and sometimes there just not a need to speak eloquently, common english gets the job done.
As Dan has pointed out you can learn something from raising koi. Whether they be true tategoi or tosai. there are many different methods of learning,
not all can go from point a to z by learning from what other's tell them. They must plod along learning at their own rate. As Dan points out, even expensive
fish don't always make a good "investment". As I tell my students, you didn't fail in your investment, the fish may have ; but you now have aquired that
knowledge toward advancing your education. And that is worth investing in.
Steve,
As someone who has invested much of their life in koi, and reinvested their efforts to help others, I think people think of your opinions positively. But as a person who's special knowledge is show koi and building ponds to support them, why wouldn't they expect you'd be focused on any other end of the hobby? Actually as a team, I think we do alright in taking those pretty rocks Nancy speaks of, out of the pond and along side it. Still to be appreciated but not destroying our water quality and allowing beginners to progress along the road ( or rungs of the ladder) toward giving our AKCA judging Team ( including yourself) fits trying to all agree on GC.
In summation, when I first started in this hobby there was nothing to refer to for help. NOTHING! Today there is no excuse for those wanting to learn not to have access to great information. I think the challenge they have is trying to figure out where they're at in the hobby and where they want to go.While they do,I'll continue to offer my tosai selection seminars, knowing it may be only a passing phrase for many but also knowing that to koi breeders who produce the treasured few, having a ready market for those that didn't make the cut continues to help them as well. The full circle of koi
