Bad Skills Disco

Today was my first day of the Assistant Instructor part of my PADI dive instructor curriculum. In the pool today, I did another “skill circuit” demonstration of 20 dive skills. I did much better than the last time I did the demonstration except for one skill - the fin pivot.

I was quite disappointed in my performance of the skill - fin pivot. Maybe it’s because of my new wetsuit, my weights, my nervousness. I found it hard to pivot underwater on my fins because my legs kept on wanting to float up. I was so disappointed in my performance, when everyone left, I stayed in the pool until I could get it right. I discovered that if I placed my weights lower on my body it was a lot easier to do.

I decided to get a drink in the evening at the Point bar to make my day a little better. At the bar, I met a staff instructor at Asia Divers, Josh, and his girlfriend Charity. After a few drinks, he invited me to go with him to downtown Sabang and to check out some disco bars.

All the disco bars in Sabang are girly bars where girls dance around in very little clothing and solicit “going out” with you for 2,000 pesos ($50 USD). There’s no cover charge, drinks are decently priced unless you buy a girl a drink, and there’s sometimes good music. If anything, there’s good eye candy and sometimes good company. We ended up going to 4 discos, but some of them only had a couple customers in it. Generally it was a slow night and we all headed home fairly early.

It was good though to get out and get my mind off all the studying and worrying about things.


- jason