Students are all different. Some just want to dive with a buddy, some move straight to AOW.
If you need some more practice with basic skills then you could hire an instructor for a couple of dives and plan a personal "course" just for you. Certainly if you did skills in OW while kneeling down then you will need time to improve buoyancy. Mask skills, while bouyant, need to become "easy" for you.
You know much more now than you did before OW so choose your instructor with care. You obviously want to improve your diving so no more "kneeling on the bottom" for anything.
Remember, the "deep" dive for AOW is a dive planning exercise, NDL exercise and gas management exercise, not just about going deep. When I teach this the "planning" takes as long as the dive!
Do come back and let us know what you did and how it went.
A couple of articles for you to read.
5 Important things To Do after passing your Open Water Course » My St Kitts Dive Buddy What to do after passing your open water.
When should you take your Advanced Open Water Course. » My St Kitts Dive Buddy
If you need some more practice with basic skills then you could hire an instructor for a couple of dives and plan a personal "course" just for you. Certainly if you did skills in OW while kneeling down then you will need time to improve buoyancy. Mask skills, while bouyant, need to become "easy" for you.
You know much more now than you did before OW so choose your instructor with care. You obviously want to improve your diving so no more "kneeling on the bottom" for anything.
Remember, the "deep" dive for AOW is a dive planning exercise, NDL exercise and gas management exercise, not just about going deep. When I teach this the "planning" takes as long as the dive!
Do come back and let us know what you did and how it went.
A couple of articles for you to read.
5 Important things To Do after passing your Open Water Course » My St Kitts Dive Buddy What to do after passing your open water.
When should you take your Advanced Open Water Course. » My St Kitts Dive Buddy