So think you got it all? Ouch..Hmmmm.
Remember Seito, when I cautioned you to take your time b4 answering?
That was for a reason. You continue to not listen to my advice. You took less than an hour to completely absorb what I took two days to consider and write and you say you "got it all". I have been keeping show koi for 17 years and it took me longer to go back and consider what
I myself had written to see if it really was that easy to understand. But maybe I am a bit thick. Are you a quick study? Or just impatient to move on?
I would like to believe the former, but unfortunately it seems much more likely to be the latter. Yes, you did good, but still missed
at least 1 out of 3 of the conformation "points" I was trying to get you to see. Including some big ones. Is 67% a passing grade at your school?? Not mine. You are not giving me a headache, as you worried about, but it is making me weary. All this blunt and out in the open honesty wears old people like me out.
LOL.. I feel like Tom Lansing.
LMAO. (Now THAT is funny if you know Tom. He is one of my favorite koi people. You always know where he stands) Usually I have kept my mouth shut, which may have been better. But don't lose heart,
you still got about 2 out 3 right. There is hope. How would you do if I posted another 20 pix? Maybe Tonio was right... a different book might be more what you are thirsting to know. Maybe Kodama's 1st book, but you would be getting the show stuff you want without the "guts". A building without a foundation.
The truth? I think you should save the pix, and your and my comments and
consider them for a week solid. Then put them away for a year at the end of that week, I think you will have absorbed all you are ready to absorb at that time. If you continue to study and improve your eye and koi keeping skills, you will have several aha and doh! moments when you go back and read it again a year from now. I do not mean that as elitest as it reads, but as the naked unsugarcoated truth. BTW, same approach with the book. Yes I have been told I can be painfully blunt when it seems a softer approach is not getting through.
Here is a bigger picture of the Yamabuki and also to give you an idea of it's size