t trained, he just hasn’t developed the habit. He doesn’t know what to do with his hands, so he waves them around. If you tell them what you see, or better film it, they will fix it.
We all suck in the beginning
He has to make up for those fins somehow.
This guy. Uses hands.