Sidemount Tips

what's up guys are surrounding him from Lakers good memory and got my side mount reg here just got done teaching a Deep Diver course for one of my students and while I was inside mount the question was raised by another diver that was on side several things one how do you adjust or how do you keep your tanks from twisting when your bungee is wrapped around you post and that's a very simple easy fix here and I'll show you real quick what I mean by that if you take your bungee off your BC itself or as you go to attach and you wrap it around the post what that does is pull that tank into this position here it causes two things one it's an annoyance that your valve knob actually digs into your to your side the other thing it is it blocks the knob you can't get to it if you need to feather it or anything like that so a real simple easy way to fix that is come up here to the top of the valve itself and on the back of the valve what we're gonna call this zero degrees we'll call the post 90 degrees and the dead center part we're going to call this 45 so at a 45 degree mark as I've drawn my hand down that just happens to be where my bolts nap is and what that allows is as that bungee system is actually pulling the cylinder this way that bolt snap actually pulls the cylinder back in this position so it actually keeps both of my cylinders in the correct position that I need them so let's go back down here to the bolt snap just for a second because I don't show you another little neat trick if you do a lot of traveling and you side mount dive when you travel and if you transition from aluminum to steel a neat little very simple design or system to use is the same one I've got here which is just nothing more than a cam strap a tri glide bolt snap and then a little piece of paracord now I do this for several reasons because I do a lot of traveling guys I do a lot of diving when I travel as far as sidemount goes and I need a easy simple system when I'm on boats to swap over tanks so cam straps very simple pop it loose but on another tank you're set ready to go but another reason I use this is for adjustability so with this paracord here I've actually got it set up right now just for the dives that I'm doing around here but this is real simple it's just a piece of paracord it runs through a loop girth hitch around a boat bolt snapped there but it's adjustable if I need to extend the length for whatever reason maybe I got thicker gloves on or maybe I'm transitioning from aluminum to steel instead of attaching to my d-ring on my waist strap I can actually attach to the d-ring on my butt plate of my wing system or on my harness system simply by adjusting this down so I can take this extra two and a half to three inches of play simply pull it down through and that gives me that extra length to reach around to that but play on a side note it's also for safety concerns I can very easily cut this with a knife set of shears or line cutter and break free if I ever need to for entanglement purposes or anything like that so guys that's a very simple trick to do to keep your cylinders in the correct position simply put your bolt snap at that 45-degree angle so as your bungee pulls it around your bolt snapped pulls it back in the other position and then as I said if you're transitioning from steel to aluminum or need to transition from thin gloves the thicker gloves the paracord there on the back is a very simple way to do it but guys I appreciate you watching this video if you liked it simply smash that like button for me if you want to know a little bit more about my setup and how I set up my side mountain wide outside mount versus back mounted doubles simply click this link right here and it'll take you to a video explaining all that information to you if you know want to know a little bit more specifically on the rig system that I'm using which is currently the Marez XRD R 25 X rig system you can simply click on this link right here and it'll take you to a review video of that particular rig system because I really appreciate you watching the video once again if you liked it smash that like button for me as always makes you follow us on Instagram and Twitter like us on facebook pennis on pinterest subscribe to us here on youtube and as always guys we appreciate your business

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Id: 2NAHmdRlGbs

Length: 4min 31sec (271 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 13 2017