Unified Team Diving (5thD-X) Essentials of Recreational Diving DVD

The primary component of the DVD is the presentation of 15 Essential recreational diving skills that provide a foundation for your diving career. As this is a DVD designed for recreational divers the skills are demonstrated in a single tank with a general overview of key points. (If you are seeking a more technically oriented DVD then you will want the Intro to Tech DVD ).

Essential Skills included:

Trim/Buoyancy
Modified Flutter Kick
Frog Kick
Backward Kick
Helicopter Turn
Basic 6 - Regulator & Mask Skills
Valve Drills
S-drills (Out Of Air)
Ascent Drills (including Safety Decompression Stops)
Some Bonus Skills:

Deploying an Surface Marker Buoy
Toxing Diver
Out of Air Ascents
**Click highlighted skills to view sample of skill video's.

While certainly not the only skills required for safe diving, these skills form the nucleus for the Essentials of Recreational Diving class, and the Fundamentals of Diving class which represent the core UTD/Hogarthian/DIR skills for the recreational diver.

Each skill is represented in an unique format. First, a complete and uninterrupted video shows the skill being performed. Next, the exact same video is replayed, with the addition of key pauses and subtitled instructions highlighting the essential elements of each skill. It's an excellent way to preview the skills prior to your class, your instructor will also reference these video's during your class and you can then review these skills following the course. The DVD is easy to use and each skill can be accessed independently through menus.

In addition, bonus tracks have been included to provide a sneak peek at some of the more advanced topics we cover in the more advanced DVD's in this series (Intro to Tech, Part 2). As these bonus skills involve a greater mastery of the core skills, they are included as a useful "signpost" to where you may want to take your personal and team skills.

Reviewing the presentation prior to attending the class will help the student begin to solidify the concepts ahead of time, allowing the formulation of educated questions. After the course, having the presentation means you can always revisit the lectures and continue to learn as your understanding grows. Meanwhile, printing the workbook provides an easy way to take notes during the course and helps personalize the information to increase retention.

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Spotlight Reviews
Instuctional DVD (2007-04-03)
Customer Review : 3
This dvd is excellent if used for what it is intended, Support material for a DIR class. Although it demonstrates amazing dive technique and gives a good idea of valuable skils, the only way it would be effective is whith direction from an instructor and the other material that belongs with it.
If you are looking at getting this DVD here and are not taking a DIR course then look at getting either of the next two DVDs from 5thD-X.
For example Intro to technical diving has all the same skills plus a few more and actually breaks them down a little better.
Good dvd in context.

Excellent, excellent video series (2006-11-03)
Customer Review : 5
Remember all the skills you were taught in your Beginning Open Water class? Well, forget them. THIS is the way that you should be diving. While the large agencies are content to turn out McDivers, once you're ready to progress to a level where diving becomes relatively effortless and truly fun ... you've come to the right place. Thanks, Andrew!