Would like to see some feedback on this...
I just wanted to make a suggestion that I think would be easy to do and most importantly:
1) Assist to save lives.
2) Increase the general awareness of the important factors of freediving.
3) Provide a starting place for the beginner and/or towards the theory beginner
(some have practical diving experience but are unaware of important information).
4) Maintain the ability of the communal input towards the topics.
5) Increase the efficiency to research information on the general topics.
It strikes me that for the more advanced searching and scanning the forum is good enough since there is not probably an immediate need for information, however the beginner can obviously find the forum a little overwhelming to make heads or tails of the plethora of information and sometimes contradicting ideas.
I think it is important to have a starting point for beginners which could also offload repeat questions and redundant threads in the other forums. However for a beginner I think it should be a little more organized to guide them towards a confident approach to freediving. That is have all the standard topics available in a simple series.
But there is still such an essential value to the multitude of ideas, and view points that can immediately give so much experience to another that I think the forum idea can be massaged to have organization and focused discussion while being dynamic and open.
Suggestion:
1.
Create a forum dedicated to the key topcis of freediving. Within the forum there would be a series of threads all dedicated to a single topic. For example start with some general threads, Safety, Forms of freediving, Gear, Environmental considerations, Training, ... etc.
Within these threads posts could refer to further threads regarding specifics. So in the Safety thread there may be a post saying "...a major safety concern for freedivers is Shallow Water Blackout, continued discussion in thread 'Shallow Water Blackout'. Another safety post may say "... a safety concern is Hypothermia, continued discussion in thread "Hypothermia".
And on and on for the general threads.
The discussions of the details could then continue in threads with the related names.
2.
Or instead maybe just make some sub-forums of "freediving starting point" such as safety, training, techniques, etc...
And then even these either having subforums for shallow water blackout, hypothermia, buddy system, etc... or just starting all the threads on each of the standard topics that need to be easily available.
I just wanted to make a suggestion that I think would be easy to do and most importantly:
1) Assist to save lives.
2) Increase the general awareness of the important factors of freediving.
3) Provide a starting place for the beginner and/or towards the theory beginner
(some have practical diving experience but are unaware of important information).
4) Maintain the ability of the communal input towards the topics.
5) Increase the efficiency to research information on the general topics.
It strikes me that for the more advanced searching and scanning the forum is good enough since there is not probably an immediate need for information, however the beginner can obviously find the forum a little overwhelming to make heads or tails of the plethora of information and sometimes contradicting ideas.
I think it is important to have a starting point for beginners which could also offload repeat questions and redundant threads in the other forums. However for a beginner I think it should be a little more organized to guide them towards a confident approach to freediving. That is have all the standard topics available in a simple series.
But there is still such an essential value to the multitude of ideas, and view points that can immediately give so much experience to another that I think the forum idea can be massaged to have organization and focused discussion while being dynamic and open.
Suggestion:
1.
Create a forum dedicated to the key topcis of freediving. Within the forum there would be a series of threads all dedicated to a single topic. For example start with some general threads, Safety, Forms of freediving, Gear, Environmental considerations, Training, ... etc.
Within these threads posts could refer to further threads regarding specifics. So in the Safety thread there may be a post saying "...a major safety concern for freedivers is Shallow Water Blackout, continued discussion in thread 'Shallow Water Blackout'. Another safety post may say "... a safety concern is Hypothermia, continued discussion in thread "Hypothermia".
And on and on for the general threads.
The discussions of the details could then continue in threads with the related names.
2.
Or instead maybe just make some sub-forums of "freediving starting point" such as safety, training, techniques, etc...
And then even these either having subforums for shallow water blackout, hypothermia, buddy system, etc... or just starting all the threads on each of the standard topics that need to be easily available.