Technical Sidemount video with Steve Martin Gozo 2014

Sidemount training with Steve Martin, Gozo 2014.
Thanks: Steve Martin! www.sidemounting.com
Tom Steiner & Audrey Cudel www.gozotechnicaldiving.com
Media Composer Editing: Fredrik Liljeblad
GoPro Footage: Steve Martin
Music:
Maze - Warmth Inside
Greendjohn - The Journey Home
Greendjohn - Apotheosis
Anitek - Shitty Day
Students:
Andreas Westin
Fabian Aguirre
Fredrik Liljeblad

[@jamiedorre4695]

As a starting diver, this stuff is amazing to see!!

[@Yggdrasil42]

Thanks Fredrik, your video was what inspired me to look into sidemounting and Steve Martin's training. I just returned from a week in Gozo by Steve Martin, Audrey Cudel and Vas Proud. Definitely worth it. Been watching the video material to prepare for it. The Gozo course was challenging but I'm definitely hooked on sidemounting now. Their focus on fixing bad habits and teaching new propulsion techniques, better buoyancy and trim, proper dive planning, etc. have definitely made me a better diver. I loved it.

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

That's awesome 😀👌

[@squalonero68]

Grazie Steve.

[@magnumpunch]

I will start sidemount training next week. I'm getting pumped.

[@anaispasoiu1538]

This is awesome!! And I like the training you did especially towards the end 👍

[@cyprescrow]

Masters of buoyancy. Sure ain't easy. Loads of training. Great video.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Both your videos are awesome. I started looking for a sidemount course and found this video. Then I watched your cave dive training. That's looks like it was amazing. Now I'm excitedly looking at Steve Martin's site. He's not cheap but appears to be a good teacher and I much prefer that over some cheap course in Thailand.

[@rixogtr]

you should get acces to his vids at his page....His videos convinced me to go into Sidemount config instead of wing/backmount

[@Yggdrasil42]

I just returned from a week of training in Gozo by Steve Martin, Audrey Cudel and Vas Proud. Definitely worth it. Been watching the video material to prepare for it. The Gozo course was challenging but I'm definitely hooked on sidemounting now. Their focus on fixing bad habits and teaching new propulsion techniques, better buoyancy and trim, proper dive planning, etc. have definitely made me a better diver.

[@BarDownBoys]

whats with the bromance at 11 minutes, the sharing of the regulators?

[@riccmy3354]

I wanted to ask if you also put the 90 ° bend in the tube to recognize the left cylinder, so you understand which regulator you are using. I put it in both regulators because it is more comfortable.

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

That's actually one of the identifiers and it's more comfy + the neck bungee on left also. Breakaway on the right.

[@lmetzdorf10]

Great dives!! very cool!

[@user-lr4nn5kj6c]

You are the Hero

[@TheAshantidutch]

Hi Steve, what thickness hood are you are wearing. thanks

[@jackmarshall3214]

Ashanti Dutch This dude is not steve. Check out steve’s video on the sidemount scuba youtube channel.

[@saloom71]

Good luck and safe diving

[@TheMikebo]

Those are some pretty hefty dive times, what's in the cylinders - trimix?

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

Just air actually. I remember getting a bit unfocused during the deeper dives. 🥴 Trimix would have helped, but I didn't have the certification for that then.

[@b.h.8421]

11:16 ..... Bruh.... is this really part of the tech sidemount training? 🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@darkmxhishot7475]

You need some new vids...

[@danielorneling2831]

Videon gör verkligen skäl för sitt namn. Det var 20 väl spenderade minuter :)

[@saloom71]

hello nice vid :) ,,, are you guys using too much air in your BC ,, or its the Xdeep System ?

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

We might have had a little bit too much weight. But not by much. When doing a deco dive you don't want to be a little bit too light, as that could be very dangerous. So is being too heavy.

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

+sulaiman al When the cylinders are full, you need a bit more air in the BC as they are a bit heavier.

[@rixogtr]

so its with steel tanks its better to start with few weights over normal for compensate weight at the end of dive with empty cylinder ?

[@Yggdrasil42]

Not really, steel tanks stay negative even when nearly empty. Alu tanks become slightly positively buoyant so you need a bit more weight to compensate.

[@pipi00486art]

cool

[@a-a-ronbalakay7464]

why are you diving with Octos as primary second stages?

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

+Aaron Dunne It's a bit different with sidemount. You use two completely separated cylinders with one first stage and one second stage +spg on each. You switch between the two when there is more than 20 bars difference. With that procedure you keep the usage roughly the same on both. Most have a 2m hose on the right cylinder in case someone else would need air quickly. So that would sort of be the equivalent of the octo. Thanks to the redundancy it's not likely that you would end up in an emergency in the same way as if you had only one cylinder. If one would fail somehow, you just switch to the other, and do a controlled surface safely.

[@despeboy74]

It is just that the old apeks sidemount kit design is with the yellow line, they are not octopus. They changed it since then.

[@rixogtr]

Octopus is mostly used in recreational "regular" backmount single cylinder configuration, isnt it ?

[@ftothel794]

what dive operation did you guys use?

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

We did TDI training with Steve Martin at Gozo technical Diving.

[@Brazileirada]

why does Steve have fins on his chest? :)

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

Brazileirada Late reply, but he had two pairs with him for testing fin buoyancy, and how the balance changes. ;-)

[@t-ime]

what is one, scissors, zero?

[@t-ime]

nvm i think it's 120 bar

[@markusknorr6497]

It is 170 bar, two fingers up means 2, two fingers sideways is 7

[@Freakschwimmer]

at 12:14 did this guy actually have a pic of a ladys' butt on his DiveComputer? :D :D

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

Yeah 😁 you can set a custom boot screen on the xdeep/genz black.. 😉

[@Freakschwimmer]

That's awesome :D

[@rixogtr]

I guess he have full 50gb gallery of pics like this for long boring deco stops :D

[@sinoperture]

American tourists? Go to another country and still order hamburger and hot dogs?

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

LOL, That was the one and only time we went to that burger place. I wanted to order something small and I thought maybe a hotdog, and I got the largest hotdog I have ever seen in my life, that's why I added it to the video. :)

[@sinoperture]

@@FredrikLiljeblad OK forgiven this one time! :-)

[@ParkourEh]

Haha Do people actually get this excited over a different way to configure your cylinders? I'd get it if it was "Epic technical diving video" or something but just sidemount? C'mon, dude you're just diving! It's like "Epic shoulder-bag video" but the activity is transiting to college.

[@FredrikLiljeblad]

+ParkourEh lol, nah. For me at that time in my diving development that trip was an epic change, going from single cyl backmount, doing the sidemount training, advanced nitrix and deco procedures, and touching base on the cave training (That I did a couple of months later. There's a video of that too). If I wouldn't have done the sidemount I would never have done the cave later on, and the caves I'm doing now is sometimes sidemount only. So to answer your question, for me this was an Epic moment, and I did a video of it, and it changed everything for me, and it wasn't just like another "shoulder bag". If you have a cooler video please share the video, I would love to watch it.

[@ParkourEh]

Fair enough, especially given the context! I just thought the title was kinda funny.

[@rixogtr]

I dont think they are "just diving". They learning new stuff, everyone would be happy if learned something new. Imagine you just learned manual wheelie on bike, you would have smile all over your face, wouldnt you ? And for others it can by "just cycling"