a weather window

As the days now slowly get longer, demand for sessions in the outdoors is picking up again. Given the generally windy conditions throughout the past week or two, we've been watching the met charts closely, and planning sessions to run in sheltered locations, fitting in trips and customised coaching in line with the New BCU awards and in preparation for the summer!

An open and flexible approach combined with a depth of local knowledge is needed to capitalise on days like yesterday, when an exceptional weather window looks possible...

Without a doubt this also requires the involvement of 'luck'. To quote from a chat given to us as students whilst at QEII High School, by Norman Wisdom discussing his career in acting and the amount of 'luck' people kept telling him he had received, which concluded in him telling us;

"the harder I worked, the luckier I became"

This has often repeated itself in my head, and we have adopted it as part of our philosophy in business as well as life in general, with very positive results. The flexibility to make use of 'windows of opportunity' and the ability to enthuse motivation is also key to this. Utilising these themes (and others) in our leadership and development programs, has given us a proven sucess record with our staff and our corporate and private clients.

Planning our Sunday sessions for the winds dropping, and leaving an exciting ground swell, provided a very sheltered 'classroom' to work on edge control with little forays into the larger conditions! The Intermediates headed further South in the afternoon, past the awesome sea cliffs and the view up at the debris from the rock fall at the Chasms, then out round Kitterland and past the larger seal colony with half grown pups in its midst, before returning to the slipway as the shaddows lenthened...