In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we discuss why skill variations and skill repeats are the secret sauce of outstanding dive instruction.
Welcome To The Show!
Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.
So today we discuss the secret sauce in diving instruction. Skill repeats and skill variations. Now you may be thinking repeating skills, duh, of course someone gets better repeating skills – I’m do that already. Well, not the way I’m talking about. So I’m gonna share how these are done and just why they are the key to making great divers.
Items In This Episode
- Repeats – regulator clears, regulator recoveries, mask clears, air sharing, rescue
- Variations – mask clears, entries, regulator recoveries, rescue
- When can skill variations be bad?
- Repeats and variations increase confidence, increase motor memory, and decrease stress
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