Yeah, I have heard the "it's a lifestyle choice, not just a training mantra" before and laughed while DIR types turned up their noses to sandwiches simply because of the meat (so just how does their fearless leader justify all the habitat hotdogs?) What is even more funny is to watch one sneak off and have an orgasm while sucking down a smoke out of sight (or so they thought) of everyone. The fact that you had an instructor explain the why's is great, but see how many followers can offer the same explanation without the need to memorize a bunch of lines first. There is some pretty good thinking that went into DIR, shame more of their instructors do not do as good of a job explaining why in addition to how.