BUOYANCY ISSUES; SCUBA BUOYANCY CONTROL, TRIM & PROPULSION
DO YOU REALLY LOOK AS GOOD UNDERWATER....AS YOU LOOK ON PAPER OR PLASTIC?
DO YOU LOOK LIKE THE DIVER THAT ANYONE ELSE WOULD LIKE TO BE?
buoyancy control & trim
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TRY TO IMAGINE
A world in which 199 out of every 200 persons stumbled around like toddlers or drunks.
NOW YOU KNOW....
 ...how the aquatic world looks to the less than one half of one percent of divers who have excellent Buoyancy Control Skills.
WE ARE INSTRUCTORS.  WE DON'T DISPLAY AGENCY ACRONYMS OR INSTRUCTOR NUMBERS BECAUSE:
We want you to judge us and choose us by how we look underwater, in motion, not in still photos.

"WE ARE A PART OF THAT LESS THAN ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT!"

MOST MEGA AGENCY INSTRUCTORS  ARE NOT IN THAT COMPANY....
"THEY'RE JUST SELLING PLASTIC CARDS!
"

MANY WITHIN THE TECH DIVING INSTRUCTOR CORPS [ famous divers]
 HAVE "THE RIGHT SKILL SET"

  BUT.....
IT'S UNLIKELY THAT THEY'LL  BE "YOUR INSTRUCTOR"........ 
 EVEN IF THEY DID APPEAR IN THEIR AGENCY SPONSORED VIDEO.


MAKE SURE THAT THE TRAINING THAT YOU ARE PAYING FOR IS WORTH $$$$ IT!
BE SURE THAT YOU AREN'T JUST BUYING A PIECE OF PLASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

"No performance requirement in SCUBA Diving is more poorly defined or less often achieved than__Buoyancy Control."

Why not  be "THAT RARE DIVER" who looks "BETTER UNDERWATER" when almost everyone else doesn't?


"Seeing is believing!"
BUOYANCY CONTROL IS BEST LEARNED FROM VIEWING A COMPETENT MENTOR UNDERWATER
( Followed by efforts to imitate what you observed through the faceplate of your mask.)

CHOOSING A BUOYANCY CONTROL EXAMPLE....requires evaluating video of prospective mentors.
STILL PHOTOS OF BUDDHA HOVERING ONLY DEPICT 1/250th of a second!

There are one or two videos, on the internet, of tech divers or at least people who are dressed up like tech divers who are demonstrating hovering, and flat turns, aka “helicopter turns” and a somewhat choppy frog kick. These divers have skills that are typical of the buoyancy values that we promote. They are on a par with us and, perhaps in some cases, even more skilled. Some of them are Cave Diving Instructors who have made a name through various technical diving exploits. We aren't sure if they are "the best" at buoyancy control skills but we do know that we don't claim to be "the best". We do our best!  We  are pretty sure  that those famous guys  aren't interested in teaching "only fundamental dive skills". They may offer some sort of remedial skills training as a prelude to the more technical training that is their primary mission and it is our guess that the remedial buoyancy training responsibility will be franchised, just as is with the huge recreational agencies, and your mentor is likely to be someone other than the person that you viewed on the promotional video.

We have videos too but we did not dress up like cave divers in order to show you how good we are. We want the message to be better buoyancy skills and a better kick that is available to "any diver" not just tech divers or wannabe tech divers. We hope to show viewers that we are good enough to “keep our promise” to mentor these skills. If you opt to attend our workshop we promise to show you how to close the gap between your skills and our skills. We promise you will look better underwater. You will increase your dive times and realize a marked improvement to your comfort level.  You will look more like the diver that you have always wanted to be....but you won't win a plastic card.


We often use the bicycle riding analogy to compare to  fundamental dive skills because part of the problem is that most divers have no idea of the subtleties that define really great buoyancy control. We believe that our buoyancy skills equate with unicycle riders skills. Most bicycle riders can’t begin to imagine what it is like to ride a unicycle but they, can at least, recognize that there is a  gap. Because the difference between great buoyancy and mediocre or even abysmal buoyancy skills is less obvious, divers fail to see the difference. In other words, most divers fail to recognize or acknowledge great buoyancy talent in the same manner that they might understand bicycle riding skills. 

Many divers are like bicycle riders where buoyancy control is concerned and this includes most dive leaders aka. “the instructors”. Too many divers are like tricycle riders or bicycle riders with training wheels and this includes some dive leaders. Poor buoyancy is NOT limited to beginners. Poor buoyancy is like an epidemic and it is contagious and is passed on by ego and bad example. Practicing something “the wrong way” only guarantees that you may, in fact, excel at what you practice! You may perfect the "wrong thing". You may improve upon a myth! Mastering "bad habits" is not the right way to demonstrate SCUBA Proficiency!  Remember that the next time that you hear or read that “IF YOU DIVE MORE” you will master buoyancy control. That is NONSENSE! The available evidence points to the contrary in too many cases. Status and EGO play a much greater role in diving than  finesse. This is especially true of divers who skipped over foundation skills on their way to glory. Now that they have status, they'll not return to first base to acquire that missed talent. Ego will never allow it!

We are like unicycle riders, where buoyancy skills are concerned , and we can show you how we got from where you are to where we are. We can show you what you need to practice and how to practice. We can be your mentor! What we can’t do yet, is show you how to juggle on a unicycle or how to ride one on a high wire.....that is to say that we can’t show you more about buoyancy skills than we know or have mastered ourselves. We know our limits! We may be among the few divers who have above average buoyancy skills but we understand that there is "NO SINGLE buoyancy expert" who towers above all. We can only share with you what we can demonstrate. There's always room for improvement! There's no such thing as Buoyancy Skills that are "GOOD ENOUGH!"
Most of the others that we have seen offering buoyancy training do not know their limits!  What you'll learn from them, just as with us, is limited to what they can show you underwater!. They "talk the talk" and flash four letter acronyms & instructor numbers.

We admit that we are not very good at marketing Buoyancy Control Skills!
We are  better at Mentoring Buoyancy Control Skills!


john noftall

We prefer to "walk the walk"!

&
We don't pretend to be more than we are!
BUOYANCY CONTROL & TRIM
BUOYANCY & TRIM
Frog Kick (L)                        Flutter Kick (R)
TRY TO NOT GET CAUGHT PRETENDING TO BE MORE OF A DIVER THAN YOU ARE!
IF YOU HAVE NO FUNDAMENTAL BUOYANCY SKILLS....YOUR DIVING HAS NO FOUNDATION!
SEEING DIVE SKILLS IN A STILL PHOTO (above) IS NOT AS GOOD AS SEEING MOVING PICTURES (below)
We aren't afraid to let you view our skills.             Our workshop is about: sharing them with you!
STOP SCULLING!

LEARN TO FROG KICK!
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