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Old Thu Sep 30, 2021, 02:53pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Old Dog, New Tricks ...

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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
My advice comment is for everyone. Veterans are often just as bad at closely guarded as younger officials.
Agree. We see that a lot here here locally.

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My local IAABO board's interpreter (trainer) and evaluators have been on us (rightfully) about this for a few years. In fact, locally, we've been discouraged from using the newly approved IAABO not closely guarded signal (same signal as sixty second timeout) because so many of us were using it improperly (less than six feet).
It's often hard to teach old veterans new tricks, young'uns are usually much more receptive because they haven't yet developed any hard-to-get-rid-of bad habits, and are usually much more open to constrictive criticism.
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