PrecisionMania Practice

Donna and I have about 15 hours of practice putting together the show for PrecisionMania. We will be taking it on the road around west central Florida and symposia along the east coast.

I've often heard tandem kayaks referred to as divorce boats. Well, tandems can't hold a candle to doing close together synchronized paddling. I think marriage counselors could promote this activity and get quite a spike in their business. After so many years together (No it really is a lot of years. It doesn't just seem like a lot.) much of our communication skills seem to have fallen into knowing what they other person meant rather than listening to what they said. But, when challenged to do something new, the flaws sure came out - fast. The first 4 or 5 hours were especially hard. I was furious with Donna and she had to be pretty fed up with me. After several practice sessions we finally talked about what was going wrong. While neither of us was perfect, I sure have fallen into a broad gap between what I thought I said, and what I really had said.

Now, we have moved on. The act is progressing. Our communication is still improving, but still has a long way to go. At the pace of my improvement, I wonder if I will be alive long enough to get it right. The saving grace is learning what we are expecting and just doing it.

We hope you get to see the show and enjoy it. We expect it to keep evolving, growing, and getting better. But, for now it is already filled with oohs, ahhs, ahas, and hahas.