About 99% of the dives I have done, stages go to the left.

This came from day 1 when I started to do tech diving seriously (i.e. 10 years ago). The logic was explained in details from the original Hogarthian approach, and everything makes perfect sense (to me).

DIR pushes the Hogarthian approach beyond the gear configuration more toward team, gas, safety focus. But the basis is still relying heavily on using logical explanations for everything used, and contrare to casual observers, it is a slowly evolving system to implement more features as the technology progresses.

There isn't much that I don't support the Hogarthian/DIR viewpoint in general, the only thing that I don't support is their view of CCR use in non-exploratory diving (99.9999% of the diving done).

Independent if I am diving OC or any Rebreather unit, the frontal configuration is standardized exactly the same way. The only thing (really is) different is the gas source on my back (twinset or RB unit).

All things evolve, so I am in the process of testing the Golem CCR stage side-mount method, but it has been a slow process to abandon abruptly a system that works so well for the last 10 years (for me) but I am still trying...

Don't flame me as I truly want to understand the view-point from left-handers...

I use my left hand to put on/take off my stages. And I teach the students to do the same, using both at the beginning but striving to be able to do with a single (left) hand even while moving (in perfect trim) as the goal.

So why is it difficult to handle the stages on the left for left-handers ?