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My name is MarceL Van Den Berg,
and I'm a Padi Platinum Course Director.
Today we want to give you one of the greatest tips,
how to become a more successful diving instructor
is by having a little bit, or actually better,
a lot of patience when it comes to teaching your students.
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and lets learn why having patience is so important
to become a more successful diving instructor.
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All right, we are almost to the end of our six attributes
to have to become a more successful diving instructor.
And this one is patience, number five.
Now patience is very relative,
that we just talked about caring
because I'm going to tell you right now
and if you've already an experienced diving instructor
you already know of course,
but you need patience to be a good diving instructor.
And I think patience is important for any teacher,
but almost even more for a diving instructor,
again, a lot of our students, they are scared.
A lot of them they don't actually want
to do this diving thing.
You know, they say, it's because their boyfriend
or girlfriend wants to do it.
You know that other partner that doesn't want to do it,
and they're sort of like,
oh I don't want to be alone on the beach.
So let's just stick around for the next couple of days
for this diving thing.
But with that kind of attitude,
that the students that have wrong,
they are not willing to learn.
And for that reason they can sometimes take
lots of energy, in a very polite way of saying from you.
So you have the people with bad attitudes,
that are making your life difficult during teaching.
You have people that are very nervous
and they keep wanting to quit.
You need to have patience, to keep staying nice
and to keep caring and to keep trying to get them
into the course and continue the course.
Then you have people that are just not so good
in motor skills.
They're not so good in the skill itself.
So, you know, they can be fantastic students,
super good attitudes, they are very knowledgeable
very easy on the classroom stuff and exams
but then, you know, their skills are not so good.
And yeah.
Then it takes time and everything takes time.
You know, it depends on where you teach
in the world as well.
We don't always have the luxury of, you know,
doing a three-month open water diver course.
So we sort of, kind of need to get
that swimming pools session down within, you know,
a certain amount of time,
and that can give some stress sometimes to us as well.
And that again, loses patience.
And then who's going to cause more time on that session
is a student that can do a skill, you know,
in a brief the water getting in the nose,
they didn't go to do surfing,
you have to calm them down,
you have to sort of give them tips
and then just try it again.
And whoops they do it again and again and again
and there you go, you have a nice group to teach, you know,
you have six students and all five are superstars
and there's one person, you know, keeps having an issue.
And that causes us a lot of time.
And now your pressure's building up again, you know,
will I be able to be finished on time,
but also, will the other students not be bore down there
because they have to wait or things like that.
So you really need a lot of patience
to sort of deal with all of these situations.
And another thing as well, that I've seen
is it's people that have something that happened
in their private life.
So in the end, you know, we're not diving instructor 24/7,
you know, we do have private lives
where, you know, you might have a bad day
because you have an issue with your friends
or your boring girlfriend,
or you know, you just hear some bad news from your family
or, you know, financial issue
or not an insurance fee came along that you didn't expect.
We've seen this, and then you go to work
as a diving instructor,
and you're so busy with this stress, your personal stress,
that when the student does something wrong,
that normally, it's just normally part of the job
that suddenly you lose that patience
much more sooner than others, right?
So it's really important to have that patience at all times.
And I can tell you, it's not always easy.
I will admit that to you as well.
Doesn't matter how nice you are,
and how much you care and whatever,
we all have a bad day sometimes.
And I think, that's what I like about a regulator, you know,
the second stage mouthpiece,
you can kind of bite off it, which is kind of cool.
So sometimes on the water,
when something happens that's a bit frustrating,
you're going to get a argggh,
and then two seconds later, your real, not fake,
your real caring, big smile comes back on.
And that hand goes on the shoulder
whenever it needs to with the students
and you solve the problem and you move on.
So that's another cool tip.
That's a freebie here.
You can bite your regulator if you lose your patience
but remember guys and girls, only for a few seconds,
because a fantastic diving instructor,
never ever ever loses their patience
for more than one or two seconds
and whatever happens you never, ever, ever show that
to your students.
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I know there's a lot of information,
but if you want to become a diving instructor yourself,
so you're watching this thinking,
should I become a diving instructor?
Then again, I teach monthly IDC courses.
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All right, everybody enjoy diving, enjoy teaching
enjoy your students and become more successful.
All right, bye-bye.