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125 How to Remember Your Students’ Names

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn strategies to help remember your students names.

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.

If you’re like me and millions of people around the world, you hate the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing someone’s name. It happens all the time and as I age it seems to actually be happening more. But I learned a long time ago that it’s not proper to dismiss this and say “oh I’m horrible with peoples’ names.” When you tell that to someone, they understand the challenge themselves, but some names and people are more important than others. We tend to remember those names. So, subconsciously when you say that to people they actually think you don’t care enough about them to remember their name. This goes from being a legitimate excuse to driving a wedge in connecting with people.

And if you repeat this, you will never get better at it. In fact, according to researchers at the University of Florida, there are numerous legitimate reasons why most people have a hard time recalling peoples names. But, if you can tap into techniques that help you remember peoples names you will have a better time of relationship building and connecting with others. And one of the top groups we need to make an immediate connection with is our students and our customers. As leadership guru Dale Carnegie said, “A person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language.” So in today’s episode we’re going to get into strategies that help you remember your students’ names.

Also, I want to give a shoutout to Ted Harty with Immersion Freediving, he is putting on the first ever Freediving Summit. You heard him talk about it in last week’s episode. This is where 29 of the worlds best in freediving were assembled for individual interviews if you are into freediving at all, or are even remotely interested in the sport, you’ve got to check it out. Simply access the Freediving Summit by going to the Freediving Summit link on our show notes page for this episode over at ScubaGuru.com.

Items In This Episode

  • Verbal and mental repeat
  • Use mnemonic devices
  • Use name props
  • Try seating charts
  • Use photos

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Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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123 Why Freediving Should Be A Part Of Every Dive Business With Ted Harty

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn why Freediving should be a part of every dive business with Ted Harty.

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.

We hear a lot about freediving these days right? Well, it’s because freediving continues to have tremendous growth in our industry. But should you get on the bandwagon. The answer is yes. And Ive invited my good friend and colleague Ted Harty with Immersion Freediving onto this episode where we break down the reasons why freediving in your dive center or for you to become a freediving instructor is actually doable. In fact, you will be surprised how freediving as part of your course offerings can dramatically improve your dive business – whether in a dive center or as an independent instructor.

A little bit about Ted. Ted began his professional underwater career as a Scuba Instructor for PADI,NAUI, and SSI in 2005. In 2008 he took his first freediving class with Performance Freediving International. After that course on his days off he didn’t want to go scuba diving he wanted to go freediving, and realized his passion was freediving. In 2009 Ted took PFI’s first official Instructor program, and immediately started working for PFI helping Kirk Krack and Mandy Rae-Kruckshank teach courses all across the USA.

Ted went to his first freediving competition in 2009 as an overweight out of shape scuba instructor and progressed from 80-90ft freediver to 177ft in 3 weeks. After the experience he wondered what he could do if he actually started training. Since that time he broke a USA Freediving record in 2011, won 3 freediving competitions, was selected to be the co-captain of the USA Freediving team in 2012, and his deepest dive is 279ft. So as you can he really knows his stuff and he’s one of the best freediving instructors in the world.

And also Ted is putting on the first ever Freediving Summit – and you’ll hear about that today too.

Items In This Episode

  • Benefits of freediving
  • Taking freediving to the professional level
  • Ted Harty’s Freediving Summit

Episode Sponsor

If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

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Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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035 Becoming A Freediving Instructor Part 1 Training

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll hear from Kirk Krack about how to train to become a freediving instructor.

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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.

Hey everyone, I hope you’re all handling these coronavirus restrictions well. I am. Sure there are plenty of negatives with this, but I am very intentional about finding the awesomeness of this time. I’ve had more time with my family, I’ve had less work stress and traffic related stress. My creativity is up and I’m developing myself physically and professionally. I’ve told you all about my fitness journey with the FitOn App and Primal Blueprint diet. They are going great by the way.

But also all the many webinars and podcasts that can develop us professionally that I talked about last week. There’s really good stuff out there. In fact, I was just on The Diver Medic’s webinar with Chantelle Newman. My topic was on Physical Stressors in Diving – the most overlooked issue in our industry. Go to The Diver Medic website to see the replay if you’d like.

But today I want to continue to take you on my announced journey to become a freediving instructor. As I mentioned in previous episodes I have always had a passion for freediving. But over the years I watched as others had gone through advanced training and became freediving instructors. Well I applauded them and championed them, but I did not do it myself. So now is the time that I’m going to prepare to become a freediving instructor.

My Instructor Trainer – Kirk Krack

So to do this I reached out to, in my opinion, the top freediving instructor trainer in the world Kirk Krack the founder of Performance Freediving International. He co-founded PFI in 2000 and has done all kinds of scientific study of hypoxic effects on the human body. Kirk has trained seven athletes to 23 world records and dozens more to hundreds of national records. Chief among these is Kirk’s wife, Mandy-Rae Krack. Kirk trained and coached Mandy-Rae to seven world records and 13 Canadian records. Through its over 100 highly trained and rigorously qualified and insured instructors, PFI has trained and certified over 10,000 freedivers.

In 2016, Kirk was named the Diver’s Alert Network (DAN)/Rolex Diver of the Year. Krik also teaches freediving to Swift water rescue teams, Search and rescue teams, and Military special forces operators.

Kirk’s unique wealth of experience and talent for teaching have made his services highly sought after by those who want and need the absolute best. Among the individuals Kirk has trained are: Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson for their underwater roles in the blockbuster feature film Mission: Impossible–Rogue Nation. Margot Robbie and her stunt double for their underwater roles in Suicide Squad (in which Kirk also served as a credited on-screen stunt double for Batman). Endurance performer and illusionist David Blaine for his world record breath-hold attempts live on the Oprah Winfrey Show (he survived over 17 minutes on a single breath of oxygen-enriched air). Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn, and Woody Harrelson.

And Most recently, as you’ll hear, he’s worked with actors on the set of James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar 2,

Now he has his own freediving training company called the Performance Freediving Academy. So, you can see why he was my go to guy for becoming a freediving instructor.

Items In This Episode

  • The Diver Medic Webinars
  • Performance Freediving Academy
  • Ted Harty’s Immersion Freediving Online Courses

Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com and there you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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About Tec Clark

Tec Clark is a diving industry expert who has held very elite positions in the dive industry including Managing Director of the University of Florida’s Academic Diving Program and National Director of the YMCA Scuba Program. He holds over 40 professional certifications with over 15 diving agencies. Tec has received numerous honors for his instructional abilities and has co-edited several diving texts. He also appeared as a diving expert on A&E, The Learning Channel, and Outdoor Life Network. He was Captain of the US Freediving Team and is the founder of both Reef Ministries and ScubaGuru.com. Tec is the Associate Director for Aquatics and Scuba Diving at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Read More…

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