venomballistics
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he's a special kind of case. He's one to loiter in the noob category about 3 or 4 times longer than the average joe.
It's not that he's an idiot, its that how he learns is a study in two distinct layers of leaning.
The guitar is a good example of this.
with 5 chord shapes, and a system of transposing and modifying them into various voicings, one can strum along to just about anything
the shapes and system being hardwired into your head allows you to apply them to the song.
the song itself is more likely to be a temporary memory kind of thing, like cramming for a test where everything falls out of your head while its being graded.
His issue is transferring the temporary cram for the test layer into the permanent hardwired retained level.
If you managed to get two things to stick at the end of the day, you did very well as an instructor.
I eventually taught this guy to fly model airplanes.
funny thing was. after it all clicked for him, and he in fact, had total control of his plane, the following week he forgot he knew how to fly at all. I got EVERYTHING to stick, except for that. the simple piece of knowledge that he did know how.
after a cup of coffee, I dug out the buddy box, told him to take off, fly the landing pattern and land.
He did so, with adequate skill. Landing was a little bouncy, but left the plane perfectly intact.
I never touched the sticks.
I sent him up again, same arrangement, telling him to add one loop and a roll to the downwind leg.
again, I never touched the sticks.
I don't think the USMC had anyone patient enough to fully train this guy. thus he didn't re up.
