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the club usually supplies the material (which in most cases is pretty bad)
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I remember last year at MBS my teacher at the time (Ivan Waters of Yaukunai) brought his teacher over from Japan (Susumo Nakamura). The person coordinating the club meeting for that month had picked out some material for him to work on, but it was definately sub-par for someone of his stature.
He didn't say anything, but just walked through the nursery and pointed out a different tree and said he would work on that one. Now, that tree happened to be a very old Japanese Black Pine that had been imported many years ago. It was owned by one of our club members who was just housing it at the nursery. It was an amazing tree, but had been let go for many years.
Fortuantley, the owner was able to swallow his pride and agreed to let Mr. Nakamura work on the tree. What resulted was an amazing demonstration of the resurection of a world class tree.
Long story short, if you get the visiting master involved in the planning process, instead of just dumping him into it, you are likely to end up with a better result.
- bob