blueskies_up_ahead
Contributor
Hello everyone,
I'm looking at taking an entry level tech class (either with GUE or TDI). I want to enhance my skills, get them to be precise and reliable. All of that for the sake of being a better diver, because I'm a perfectionist and in prepartion for actually venturing into tech. Next steps would be some intro to decompression (ANDP I'm thinking) and down the road possibly testing if cave is something I'm interested in and cut out for. But that's a more distant possibility.
Now my question is what do you suggest I work on before taking the fundamentals / intro to tec course? What I am doing:
I'm looking at taking an entry level tech class (either with GUE or TDI). I want to enhance my skills, get them to be precise and reliable. All of that for the sake of being a better diver, because I'm a perfectionist and in prepartion for actually venturing into tech. Next steps would be some intro to decompression (ANDP I'm thinking) and down the road possibly testing if cave is something I'm interested in and cut out for. But that's a more distant possibility.
Now my question is what do you suggest I work on before taking the fundamentals / intro to tec course? What I am doing:
- getting really comfortable at mask clearing (including no mask swim and switching to a backup mask)
- trim & buoyancy (trying to hover still but I'm struggling with that as my trim is not fully perfect but I'm practicing in a single cylinder setup for now)
- DSMB
- anything related to regulator removal & switching (just switching between regs, S drills as well as gas sharing scenarios)
- finning: helicopter turn both sides, backkick (frog kick is what I use anyways, so no need to practice), as well as modified frog kick and modified flutter kick
- what I cannot practice are valve drills as I'm diving a single cylinder (with two valves, but I cannot reach those)