WE OFFER:
TECH DIVER "QUALITY" FUNDAMENTALS TO ALL CERTIFICATION & LEADERSHIP LEVELS OF SCUBA DIVING
NOT PP SKILLS....NOT A DRESS UP AND PRETEND CERTIFICATION CLASS....A REAL BUOYANCY WORKSHOP!
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SCUBA Buoyancy & FROG KICK
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WE OFFER: TECH DIVER "QUALITY" FUNDAMENTALS TO ALL CERTIFICATION & LEADERSHIP LEVELS OF SCUBA DIVING NOT PP SKILLS....NOT A DRESS UP AND PRETEND CERTIFICATION CLASS....A REAL BUOYANCY WORKSHOP!
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IF YOU ARE A CAVE DIVER,
OR EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT ~
CLICK HERE
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| "No Performance Requirement in SCUBA Diving is more poorly defined or less often achieved than....Buoyancy Control." |
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WE MENTOR "ONLY" FUNDAMENTAL SCUBA SKILLS LEARNING BETTER BUOYANCY CONTROL IN A
WORLD CLASS DIVING DESTINATION CAN BE.. "FUN!"
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| WE MENTOR THE BUOYANCY SKILLS AND THE KICK THAT YOU NEED ON YOUR FIRST DAY OF CAVE CLASS WE KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE....DO YOU???
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WE DON'T
TEACH CAVE DIVING!
We
mentor cave diver "worthy" SKILLS!
WE LEAVE
THE TECH TRAINING TO THE TECH AND CAVE INSTRUCTORS
Because
we think that
you should already have "WHAT WE
OFFER"
....before you show up for any cave
or technical diver training.
Especially
if you are an instructor or divemaster....
OR....if "YOU ARE" the cave
or tech instructor.
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"DON'T
ALLOW EGO & AMBITION TO DEFINE YOUR DIVING!"
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We make a distinction between: SCUBA
PROFICIENCY
&
SCUBA TOYS & GADGETS! We
identify the limitations
of equipment .... .....in an"equipment dominated sport"!
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DO YOU
LOOK AS GOOD UNDERWATER AS YOU LOOK ON
PAPER OR PLASTIC?
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Do you look like the diver that anyone
else would like to be?
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"STOP SCULLING!"
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"LEARN TO FROG KICK!"
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" IMPROVE YOUR SCUBA!"
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YOU
DECIDE....Is it easier
to evaluate Buoyancy Control Skills by viewing STILL PHOTOS or VIDEO?
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WE
LIKE THE BP&W GEAR CONFIGURATION
THAT'S
WHAT
IT WAS CALLED BACK WHEN JOHN DID HIS CAVE DIVER TRAINING. BEFORE OTHERS
THOUGHT TO HIGHJACK IT & RENAME IT & MARKET IT AS SOMETHING
THAT THE CAVE PIONEERS NEVER INTENDED. & WE STILL CALL IT HOGARTHIAN! WE DIVE A
SOMEWHAT "HOGARTHIAN" SET UP WITH SINGLE TANKS IN OPEN WATER
BUT WE DON'T THINK THAT YOU HAVE TO LIKE IT BECAUSE WE DO. THE TYPE OF
BCD, THAT YOU PREFER, IS NOT AS CRUCIAL TO YOUR BUOYANCY SUCCESS
AS THE RETAILERS WOULD
HAVE YOU BELIEVE. SO ANY GEAR SET UP THAT YOU LIKE THAT HAS MINIMAL
"DANGLIES AND HOSE HALOS" SHOULD SERVE YOU WELL IN OUR WORKSHOPS.
NO SPLIT
FINS!
FAD FINS ARE NOT WELCOME AT OUR WORKSHOPS! |
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 "LOOK....NO
HANDS!"
Tough talk about buoyancy control. |
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Sculling
betrays substandard Fundamental Skills!
