| I approached this from "the other side". In September I took aan AOW + EANx course in the Philippines. I had a great instructor. She had taken a triox course a couple of months earlier herself, in the dive center sporting the only Philippine DIR-instructor. Quite a few people used wings and long hoses there.
Whenever I had questions about things which fell outside the course, she would incorporate it in the next lesson (this meant I learned to work "the wheel" while doing excercises in my EANx course). When I asked difficult questions ("It says in this padi-book that I should descend and ascend along a line in vertical position, I have heard that horizontal position is better. Why does it say vertical here?") she would answer them the best she could ("I know that's wat 'techies' say, and yes it is true. PADI reasons that vertical position keeps you better orientated. If you want to stay horizontal, that's no problem.")
She was just great, and I don't regret the courses for one second! |