Yep I know exactly what you're talking about. Ya gotta set limits. No point to being a "pro" and smoking as much as possible.
big hits are good at the right time when its your weed or theres a lot of it. my cuzzn that taught me alot about smoking always takes as big as hit as possible and holds it in for a good time(specally good nug) and holds the bowl for long periods of time, so a normal bowl would last 10-15 out of my big sppon but with him it is about 5-9
i don't think huuuuge hoover tokes should be allowed on a 2 toke taxi though because it just strains the spliff, leads to sideburns and fucks the smoke up.
On just smoking one bowl, some of my friends are huge compared to me so they can take much much more and I like to keep up with them so when they mean 1 bowl out of a corncob(lol) pipe, it means a whole dime at a time. I have to wait a little before going back to another but im usually done after that because im a late night smoker. : )
Me and my friends would always try to see who could take the biggest hits. We always got SOO blazed. So I agree that taking big hits works amaaazingly! haha