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UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #87 – Becoming a Thinking Diver Part 2a
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - May 04, 2024 07:00 - 1 hourIn our last episode about the "Thinking Diver" we talked about creating your team, or village. In this episode Jeff and Ben start to look at the practical elements of being a thinking diver – gear, gas, team, and much more. Be a thinker. Listen in. If you have any questions or comments, please ...
Unified Team Diving Podcast #86 – Jeff's Carcast – Why I Am Still So Stoked About UTD
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - April 15, 2024 16:00 - 35 minutesA non-car carcast. This time I woke up ready to talk about why Unified Team Diving is so important to me but I did not have any place I needed to drive, so I recorded a non-car carcast. Why do we keep doing what we do? How do I grow as a coach and instructor as you grow as a diver or instructor?...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #85 – It Takes a Village – The Thinking Diver Part 1
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - March 20, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutesLearning and advancing at anything does not need to be something you do alone. Really, it takes a village. You are at the center, then your instructor or coach, but then all the other people and organizations and facilities and friends and family that guide you to becoming the most successful di...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #84 – Jeff's Carcast – We Are Not for Everyone
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - March 04, 2024 15:00 - 41 minutesIn any business one of the most important things is knowing who your clients are. And equally important is to know who your clients are not. In this carcast, I take an honest look at who we are for and who we are not for. It's a complex discussion about a very simple concept. Are we for you? L...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #83 – Jeff's Carcast on Style vs. Success
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - February 14, 2024 01:00 - 24 minutesIs it success that's the most important thing in scuba diving? Or style? This is a discussion – actually a monologue I recorded in my car – on the issue of style vs. success or, in scuba diving, style vs. certification. Drawn from a phrase common in big wall rock climbing, style vs. success refe...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #82 – Are You Solo Diving as an Instructor?
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - February 09, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourWe are Unified TEAM Diving not, as we sometimes like to say, Unified 'Go-Run-Off-By-Yourself Diving.' But what about when you are instructing students? Are they part of your team? Can they help you? What are everyone's expectations when instructing? In this episode Jeff and Ben unpack this simp...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #81 – Jeff's Carcast on Managing the Frustration of Setbacks
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - January 19, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutesSetback happen. This is true for everything we are learning, particularly when moving to a higher level in any field. In scuba training, in Unified Team Diving, we have a thing called the "ebay dive." This is when you come out of the water after such a frustrating dive that you want to put all y...
UTD Podcast #80 – Jeff's Carcast on Fulfilling Unfulfilled Dreams
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - January 08, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutesIn the late 70's or early 80's I had an opportunity to take on something that looked really cool to me but my situation at the time blocked it. I've kept that dream alive until this past weekend when I fulfilled an unfulfilled dream. What are your unfulfilled dreams? What are you missed opportun...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #79 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving - Live at DEMA 2023
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - November 19, 2023 15:00 - 50 minutesWe are live at the DEMA show in New Orleans taking questions from the audience. Listen to Jeff and Ben answer all sorts of random questions and, finally, almost get completely stumped. Contact us with your obscure questions and plan on seeing us at DEMA 2024 in Las Vegas where we will do anothe...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #78 – Introducing UTD's new Director of Development Jay Gardner
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - October 27, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutesWelcome to Jay Gardner, UTD's new Director of Development! Jay joins Jeff and Ben as the third member of UTD's management team, bring a lifetime of experience with companies both large and small. Jay started his journey in UTD as a coaching client, then an instructor candidate, then an instruct...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #77 – Jeff Carcast on Quitting Part 2 – When It's Okay to Quit
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - October 26, 2023 18:00 - 14 minutesThis is a short addendum to my previous carcast on quitting. In this quick episode I add a little info, this time about when it's okay to quit. There is a time and place for everything and sometimes the best thing is to "know when to fold 'em." Thoughts and ideas? Contact us here: https://utdsc...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #76 – Jeff's Carcast on Quitting
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - October 14, 2023 22:00 - 25 minutes"Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run." Great words to live by. In this carcast, actually recorded as a "hikecast" during this year's solar eclipse, Jeff looks at some of the mental and physical elements of quitting – quitting a class, quitting ...
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast #75 – Everything Rebreathers Part 1
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - October 06, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourLet's breathe without bubbles. In this episode, the first or two or three, Jeff and Ben look at all things rebreathers. In this first part: the what, why, how and the joys of diving rebreathers. In future episodes we will look at the traps of diving rebreathers, the training progression, and an...
UTD Podcast #74 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving Vol. 15 – The Tech Student Episode
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - September 11, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourA live episode with slightly sketchy audio, although it was a technical marvel. Ben and three of his tech students in Norway, Jeff via cell phone from San Diego. In this episode we take live questions from the students who just completed their tech training. Ratio Deco adjustments, diving with n...
UTD Podcast #73 – Jeff's "Car-cast" on Compliance and Consistency
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - August 25, 2023 17:00 - 29 minutesConsistency and compliance. Or is it compliance and consistency? Either way, these are the two hallmarks of a great client relationship with their coach and coaching program. In this carcast, Jeff takes a look at how consistency and compliance inform the best possible training for scuba divers....
UTD Podcast #73 – Jeff's Carcast on Compliance and Consistency
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - August 25, 2023 17:00 - 29 minutesConsistency and compliance. Or is it compliance and consistency? Either way, these are the two hallmarks of a great client relationship with their coach and coaching program. In this carcast, Jeff takes a look at how consistency and compliance inform the best possible training for scuba divers....
