ti sunday morning we headed out a bit later than saturday as the whole house overslept, lol. i was hoping to get into the finish line / judges' tent but that stuff is pretty sensitive so i didn't think i'd get the chance to, and i didn't get to. which is fine since i've never done that at lb anyway, and we have a totally different camera / computer system.
anyway, most of the morning i worked at the registration tent signing in volunteers and such. that was interesting because after two minutes of training, the lady walked away to do her other stuff. lol.
later, i got to work marshaling, which is where you call teams to wait in the tents before they go over to the docks to load onto the boats. marshaling can be pretty frantic, but it's much better at ti than at lb. a lot of that has to do with venue, i think, how there is a lot more room to space things out. anyway. so there is, like, the marshaling tent with two staff there who count wristbands and such, and there is a single marshaller who calls teams over. i hesitate to call anyone the head marshaller, because it's not quite clear at ti who's in charge. anyway, so i was the marshaller who was alone. of course. because why wouldn't i be alone in a key position after only minimal training? lol, i also tried to tweet out the heats, but for some reason we couldn't figure out the password and such so we abandoned that. i would have loved it tho since i manage the tweets for the scdbc, haha. working this department was so good tho. marshaling is where i think we most need to improve at lb. (excluding behind the scenes stuff where we could improve the absolute most) but anyway, i have a few ideas about noise control which might help the lb situation. hopefully i'll be able to play around with things here.
after the tourney we helped pack up a little and at night we went to the unofficial paddler's party. i got drunk, lol. i didn't even really know until i looked back on my goodnight texts to rip. sheesh. but basically, i played a drinking spin game on a phone with some totally random people and had a bunch of beer. blech.
monday morning i spent with thaddeus helping with a little tear down. we visited two cdba practice sites: lake merced and jlac. so great that i finally got to see these place he's been talking about for years! he also gave me a tour of their equipment storage where i got a few ideas. it was very useful.
all in all i had an amazing time. i learned so so so much! the stuff that won't translate to lb is fine, because i learned how ti does it and that's a great thing anyway. i'm told that eventually i'll take over the scdbc. which is not something i'm looking forward to, but even i have to agree that currently there is no one else available, or even seemingly interested. most of our staff do their own thing and kind of keep their head down. i'm always interested in learning all i can, and i'm constantly looking for feedback. i actively want to improve our club and our tournaments. and i don't think there's anyone else as outwardly aggressive as me in wanting those things at lb.
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