>>>> maybe you should have attend the clinic, then you would have get comments on the pictures.
Yeah, like I said, if I were a cynic (ha!), I'd think that these people just want to sell clinic space. Frankly, I think that's garbage, Jasmin. I do NOT have to attend a conformation clinic 3000 miles from my home to understand conformation. I've been to conformation and judging clinics within 10 miles of my house, and there are many opportunities for such education within 150 miles of my home. I've read oodles of books and magazine articles on this subject. Why can other experts manage to convey information clearly on this subject, but for some reason, it is NECESSARY to attend "special" clinics for Icelandics? All of the other judging and conformation clinics I've attended applied to all breeds. But, nooo, not for Icelandics. They are just sooo different. That standard excuse, that we "must" attend these events in person is just ridiculous in this day and age. We've never had better, easier and cheaper ways to convey information, when people WANT to convey it - via videos, websites, magazine articles, articles on websites, books...I think people just pull out that excuse because they can't defend things in any other way. I'm a professional control systems engineer and I get paid pretty well for this specialty, working as a consultant. I have a degree in computer science with a minor in electrical engineering. But, very little of what I know and do was I formally trained for while in college or afterwards. I learned the details of this career on my own, the stuff that keeps my skills in demand, using the foundation theory I learned in my education, and lots of personal time researching the ever-emerging technology that keeps this field changing - reading tech journals, attending an occasional seminar locally, reading, testing, trying things. I don't know too many tech careers these days where people have to attend basic training in person to stay up-to-date in their field. Horse conformation is NOT evolving very fast, unlike the technology in many of our careers. Horses are pretty much built the way they were 50 years ago and longer - or at least the biomechanics remain the same. If I waited to "attend" training for everything as basic as what we're talking about now, I'd be unemployed. People just don't HAVE to be spoon-fed everything in order to learn, and to learn well. I was just floored to hear that excuse so often when I got into Icelandics. It's just pretty backwards this day and age. >>>> All the fotos are of Icleandics. But most of the illustrations aren't. Karen Thomas, NC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 1/10/2007 2:52 PM
