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Originally Posted by pykoh
Welcome to the forum, it has been like that always. Several people has tried changing it but to no avail. You will get used to it once you learned how to handle them.
Don't let this dampen your spirit or enthusiam in this hobby. Try to experiment and see what setup works best for you (CW or GW) and just continue to use it.   |
Very well said. Knowledge is power. If we just want to follow blindly what "experts" do, then we are only the looser. What that is applicable to the Japanese may not be applicable to us. We should follow what the Thais have succeeded in achieving all these years. Their TVRs are now as good as the Japanese bred.
When I was at Master Kashino student's home, I was shown seven of Master Kashino's best Tosai and also those bred by his student. I can only say that I cannot tell the difference.
Look at the Thai bred black ranchus. Has anyone seen or can show me a better China or Japanese bred black ranchu? Know the difference and be willing to accept what is best. As I was looking at the ranchus from the Japanese magazines and pictures of ranchus taken before the war years, I can only say that the ranchus have improved by leaps and bounds.
Move on my friends and let not traditions hold you back. When reality struck you, it may be too late.
Let me share with you a story.
There was once this yound man who was walking along a busy street. Loh and behold, he say a $10/- note on the floor and no one even notice the money. This young man pick it up and as is expected was jumping for joy.
This incident begins a personal quest for him to be looking down on the ground everywhere he went. When he was free, he would walk for miles just so that he could find more money.
Finally, after 50 years later on his death-bed, he had found a total of $316.05. For 50 years, he went around to fulfill this "dream". But in that 50 years, he had missed out on the beauty of this world. The world that is above the ground.