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| "meet us in:MEXICO!" |
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< ONE OF US IS A CAVE DIVER
One of us is a cave diver. But just a cave diver....not a cave instructor. AND not even a famous cave diver. NO exploration credits and no pending patents for state of the art dive gadgets. The only thing you can learn here is "above average buoyancy skills" and a pretty good FROG KICK! CAVE DIVING:
isn't the reason that we have good buoyancy . AND being
instructors isn't the reason we have good buoyancy skills either. We
actually
had good buoyancy skills before we embarked on leadership and technical
diver training.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM:
"almost
everyone" skips over that part. They just don't bother to acquire
exceptional fundamental skills. They tell themselves that their
Buoyancy Control is: "GOOD
ENOUGH!"
Some divers try to play "catch up" and a few succeed but most never revisit first base. They're the ones who share what they don't know about fundamental skills and the cycle, of substandard buoyancy control skills, across all certification and leadership levels, continues to prevail. WE DO NOT: dress
up in cave diving gear, in our videos, because we want the message to
be that "Exceptional Buoyancy Control
SKILLS" should be the domain of
all divers....not just technical divers. Every diver should settle for
nothing less than Tech Diver Buoyancy Skills!
IF YOU STILL BELIEVE IN
"THE STATUS QUO":....continue down that path....the path
of the "SCUBA CUSTOMER",
the path of "THE CASH COW".
BuoyancyQuest: OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE!AND FOR THE RECORD: there's no such thing as Buoyancy that's "GOOD ENOUGH!" |
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NO SPLIT FINS!
Give yourself a chance
to learn to:
FROG KICK!
We
believe that split
fins are
not the correct choice if you are attending
our
workshops.
ALSO: no hindged fins, force fins or other
dive
industry "state of the art" or FAD FOOTWEAR!
Please
don't think that we are selling or promoting:
JET
OR ROCKET TYPE FINS
CERTAIN
FACTIONS WITHIN THE TECHNICAL DIVING COMMUNITY BEGAN TO TOUT THESE
ITEMS MORE
FOR THE HEAVY RUBBER CONSTUCTION THAN FOR THE FLOW THRU CHANNELS. THESE
TYPES OF FINS WERE
INVENTED MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO, AT A TIME WHEN DIVERS KNEW LITTLE
ABOUT BUOYANCY CONTROL AND EVEN LESS ABOUT FROG KICKING....SO THESE
FINS ARE "NOT" THE BEST
CHOICE, LET ALONE, "THE ONLY CHOICE"
FOR FROG KICKING.
WEAR JET FINS IF YOU LIKE THEM. BRING THEM TO OUR WORKSHOP. JUST DON'T WEAR THEM IN
ORDER TO BE MISTAKEN FOR A....TECH DIVER
OR AN ELITE DIVER.
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 NO SPLIT
FINS! |
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MOST PADDLE
TYPE FINS WORK WELL FOR:
FROG
KICK!
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| FYI: | beware of people who say your buoyancy control will improve [ like magic ] if you just dive more. ask them if that's how they did it....BUT watch their hands the next time that you see them "UNDERWATER" |
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PERHAPS
IT'S TIME TO STOP MEASURING SCUBA DIVERS BY THEIR "CRAWL STROKES"?
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MY FIRST DIVE MASK
My
first dive mask was an "Adolph Kiefer" signature model from Sears
Roebuck. It was triangular in shape, blue in color and included no
option for pinching the nose to aid with equalization of the ears.
Adolph was a champion swimmer from the 1930s & early 1940s. Nobody
in the United States had ever heard of Jacques Cousteau or Mike
Nelson [ both were still years* away from their TV impact ]
so "a swimmer" was chosen to endorse a dive mask. I'm not
suggesting that this was the beginning of substituting swimming skills
for dive skills but I think comparisons can be drawn as to
why so many current "elite divers" are forgiven
their less than spectacular fundamental dive skills "IF"
they are good swimmers!
john noftall
*not that many years....it was 1953.
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