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DJ FC · 07-31-2011, 01:34 PM

2 good developments this week:

On Wednesday I played my first round of golf. I'm very poor at it. I'm not consistent off the tee, I have no feel for how hard I'm going to hit the ball while chipping, and my putting is pretty bad. But to be honest I feel good about where I am considering I'm a 100% beginer. I know the things I need to fix and I'm pretty certain I can do that.

This weekend I took an intensive sailing course. It was 8 hours on Saturday followed by 8 more hours on Sunday. Lots of sailing for a complete N00b. I'm now level 1 certified by the Royal Yachting Association (which sounds way more impressive than it is). In the begining of September I will be taking another 2 day course for level 2 certification afterwhich I will be able to sail a dinghy 100% by myself competently. I'm 80% of the way there already. All that's left is some more precise movement plus man overboard and extreme situation type stuff. The cool thing about sailboats is that they scale quite well: once you learn how to sail a dinghy by yourself you pretty much know everything you need to sail a much bigger sailboat or yacht. As the boats get bigger there are naturally boat-specific things you need to learn (and I have yet to use a Spinnaker), but 95% of what you need to know is from sailing a dinghy. Cool shit.

07-31-2011, 01:34 PM	#25 (permalink)
DJ FC MURICAN Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 5,136 Internets: 253094	2 good developments this week: On Wednesday I played my first round of golf. I'm very poor at it. I'm not consistent off the tee, I have no feel for how hard I'm going to hit the ball while chipping, and my putting is pretty bad. But to be honest I feel good about where I am considering I'm a 100% beginer. I know the things I need to fix and I'm pretty certain I can do that. This weekend I took an intensive sailing course. It was 8 hours on Saturday followed by 8 more hours on Sunday. Lots of sailing for a complete N00b. I'm now level 1 certified by the Royal Yachting Association (which sounds way more impressive than it is). In the begining of September I will be taking another 2 day course for level 2 certification afterwhich I will be able to sail a dinghy 100% by myself competently. I'm 80% of the way there already. All that's left is some more precise movement plus man overboard and extreme situation type stuff. The cool thing about sailboats is that they scale quite well: once you learn how to sail a dinghy by yourself you pretty much know everything you need to sail a much bigger sailboat or yacht. As the boats get bigger there are naturally boat-specific things you need to learn (and I have yet to use a Spinnaker), but 95% of what you need to know is from sailing a dinghy. Cool shit.
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