Jerry...
I always enjoy your comments......thanks.
Gordy
From: jerry puckett <jerry_puckett2001@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Gordon Hill <hillshead@xxxxxxx>
Subject: perspective
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:41:51 -0800 (PST)
Gordy, I copy all e-mails with the thought if I do not understand it today it may become relevant later as I grow in casting. I look at the the CCI only as a ticket to learn, same as a Private Pilots license opens the doors to learn if one survives. I look at Paul Arden and Jeff Wagner the same way I looked at Pilots with tons of experience over the years--people I should listen too and learn from. I credit that approach with 40years and 20,000 hours of survival and safe flight. Real close a couple of times and what I learned from the Masters saved me!Paul and Jeff make valid points and I hope we do not discourage these fine gentlemen from their sharing with us. I have watched and learned from them in person and they have my utmost respect and thanks. I love Pauls sense of humor, what a gift! Jeff, you are the best! Dr. Gordon Hill does an excellent job of synthesizing. So I ask how can we lose?Two of the best casters I know are my teachers and are not Certified. Ryan Barnes and Lance Egan, in their twenties. They can teach and cast circles around me. Certification is a matter of personal choice. Why would any of the Master Casters and Teachers want to be Certified if fail to set the example. Mickey Anderson, Lori Ann Murphy and Eddie Robison lit my fire at ISE shows?I just have this burning thrist to learn while I have the chance. Being the simple minded person that I am I will communicate in my simple minded way.I love this e-mail group and feast on it. My two cents, Jerry