How often do you practice skills

[Neptuno]

Yeah Thomas told me his face was dragging in the mud and at one point his breathing reg free flowed cause the purge valve was pressing down in the mud so hard.

LOL.... (I have no clue where the smileys are...) he should have tried moving a bit to the side to a bigger part of the cave lol.... that dive was fun

Are you sure it does not go further, or should we look solo? I am sick of not diving and now and it is actually starting to get to me, I am writing this with my helmet on.

you do need to double check, was too muddy

[DaveP]

"or should we look solo?" I will let Cris comment on that...

[phillip1]

Oh yeah I forgot about that, a bit of miscommunication on that one.
I'll go but only in three months,arrgh

[LCF]

Well, I actually voted before I read the entire first post. At home, I try to do a skills dive at least once a month, and run through S-drills and valve drills, gas switches, putting bottles down and picking them up, and the like. But I don't practice line skills much at home -- usually a dive or so before we leave on a cave diving trip -- and I am STILL horribly guilty about not practicing lights-out line following exits and moving the team across the line, even though it was made abundantly clear to me in Cave 2 that those are skills you absolutely lose if you don't use them.

But I'm good at backup light deployment. THAT's the only cave skill I've had to use in anger

[Bobby]

The right reel never jams...

While I don't practice jammed reel, line cutting, etc, I do demonstrate valve drills, both in backmount and sidemount to my students on a regular basis.

I would like to know what reel that is? This weekend I got to see a Salvo reel jammed. I did not know that there was a reel that NEVER jams.

Bobby

[phillip1]

All reels jam at some point, even the best "jam proof" ones. Practicing jamming a reel many many times out of the water really helps to unjam it fast underwater, at least it does for me.

[stairman]

I usually just start wrapping the string around the whole body and sort it out on the surface. Removing the c-clip underwater and getting it back on without it falling is tough. Another skill Id like to try is in the event of wing failure diving wet, how hard it is to ride someone out.

[FW]

... Another skill Id like to try is in the event of wing failure diving wet, how hard it is to ride someone out.

Depends on who the "someone" is

[sskasser]

Depends on who the "someone" is

ROFL, now that's taking "buddy closeness" to a whole new level!