Hello all, and a sincere thank you for putting on such a great event. Thanks to the members who provided encouragement and congratulations to those of us who achieved our goal of attaining General Free Scholar ranking. I view it as my first small, but vital step in becoming a serious student of our art.
I would like to give a separate thank you to John C. for allowing me to pester him with various and assorted questions not pertaining to the material he presented so well during the Rapier Seminar. And the new bruises... Vas sehrt, das lehrt.
This event could not have been the success that it was without the hard work and dedication of three very special people - Eric Winkler, Kevin Peterson, and Aaron Pynenberg. Thank you all for being such gracious hosts. Christine and I look forward to being able to repay you in kind.
A big congratulations to Jeremiah Backhaus, it was a pleasure to meet and train with you. I certainly look forward to crossing swords with you again.
Lastly, to the rest of the attendees, most of whom I got to meet at the IG, it was great to see and spend time with you, and hopefully we'll get a chance to do so again at another fantastic event.
Jim Churches
GFS - Study Group Leader
ARMA Las Vegas
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"In combat, we do not rise to the level of our expectations, but fall to the level of our training."
