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Originally Posted by nsmar4211
Perhaps, rather than fault the medium, we should start asking the demonstrators to expand into other items? If the club says, hey, here's what we'd like to see.... rather than leave the demonstrators thinking chop-n-pot is wanted, everyone can be happy! Keep the chop-n-pot for the county fairs where the intent is to get warm bodies interested long enough to want more........
Brian's idea is a great one! Just need to tell this to the demonstrators. "Hey, could you bring a raw item and work it a bit, a partially worked item, and a more refined item to see the progress?" If the club provides the trees, hopefully you could find 3 of the same species... If it's a "new" species, well, then we're stuck a bit  . |
Well, that seems to be quite a bit of the problem here. I have seen good teachers, but rarely a good demo. And the self-admitted problem in the thread I quoted was that this presenter did these chop and pot demos because the clubs wanted them! Oh, he knew it was unethical and all, but they made him do it!
I appreciate a well-done and informative demonstration as much as anyone. I would go a long way to get to see Kimura or Marco do something like that. But so much of it is just crap!
Systematic teaching is the only way to overcome this kind of situation, but it will never happen until people get frustrated enough to seek out real teachers, people who know what's what. |