Tom Falardeau
June 24th, 2007, 11:18 PM
The Rules of Doing It Sidemount (with no apologies whatsoever to our friends on the "other" side of the diving philosophy divide)
1. Never dive with people who don't understand why sidemount works
2. Never be afraid to tinker with your gear
3. Wear the helmet with pride - it shows intelligence and forethought
4. Explore where backmounters hesitate to go - or just plain can't go
5. Be nice to the DIR people - remember that Jesus was nice to Pharisees
6. Never worry about how you look underwater. The only thing that counts is not damaging the cave.
7. Avoid useless expenditure of effort - dive lazy
8. Practice may make perfect, but the whole point is to do the dive - skip the quarry, do the cave
Any of the sidemount gang want to add some more rules?
BTW - any diving philosophy necessarily implies a paradigm - break out of paradigm paralysis and widen your horizons.
1. Never dive with people who don't understand why sidemount works
2. Never be afraid to tinker with your gear
3. Wear the helmet with pride - it shows intelligence and forethought
4. Explore where backmounters hesitate to go - or just plain can't go
5. Be nice to the DIR people - remember that Jesus was nice to Pharisees
6. Never worry about how you look underwater. The only thing that counts is not damaging the cave.
7. Avoid useless expenditure of effort - dive lazy
8. Practice may make perfect, but the whole point is to do the dive - skip the quarry, do the cave
Any of the sidemount gang want to add some more rules?
BTW - any diving philosophy necessarily implies a paradigm - break out of paradigm paralysis and widen your horizons.