Who's This Guy?

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Not Cuba...Robbinsdale Minnesota...the Robins of course :)

More hair on my face then than my head now :)

On the trip to my first ITCC Jeff Jepson, who was the MnTCC Champ that year and I were getting to know each other. It turns out that we competed against each other in high school. Jeff worked parallel bars and I worked side horse. Jim was an all around...and brought home a chest of medals when his team won the state meet. Over the years I've talked with other gymnast/diver arbos. It is agreed that the body discipline has made climbing easier. Brute force and strength has its place but finesse and 'the dance' will go further.

In '78 I had just gotten out of tech college and was doing arbo work and landscaping. I started Canopy Tree in Feb. of '79.

This picture is of John Prine...a much better horseman, and singer, than me :)
 

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How good were you on the rings, grizzly?
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Jeff Jepson and I were in the same gym 7-8 times during my senior year gymnastics season. He worked parallel bars for a southern 'burb, me a northern. We didn't know each other then though.

Jim, Jeff and I have talked about how good gymnastics was for tree climbing. Besides the usual fitness and agility things the key to making a good move work in gymnastics comes down to minute differences in hand and body placements.

I worked side horse only, Jim was an all-around...and came home from the State meet with a chest full of medals too. A team mate/co-captain in my junior year went on to win side horse. When he was learning a certain move he would take gym chalk and make marks on the side horse for hand placement targets. That helped him work out the move. The same sort of accuracy makes or misses a climbing move in the tree.
 
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