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That hits the nail on the head. Mike Zimmerman wrote: > > In a tech class the instructor has say over how you are configured. > > Only partly.. I still have to agree. If I show up for a "tech" course > and the guy shoves a pair of Beauchat 120 lead-sleds at me, I'll tell > him to take a hike. > > >It is > >assumed here that the reason you are taking a tech class is to learn how > >to configure and use your gear. > > I'm there for the skills, the knowledge, and for "tweaking" my gear. > After reading these forums for what, 7 years now, I feel like I won't be > majorly reconfiguring, more I will be tweaking. > > And in the past when I have done major reconfigures, such as when > I knew I wanted to start my cave class, and knew I would be diving > doubles, I did not practice the new gear configs in _class_ ... I called > the instuctor ahead of time, asked what the basic configs where, and > practiced them on my own ahead of time, in the quarry, in 30' of water. > I may seem overly cautious for not trying 5 pieces of new gear on > one dive in 150' of water in a cave, but hell I'm young, I've got plenty > of time to do it slowly and right... and live to do it another day. > > What gear config info can one not get off the net nowadays? > Doubles, hose routing, stage bottle rigging.... > > My point is that even though I seek the best instructor, I try > to be sure I can survive the worst instructor. > > >Why do you make the assumption here that > >the student already knows tech before taking a course in it? > > Because it is within the reach of most divers to learn quite a bit > about a course before they take it. Especially those already > certified at AOW level and looking at the "tech" courses. > > This is not to relieve bad instructors from blame, but to insist > that I refuse to be the helpless idiot diver that you insist I must be > when I take a class and am temporarily a "student" (actually I am > always a student). Sorry I refuse to turn my brain off. I'd like > to think I still play a part in my life decisions. > > You guys take this argument to such extreme that you seem to > say a competent student can never overcome an incompetent instructor. > This is the logical conclusion if it is always the complete fault > of the instructor every-single-time something happens. > > Mike > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Guns and Armour of SCAPA FLOW 1998 Underwater Photographic Survey of Historic Wrecks http://www.gunsofscapa.demon.co.uk -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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