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| Originally Posted by Lou On the one hand we have the instructors being involved in suggesting that people do not practise, as such, for the course as they will only have to undo learning (primacy and all that good stuff) and reteach skills, and yet the message from you guys is very much that it didn't feel like you were taught, only like assessment and if you can't do it before the course you will struggle.
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Fair point as Mark said Lou, I still think that I was right not to practise and to see what the course would teach me. However I am satisfied with my provisional at this time and I feel that I have learnt valuable lessons which I will take forward with me.
However without training you will need to be a dive God to get through it with a straight pass. I think that is pretty much impossible to be honest unless you are really really together on the day. I know only one diver who I would think would pass without practising and he is DIR in the attitude and skill levels in diving even if they won't admit it.
It is a assesment there is no denying that but its also teachs you a whole lot but does not give you a lot of time to adapt to those recommended changes. That is exactly why they dish out provisionals so you can get up to the required standard.
I think if I had have passed it would have devalued the course and I would be standing here saying it was a lot of Bollox. Which it was not.
Divers in nature are proud of their skills and hate to be reminded that they are only human. Its the nature of what we do which is dangerous so we make ourselves feel better but blowing up our own opinions of our selves. Its a difficult pill to swallow when you are reminded of your fallibility.
Oh and lets not forget shit happens:-)