How Dive Master Training is like Spider Sex
Channel: Discovery Divers Tokyo
Date: 2017-02-01

How Dive Master Training is Like Spider Sex

The second installment in the leadership series. 

I love training dive leaders and favor mentor style training. This naturally entails a close relationship between candidate and mentor, so it is helpful to have a close starting point in terms of goals and philosophy of the training. 

Once the training starts, it sometimes becomes apparent that the match is not a good one...

To be covered:
0:07 Introduction
0:50 DM training types. A tale of two philosophies. 
     a. 2-4 week intensive course
     b. mentoring – I prefer

1:30 Mentoring program characteristics and why I prefer
     a. Honestly, how can a 2/3 week of skills check boxes prepare someone to be a dive leader…
     b. My opinion, cannot be a good dive leader until you’ve seen a lot of sh#t hit a lot of fans…just not possible in 2/3 weeks…

2:57 Mentoring requires a lot of personal contact and sharing of coming goals/philosophies. Not always a good match. 

3:11 Choose well…but honestly, if you’re entering into a mentoring DM program, I’d suspect you already know your mentor well…but not always. 

3:45 Spider sex. DM is where we often have a parting of ways with advanced divers. We begin the spider dance and instead of something really good happening, something really bad starts to happen and one or both of us realize rather soon, that this is not a good fit. 

5:20 Choose your mentor well. 
     a. Make sure you have shared values/goals when it comes to scuba
     b. State expectations clearly (on both sides) before the onset of training.

5:52 Conclusion/Summary

Have a great DM program and enjoy!

Safe diving!

Jim

Big Dog, DDT
DiscoveryDiversTokyo.com

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