What event made you head toward/away from DIR?

[WIdiver_Paul]

You're right, you can't ignore the technical aspects of DIR. But it needn't be scary. If it wan't for the we wouldn't have smoke detectors, cordless drills, and water filters. But you don't have to be an astronaut to use that stuff, we just made it all part of our normal lives. Useful skills learned in DIR can make most any diver a better diver without being a technical diver. It's funny you pointed out the thread in TDS where a bunch of GUE trained east coast snobs showed their true colors like a bunch of hyenas biting the ass of a tiger cub. Stuff like that is enough to turn anyone away from DIR, TDS, GUE or whomever those people align themselves with. It's that whole "i'm better than you" thing is where DIR has it's greatest weakness. A stroke is only a stoke because 1.) they don't know any better and haven't been shown a better way, and 2.) the person labeling them a stroke is too ignorant and conceited to swallow their vanity and show them how it can be done better and be made fun as well.