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on 7/5/00 9:26 PM, KRussellTX@ao*.co* at KRussellTX@ao*.co* wrote: > Membership in Team Stroke is restricted to anyone that wants to be a > member. Team Stroke members are allowed to append "TS" after their name. > In the case of multiple suffixes, TS will be last (e.g. Berty Poobah, > PhD, CPA, TS). Team Stroke members absolutely positively must follow > The Rules, if they feel like it. > > TS Rule 1: Dive with whomever ya please. > > TS Rule 2: Don't poke fun at non-Stroke divers. > > TS Rule 3: Even-numbered rules don't count. > > TS Rule 4: Avoid bowling. > > TS Rule 5: Use yer head and have fun. > > regards > El Stroko Guapo, TS > Team Stroke certificate (suitable for framing) # 0000000001 Sorry, it's been done and it was stupid then, too. Hell, I think I may have done it! <g> You can redefine stroke to be some minimalist, responsible, alter-ego of DIR, but you mischaracterize strokes and obviously, you just make shit up along the way. Strokes are also often UNSAFE divers. Not all of them, but that is an undeniable part of the description and how it was coined and I see you've conveniently left that out. You can be a stroke and NOT be unsafe of course. You can be a stroke and dive your whole life and never have a problem - mebbe. But the core notion of a stroke is one who doesn't get it, who doesn't pursue the best methods and who is primarily concerned with personal preference, not personal safety. I have never dove 100% DIR and to some extent that makes me a stroke, so I could join your club I suppose, but that would like joining the Crips or Bloods because I happen to wear a bandana on my head sometimes. I just wear the damn bandana, I have no desire to join a bunch of INTENTIONAL morons. I have fun every time I dive. I dive with whomever I please and yet I aspire more towards the DIR standard than to any other. Like me, it has evolved over the years. Once it was known as Hogarthian, now it's DIR. The name got streamlined. >DIR has found the truth. >Strokes never stop looking for it. I concede that to many it seems that way. But when you say "I know" you've stopped all discourse, all discovery on the matter. It's better to keep thinking to keep evolving and which is true of DIR? Well, look at the WKPP team several years ago and the gear and methods they used and look at them now. There's a difference, definite evolution. Not just "let's try this and see who it kills." For example, they thought out what a rebreather should do for a cave diver and some of the primary concerns were reliability and a safe bail-out. They evolved an instrument that met those criteria and more and now they have a tool that works and doesn't kill anyone. That's evolution. Truth is sought for, but still just beyond their grasp - as it should be. The other rebreather approach was the high-tech kitchen-sink approach. Throw all the high-tech crap in you can think of to solve every conceivable problem. Make it as complicated as an F-16 and hope it all works together: Death toll to date? 2 (am I leaving anyone out?) The WKPP is probably the most evolutionary dive group in the world today. Evolution is not just picking an item off a shelf because someone made it and you think it's cool. Real evolution entails looking closely at what you do, what works and how you can improve it. Evolution is a slow process of small changes, not always obvious to the observer. >DIR is style. Really? An effective diving system that has been a the core of the most successful diving team in recent memory? That's style? Go to Barnes & Noble and buy the Merriam-Webster Paperback Dictionary, it's $4.79. You might want to look some things up. But I think you have coined a new and useful term: Team Stroke. Just like it sounds, it's a synonymous phrase for a Circle-Jerk. A common reques at a Team-Stroke would be: "Pass the K-Y." Good luck, JoeL -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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