UTD Podcast #72 – Jeff and Ben on the August 2023 San Diego Classes
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - August 10, 2023 18:00 - 12 minutesFollowing two weeks of UTD classes in San Diego, and a few minutes before Ben heads back to the airport to return to Denmark, we chat about how this series of classes went for both the instructors and the students.
UTD Podcast #71 – Lisa Huynh on Coaching and Essentials
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - August 03, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode Jeff sits with UTD Scuba Coaching client Lisa Huynh the day after she completed UTD Essentials of Rec. Lisa explores how she got her start with coaching, the benefits of integrating UTD's in-water training with the coaching program, her experiences with her prior training, and mu...
UTD Podcast #70 – Getting Started with Rebreathers
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - May 16, 2023 17:00 - 1 hourThe rebreather. Is it a wildly complex thing that rivals something that could fly to the moon? Or is it simply a bag you breathe into that scrubs out the CO2 and allows for longer bottom times? Or something in the middle? In this episode Jeff and Ben look at the simple yet complex story of rebr...
UTD Podcast #69 – Jeff's Carcast on How to Get Really, Really Good at Something
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - May 05, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutesYour "Path to Mastery" is a buzzword (or buzz-phrase) that's been around forever but, what does it really mean and how can you take your path to becoming great at one thing and apply it to becoming great at something else (like scuba)? In this carcast, recorded on an endless, rainy drive from S...
UTD Podcast #68 – UTD's ISO Certification
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - April 17, 2023 17:00 - 24 minutesIn April this year UTD went through an audit with EUF, the European Underwater Federation and received certification that the UTD training systems are in compliance with ISO standards. ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, creates standards for many industries, including scuba...
UTD Podcast #67 ESPAÑOL – Entrevista a los candidatos a Instructores en el tercer día de IDC
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - April 15, 2023 17:00 - 18 minutesEstamos en el tercer día del curso de desarrollo de instructores de UTD. En este podcast cortito realizamos una pequeña entrevista a los candidatos a instructores para saber cuáles son sus percepciones del curso hasta el momento. Para saber cómo hacerse instructor UTD, pinchar aquí.
UTD Podcast #66 – Spain IDC – The English-Speaking Candidates
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - April 15, 2023 17:00 - 21 minutesJust a few minutes after the UTD Instructor Development Course ended at the Rivemar Dive Center in La Azohia, Spain, Jeff and Ben sat down with the four English-speaking instructor candidates to get their take on the week...how it went, their expectations, and much more. For information on beco...
UTD Podcast #65 – Carcast with Jeff, Ben, and Alan enroute to an IDC in the South of Spain
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - April 13, 2023 03:00 - 31 minutesWe did it again, another carcast. This one we recorded on our road trip from Madrid, where Alan and I just picked up Ben at the airport, on our way to the Rivemar Dive Center in La Azohia, our host for this instructor development course. In this episode we discuss the upcoming class, the journey...
UTD Podcast #64 – The Most Obscure Questions in Scuba Diving Vol. 14 – The Random Episode
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - April 08, 2023 19:00 - 1 hourThis is The Random Episode – we've collected questions from the past few weeks and here a some of the obscure and random things we covered in this episode: Why are there various low pressure inflator connectors? Why is our compass NOT on a boot with the SPG? Can we do a "swimming" deco stop, o...
UTD Podcast #63 – Jeff is a Guest on The Big Scuba Podcast - Back to Basics
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - March 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourThe Big Scuba Podcast, a show based in the UK and hosted by my new friends Ian and Gemma, explores all things scuba. They got interested in the UTD Scuba Coaching Program, so we started talking about that, but quickly moved to UTD's philosophy, teaching ethos, and history. For me, it was back t...
UTD Podcast #62 – The ADR - Annual Dive Review
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - February 15, 2023 20:00 - 38 minutesRecurrent training is a thing in many, many industries. Flying is where recurrent training is the most obvious – pilots are required to complete various scheduled trainings to keep their certificates current and diving should be no different. Since our inception, UTD has always had a structured...
UTD Podcast #61 – Jeff's "Car-cast" on Choosing a Coach
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - February 05, 2023 01:00 - 24 minutesTrying something new here...a "car-pod," or "pod-car," or "car podcast," or something. In any case, I was in traffic for about two hours and had some time to think about, then record, a short podcast on choosing a coach, staying with a coach, leaving a coach, and much more. But most importantly,...
UTD Podcast Español #60 – Castilla Cave Tour
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - January 11, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutesEn enero de 2023 hemos completado el Castilla Cave Tour. En este viaje hemos visitado algunas de las cuevas más icónicas del centro de España. Empezamos en el Pozo Azul que es actualmente la cueva con mayor desarrollo explorado en Europa con +13km de longitud. Fuente Azul es una de las cuevas má...
UTD Podcast #59 – The Secret to Teaching Human Factors in Scuba Diving
UTD Scuba Diving Podcast - December 15, 2022 21:00 - 22 minutesIn 2022 I was invited to speak at the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society's scientific meeting. This was in the ORCA project: Operational Resilience and Cognitive Awareness, quite a mouthful, but basically it was a meeting about human factors in scuba diving. In UTD we have been teaching human ...
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