Quote Originally Posted by twaldo View Post
Honestly (yeah I have 22 dives and I'm saying this) I think ANY program that is teaching 1/6ths is outdated... every person I' have known that took an intro class that included 1/6's dove 3rds ANYWAY.... its just like muscle memory... if you go switching the game in the middle it messes up your thought processes... Come on guys, if you have standards that are worth following maybe your divers would.... and you can have awesome instructors without regard to the agency.
Are you serious? I've never met anyone at the intro level breaking sixths. And If I did, I would have let him know exactly what I think of it.
Now some of the intro limitations, like not being able to leave the gold line or navigate a T, are not something I think makes all that much sense.
So in fact, some people "dance around" these limitations and run their primaries way into the cave to some line off the gold, or run a line from gold to practice "buddy searches" into side passages, thus sort of bypassing their limitations.
Actually I've helped people explore the limits of their intro rules too and think it's fine.
But, breaking sixths?, WTH is that about?
I'm beginning to think that maybe the intro limitations are not so much the problem as immature cave divers receiving Cave1 bonus limitations.