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Be hard for anyone to argue or disagree with that but lets see how it turns out.
Exactly. And we had no ego to hurt. It was just a class for learning, not a test to pass or fail. A fun and enjoyable experience, contrary to many course reports...
Dogbowl
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) Everyone's abilities and how they handle perceived success and failure are different.
Dogbowl
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taimen has mentioned before how Fundies was not hard for him, and I respect that. We're all different.
The other point of view here certainly makes sense. I can imagine a hypothetical person with no prior knowledge of diving learning to dive in the full tech gear configuration, and although it would look hard to you and me and take a while, he won't know it's hard and taking longer because he doesn't know of any other way. I doubt anyone has ever done that, so it's hypothetical, but I do know that people have learned to dive in a BP/W without prior experience with a traditional BC, and they apparently thought nothing of it, while for me, getting used to a BP/W was hard in itself.
The other point of view here certainly makes sense. I can imagine a hypothetical person with no prior knowledge of diving learning to dive in the full tech gear configuration, and although it would look hard to you and me and take a while, he won't know it's hard and taking longer because he doesn't know of any other way. I doubt anyone has ever done that, so it's hypothetical, but I do know that people have learned to dive in a BP/W without prior experience with a traditional BC, and they apparently thought nothing of it, while for me, getting used to a BP/W was hard in itself.
KevinNM
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I had more dives than everyone else in my Rec fundies class. They both had 20 or so, I had over 100. We all got rec passes, though one required some additional coaching on deco theory. There certainly were places where I did the wrong thing because that’s what I was used to. They struggled in areas too, but I wish I had done fundies earlier.
I think having more dives makes getting to the tech level harder. The instructors expect consistent high level performance to standards, which is hard when your learned reaction is to do something other that what they want to see.
They teach what to most people are new skills and you have to be able to execute those when needed, but basically fundamentals is a task loading exercise. Can you do enough things correctly while still maintaining trim and buoyancy? Which amounts to, in more complex diving, is can you handle a problem while not silting out a cave or blowing up a deco stop by like sinking from 20 feet to 30 feet on 100%.
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