You've completely lost me here! 'offhand way' ?? Just because I don't always agree with everything someone else says doesn't mean I have to get all stressed out. Unless I'm mistaken you have been the one basically saying that I'm wrong, and belittling the training that I've had - and you've never even been in the water with me. Actually I wonder if you really read/understood what I posted earlier as I haven't attacked DIR at all - I simply stated that I'd been taught some things differently - I never said it was better - or that DIR was worse - it was simply different, although several of the skills I had to do are now also part of the DIR-F course from what I understand - so where exactly is your problem?? If you think that you now know everything that there is to know about diving the right way, that's fine by me - but please don't try to ram it down my throat.Mar Scuba:I'm an advocate of a "kindler, gentler" DIR philosophy, but perhaps for some reason the offhand way that KimLeece writes in his posts sets me off and makes me want to set the record straight.
I'm sure that DIR-F is a great course - for the third time, congratulations!! For me it's not the be-all and end-all of diving, and when someone tries to tell me that it is, I tend to switch off.