At 02:27 PM 1/18/00 -0800, Walter Jaccard wrote:
>Scott,
>
>The DIR term is stroke.  We don't need a new name.
>
>Walter

Well, Scott's "cheesedick" is focusing more on the equipment freak with all 
the right gear and no ability to "fly" it. Until now the stroke term has 
been applied whenever old salts are set in their ways -- great divers with 
mediocre hardware. This is actually the opposite -- neophytes with great 
gear. I think it's prudent to point out that equipment alone doesn't make a 
DIR diver. This will be obvious to anyone with a track record. However, 
wannabes may give DIR a bad name as more divers adopt WKPP gear configs and 
think that's all it takes.

Rather than inventing more names, how about placing as much emphasis on 
rigorous training as we do on selecting the best tools? This true spirit of 
DIR may easily be reduced to equipment configs as we DIR on the internet ;-)

regards,

Hans

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