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To donate, grab hose right at the regulator and shove into mouth of the other person. You usually won't have to do this as the panicked little buggers usually just come up and grab it out of your mouth.
Yes, you can cancel anytime. I cancelled mine with no issues.GUE.tv is a subscription-based service (25USD per month, cancel anytime, I believe),
Hit the nail on the head. All I was thinking, but didn't want to write out(cuz it would take a while). You did it better than I would have.The gue.tv video on the s-drill is really good! You can get a 3-day trial which should be enough to get familiar with it. gue.tv is expensive on its own but if you consider it as a part of the cost of taking a fundamentals class it's not that much. There are a lot of great videos - valve drills, smb deployment, fin kicks.
Some things that might trip you up during the s-drill:
- Managing the light cord. If you have a corded you'll need to manage the cord both when fully deploying the long hose and when cleaning up
- After you donate you get side by side and swim while maintaining touch contact
- If donor is on the left side, OOG diver puts the long hose behind the neck to avoid a kink in it (this tripped me up first time I did a land drill)
- Donating diver grabs regulator by the hose near the boltsnap, not by the mouthpiece
- OOG diver uses left hand to hold donated regulator.
- I think the video above is showing slightly wrong technique. You don't use your left hand at all while donating (except to switch to backup, and do the light cord dance). I guess it's harder to do a full-deployment without a buddy that's why you need two hands. In the real s-drill you have a buddy so it's a little easier.
There's a bit more to it than that
Yes, you can cancel anytime. I cancelled mine with no issues.
In that first video, why is the regulator switch protocol different? In one, the diver has to purge the second stage and for the other second stage switch, he does not?