Put him in a body bag! Yeah!
Posts by greekdiver
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You cut down 3 sides of the spear. Under, left and right of flopper. Then you have to use a low profile flopper like devoto or salvi. They are flat and square.
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I find it hard to pack through a snorkel. I can pack easily without it but i have to be on my back to be effective.
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were the big ones too fast for you?
They were almost as fast as the yellowtail snapper! <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
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Stop giving away all the super secret secrets!
I sniffed the silicone out of my mask on this dive. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Everyone who dives deep knows it. It's not a secret. Don't expect to get MUCH deeper with that technique though. 90ft is a serious jump from 70ft. It is a 40ft difference, 20ft down and 20ft back up, with a much less margin for error. If i could pack through my snorkel, i sure as hell would be doing that too.
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nice fish! what, no mangroves?
We don't shoot those poor helpless fish <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
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Didn't Dan install that flopper? I'd ask him for a Cubera refund! <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">
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But i am not disagreeing with you. I think the class is worth it.
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"3)Static. You really have to hyperventilate a lot to get a good time since you build up so much CO2."
No not really, 5 purge breaths followed by 2 to 4 relaxed breathing is not hyperventilating, you have simply done a gas exchange and then returned to a normal breathing pattern before holding. If someone is doing 10 real fast inhales and exhales with pronounced exhales then that is hyperventilating and yes you can get some long times but very dangerous for any real diving of course. I believe it is more in the concentration or meditation of the holder.
You inhale faster than normal for 1 min before the hold. I took the pfi class last year. If you want to call it something else than hyperventilate, thats ok too.
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thinner shaft than 9/32?
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Would you please elaborate about your experience with the railguns , Wong and the Riffes? And what are you shooitng now.
I feel like the railguns are too heavy in the water. They shoot too slow for my taste. The wong kicked like a mule and the shot seemed slow too. Maybe because of the super long shaft? I dont want to see the shaft when i fire my gun. I don't like skinny handles either. I feel like you can absorb more recoil with a wider handle. I like a really light gun in the water when i'm doing aspetto.
They all shot straight and kill fish. Its just my personal preference.
I shoot a wooden gun 110cm with 7.5mm 130cm shaft and twin 16mm bands stretched to 275%. The shaft flys.
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I think also someone has to physically show you and correct you on diving techniques for learning. You can't really read about it and go out and do it well. I guess you can, but results are much better when a pro is showing what to do. That's why the class is good too.
Btw, Davie likes carbon
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Finning technique. Davie is a perfect example. He used to have bad finning. Now, he fins really smooth and efficiently. He is diving deeper than I've ever seen him. He is getting to the bottom with less effort.
Recovery Breathing
How to grab someone when they are passing out. There is a certain correct procedure you do to grab someone quickly.
Keeping your body, arms, head, speargun, ect. tucked and streamline until target depth.
Make sure you suck the air in the mask on ascent.
I have take both classes and the advance class is really not necessary for what we do. If you have the cash, take it for fun.
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If i'm blacking out, i prefer the person saving me to have taken the class.
I was already a deep diver before i took the class, and I still learned useful diving techniques.
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I will tell you why people do so well in PFI and FIT classes for the first time.
1) You are there to push your limits. You will obviously do better than you ever have especially with trained people there to protect you.
2) You are going down a straight rope to targeted depth. This is huge because when we spearfish or freedive without a rope, we swim down to 60ft at an angle. So its probably 70-75ft in actual distance or maybe more.
3)Static. You really have to hyperventilate a lot to get a good time since you build up so much CO2.
You really aren't going to hold your breath longer after this class. They basically teach you techniques to get deeper mainly by being streamlined and not by a 4 day magic breath hold.
Is the class worth it? Yes. They teach safety techniques and diving techniques that will for sure improve your diving over time. But don't expect hitting 100ft in the class and then going out there and expecting to spear in 100ft or even 80ft.
Time in the water and especially deep diving will improve your breathhold.
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static is a waste of time. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
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No, Greek's already moved to a band gun
I know some hardcore Cuban divers that stuck to their pneumatics for a long time, but even they switched.Ive tried railguns, wong, and shot a riffe. I didn't like it.
What i have now is exactly what i like.
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I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I would like to contribute what I can.
1.From past experience a pencil point shaped tip does not CUT through the fish as a tricut tip does, therefore there is less risk of the shaft pulling out of a fish when using a pencil pointed shaft.
2. As Dan has said, firing a full powered shaft through a reef fish into the reef is hard on shaft tips. My solution to THAT problem is to depower my gun by taking 1 band off to shoot a hog at 12". I swim around with both bands on cocked incase a mac / cuda swims by. The hog will almost always give me time to depower, where you have 2-3 seconds to line up and shoot a mac.
3. Another factor effecting shaft performance is the Wetted Surface of the shaft. This is a HYDROdynamic only factor, not shared with arrows or other AEROdynamic objects.others--I wish I was smart enough to understand the formulas and equasions. Thank you
All I know is that when I release the shaft on my RA, the muzzle ends up higher then BEFORE I released the shaft.seaweed---thanks for this thread:)
I rarely shoot into the reef. I just wait till i have a clean shot when i land on the bottom. The only time I am shooting down into the reef is at a large grouper or snapper.
Shaft will not pull out regardless of what tip you have, unless your flopper is not properly tuned.
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I shoot my RA tricut into all sorts of rocks and have never had an issue with it...maybe different brands dull differently?
RA metal is much harder than hardened stainless steel shafts.
And who cares about enclosed tracks! <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
