What event made you head toward/away from DIR?

[scubert]

sounds like the I-DIR (or internet dir, my favorite new phrase) divers to me ;D
How else would GUE film their cave explorations, and as matt pointed out, all the stuff in their books?  And don't they film the FUNdies course for later review by the new students? (hey kids! show us your FUNdies!! )  :o  It'd be a bit odd if they were teaching the fundamentals of DIR and violating one of it's rules at the same time.

I don't really know how you could be DIR and freedive, they don't really cover the same ground, but I'm not a DIR expert either, so maybe there are some rules for it.  I believe that I've heard JJ mention freediving as a great training for focus and breath management.