We share with you all our secrets about the equipment we use to record students in training and what settings you should use and what problems you should avoid.

We show you how to position yourself and students to get the best results when video recording divers in training and tips on what you should then debrief each day.

For Steve micro teaching is something every good instructor should do at every opportunity they get, no time should be wasted underwater, they micro manage each student to ensure mastery and good skill retention, while reducing mistakes.

This is alternative option and approach to the way we teach our day 3, it is still all about developing teamwork, but we scale it down a little and focus more on building wall decent and ascents first before taking on a more advanced dive plan like with our day 3, option 1 lesson shows.

Having problems with your students learning the back kick? Well this lesson is your answer. We go into all the mechanics of the kick and why the problems happen. Also, how you can combat them to teach this kick effectively to all your students.

This video should answer all the questions you have about setting up control lines. When you should use a single vertical line only, why to switch sides with your students, what distance you should set for horizontal line and how to teach your divers on the lines and when to take them away to best accelerate their learning curves and much more

We answer if you can and should skip learning with backmount configuration and just learn to sidemount dive right from the beginning. We talk about when is the best time to transition over from backmount and having less dives can be more beneficial in most cases

We discuss how to fix the reaching a rear dump issue many students have. How to best fit a students harness correctly for underwater use and how to do our 360° underwater review to check what you have set is correct or if it needs further adjustments

We discuss what equipment dive centres should have for sidemount divers and what you need if they don’t have it. We cover why we train certain courses in different locations around the world and answer once and for all if diving in cold water environments makes you a better diver or not.

We discuss handling Physiological, Physical and Environmental Stresses in your students. It is you the instructor who needs to be aware and why sometimes it is best to start your course with a rest day to guarantee your students success

We discuss and share our tips and tricks on how we handle students fears during our in-water courses, fears such as mask leaking, drysuit feet rising and low gas reserve stress

We discuss, the types of different students we see and share our tips on how we go about approaching and handling these students. Some people benefit from tough love approach and some do not. We also talk about why 1 on 1 instructor to student training is not really the best to use.

We guide you on how we breakdown barriers with new students who join your courses. We discuss the right and wrong way to connect with each student and how to best go about critiquing someone. Based on our years of teaching experience, we believe we now have a winning formula you can learn from and apply it to your students.

We discuss how taking Sidemount Essentials will open up many other doorways, no matter what level you are aiming for next. It even makes the levels you never thought possible! ..possible.

We discuss a way that you can stand out and make a difference over any instructor in your area. Our eat, sleep and breathe your training method is one of the main reasons why our Sidemount Essentials course is so successful.

We give you tips on how you can use our online training to save you and you’re students time and money on their training.

We discuss what we are telling all our students and anyone that contacts us, about how to find the right instructor. This video will help you to understand how to become one of those instructors.

This is something all divers and instructors need to hear. A certification card will not get you out of a problem underwater, the right training will! Find out everything we have to say on this.

No matter whether you are a student or instructor. Watch this video to find out why you still will want to come to us for some in-water training. I will give you a clue it is all about fast tracking!

Watch this video for two reasons, one to find yourself a good instructor and the other to see if you are one!

We answer if Sidemount Essentials will make you a solo diver and what certification cards we can provide you with.

We discuss how you can choose the right training site based on the course and your divers skill levels.

We explain exactly how we will be maximising your underwater and training time and because you have done your homework, how that will be saving you money.

Find out why it is not just the instructor, that can make the difference. You will see that certain equipment is not suitable and will just not work.

We talk about the different skills divers will have when they come to you and how you can best manage them, so every diver can achieve success.

We explain what a divers training curve is and how you can accelerate any divers ability to learn.

We discuss what online videos you actually need to watch, if you are coming to take any in-water training with us at sidemounting.com.

You’re time and money investment in you coming to us for training, is extremely valuable to both of us. This video shows you how we will not be wasting any of it.

We discuss what your maximum ratio for all courses with differing levels of students should be and most importantly why.

This is potentially one of the biggest additions that has made the Sidemount Essentials course successful, find out why and what you should be doing.

Probably one of the biggest problems in the dive industry, we show you how easily with our training methods you can avoid any of your future students having this problem.

We discuss why divers find it hard to stay perfectly still and how you as an instructor can fix this problem. We also show a technique for building a divers foot position awareness including dry land skills they can practice at home.

Every student learns differently from another, we should you how we adapt our training courses so everyone can fit in and achieve success.

Diver turn up with different skills set, some better and some worse than others, we give you are tricks to keep the whole day and course moving along no matter who turns up.

Recording students in training is something we have been doing longer than most! We discuss exactly how we do it and how you can do it without you or you’re students being distracted by the camera. Plus our tips on how you can best video debrief a student at the end of the day.

We give you our guide to what students should do after their course. Our tips will help you to not only keep your students coming back but also make sure they don’t develop any weak areas while moving forwards.

This is how we conduct our unique Sidemount Essentials half day experience program. We explain step by step how we do it and why many divers are unlikely to want to use backmount again after going through this experience.

If divers come to you already sidemount certified, we discuss our approach to handling them and how they fit into our Sidemount Essentials program.

We focus on building your divers skills while maintaining buoyancy and position. Control lines are key to fast tracking your divers learning curve, we cover how to best use them and step by step exactly which skills you should be focusing on.

Is all about developing teamwork and team skills. We show you how you get your students to plan a dive and develop their key skills along the way. This video is our longest one in this series and you will see why when you watch it.

This is alternative option and approach to the way we teach our day 3, it is still all about developing teamwork, but we scale it down a little and focus more on building wall decent and ascents first before taking on a more advanced dive plan like with our day 3, option 1 lesson shows.

We start with ascent and decent training, then cover all remaining skills your need to develop your divers. After watching this video and the ones before it, it will become obvious why our divers are some of the best out there!

We show you how to conduct our optional stage and deco cylinder handling day. Divers learn way more than just adding an extra cylinder, this video covers everything you need to know and step by step sequencing so you can deliver this day almost as good as we can.