Getting it clear
The rapidly growing popularity of sidemount diving shows that is in its fancy and us such is only now beginning to gain widespread acceptance.
The bad think is that, as in technical diving ten – twelve years before, educators are guiding largely by intuition, with little in the way of standard practice or experience to help them pilot their way ahead.
While various people compete to represent their imagination of how sidemount diving should be conducted, often they mixing into this their belief that sidemount diving is a singular form of diving.
I maintain that a solid diving foundation is not unique to sidemount diving. What makes sidemount diving sound is what makes all forms of diving sound: rigorous training, education and practice.
This is the common to all forms of diving practice. The fundamental bedrock from which safe and efficient diving practices emerge.
In my courses I seek to establish a base line for fundamental and advanced diving practices. The overriding assumption tying all these together is that there is a baseline of fundamental skills and procedures that promote safety, efficient and ultimately fun diving.
Sidemount diving is something more than equipment and configurations on where you put your SPGs or your dog-clips. Sidemount diving is the definition of technical diving from the entry sidemount level with one cylinder.
The reason I am saying this is because in my sidemount courses the equipment issues is a part of the training. The main principle of your training with me is the work on how you will become a better thinking team diver that will be able to talk and choose where to put the SPG and the dog-clip with arguments. Not just because you heard or read it somewhere.
In a few words, during your training with me, you will learn how to filter the information you ''accept'' from conversations with others, from press and forums, so you to be able to choose what is the best for you, and not for the guru who you listen or read.
After that we will work, on how with the correct way of thinking you will perform better your skills and the safety during your future dives with others.
We will do EDUCATION before Training because Training is part of education!!!
To this end I wish you the best in your sidemount training and diving and I hope that in some small way my articles will help and support your better safety and more fun within your personal choices!!
Safe diving,
Spyros Kollas
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