Practising skills

[Germansgt]

unfortunately, we can not always be out in the woods practising our skills. Sooo, last Sunday I was sitting in our country club waiting for my wife to finish horseriding. The bunch of friends was having a good time drinking champagne. After a while i got bored, so was a son of friends (8 yrs old). So I took out my Wave Tool, grabbed a piece of the wire that holds the cork of the Champagne bottle and together we made a fishhook out of it. Next the kid got some nylon cord which is used for tying together straw or hay, we took some fiber out of it et voila a fishing line. Then there was the cork, which is an excellent floater. Then he got a stick, and he had a complete fishing gear. I liked the little practice, and what the boy liked the most is that is all was made from rubbish.He is a kid that has almost all the hi tech toys you can imagine, but he was all happy with his new fishing gear. I just had to explain to him that trying it out in the nearby pond would be fish-poaching

How do you guys practice your skills? Should we do posts about this in regular intervals?
i have a new topic in mind which I will start in March, when I´m back from the CEBIT 2000 in Hannover.
Robert

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If so, e-mail me!

 

[mcerler]

I've found that working with Boy Scouts to be an excellent way to practice skills. You can't teach it if you don't know it. It also helps to instill the enjoyment of the outdoors in ways many of today's youth are not exposed to in their "politically correct" schools.

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"Actions speak louder than words"

 

[CAman]

I go hiking and camping a lot and always try something new on every trip. Keeps me learning. I've never tried any real hard core survival practice, though.

 

[Hoodoo]

So I took out my Wave Tool, grabbed a piece of the wire that holds the cork of the Champagne bottle and together we made a fishhook out of it.[/B]

Love this post! ROFL!

I wonder what would happed if you whipped out your Wave in one of the country clubs around here and started carving things up with it?

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Hoodoo

The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stone—the light-press’d blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.

Walt Whitman