class report –
UTD ESSENTIALS OF TECH
Bracciano LAKE, ITALY
WITH UTD INSTRUCTOR/INSTRUCTOR TRAINER ANDREA CAPPA
By Sonia Petruso
A beautiful sunny day in Anguillara Sabazia is ideal to meet with the team: Christian Giusti, my classmate,
and the two instructors in internship, Alberto Iannelli and Marco Alberti. Together we start working on the
equipment, step by step, under the watchful eye of our coach, UTD Instructor Trainer Andrea Cappa. He
does not lose sight off anything. He watches and explains, asking a thousand questions, studying the eyes,
speaking of DIR and of its philosophy.
The first day of the course we go from 9am to 9pm, non-stop. We begin with a dive followed by a theory
lesson and in the evening we have the video debriefing. Frame by frame we will identify the mistakes and
the way to adjust them.
Four days of intense
work, ten hours of
theory lessons per day
and two dives. Four days
to take the challenge.
Study, change, improve,
and then try again. A
laboratory where you are
together, where you will
learn that diving with a
team is extraordinarily
beautiful. And much
safer. Everyone watches
each other. Same depth,
same movements, the
eyes behind the mask
saying you are not alone
– you are part of a team.
Your team.
This course alone is worth a thousand other courses. Intensive, exhausting, a hard test in terms of physical
endurance. And even this is right. It is the mind that controls. That tells you that you can make the grade,
that you have to go forward. No need to be a superhero, but you demonstrate that you have the necessary
will. This is just a first goal to reach. And to reach it you have to work, very hard. Never giving up. A training ground for life as well as a great course. I would suggest it to everyone. Thanks team. Thanks Andrea
Cappa! To the next adventure!