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Old Mon Aug 21, 2006, 02:21pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
2005 and 2003. Hmmmmm. Aren't both of these years' school sessions prior to the Doug Eddings debacle, which has changed the way the mechanic is taught? No wonder it wasn't taught, there was not yet the need to teach it! Don't try to say that SoCal is wrong now, based on what you didn't get taught in '03 and '05.
A fair point.

So ... who here went this year - did they actually teach this? It hasn't yet filtered down to anything I've attended ... but I'm not TOO old a dog to learn new tricks though.

Personally, I think the Eddings Debacle was more along the lines of his ambiguous signal - his actual signal didn't look like what he'd been using earlier. And also personally, I think "He's Out!" works just fine in borderline sitches like this.
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