castanagajt
Contributor
So here I am on my second confined water dive wearing my brother's yellow Force Fin Pros for the PADI program at my local SPORT CHALET here in Las Vegas, more specifically the Crossroads Commons location, and, well, the usual situation comes about.
I'll let you all take a second to think back a bit and guess what that is...
Time's UP!!!
You all must have guessed it! THAT'S RIGHT!!! The instructor, and his assistant, scolded me about my choice of fins, saying that these fins are only designed for use in fishing with waders. I don't get why they chose this confined dive to point that out to me, because the one prior they didn't even bother mentioning them. Along with this, they told me that during our Open Water dives they require that I wear a different pair of fins, and that, because of wearing those other fins on that dive, I'll notice a huge power difference in the way they work.
Sure, later on when we went down into the pool, they started noticing the different type of kick that I had to perform to make them work, pointing that out to me on the surface. But then again, they didn't even point out the difference in maneuverability that I had in comparison to everyone else's fins, this being that I had more of a free range of movement and ease of directional changes compared to them.
I guess it's just the instilled ignorance that they have towards these fins through certain magazines and other such material. I still don't get why they just don't accept that these fins can hang, even surpass, others in many aspects in the water. I hope in time that this problem does not come up with others who choose to use Force Fins in the future.
I'll let you all take a second to think back a bit and guess what that is...
Time's UP!!!
You all must have guessed it! THAT'S RIGHT!!! The instructor, and his assistant, scolded me about my choice of fins, saying that these fins are only designed for use in fishing with waders. I don't get why they chose this confined dive to point that out to me, because the one prior they didn't even bother mentioning them. Along with this, they told me that during our Open Water dives they require that I wear a different pair of fins, and that, because of wearing those other fins on that dive, I'll notice a huge power difference in the way they work.
Sure, later on when we went down into the pool, they started noticing the different type of kick that I had to perform to make them work, pointing that out to me on the surface. But then again, they didn't even point out the difference in maneuverability that I had in comparison to everyone else's fins, this being that I had more of a free range of movement and ease of directional changes compared to them.
I guess it's just the instilled ignorance that they have towards these fins through certain magazines and other such material. I still don't get why they just don't accept that these fins can hang, even surpass, others in many aspects in the water. I hope in time that this problem does not come up with others who choose to use Force Fins in the future.