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Tuesday 10th April, 2012

It's exactly eight years this month that I signed on to the Sexyloops board for the first time. I don't recall how long I lurked before I plucked up the courage to join the board. I am not by nature one of life's joiners and I probably ummed and ahhed about signing up for several weeks, if not months. It seemed to be the thing to have a name that wasn't your own to hide behind. I have often been (wrongly) accused of being a grumpy old git so I thought it ironic (and funny) to come up with the name Victor after Victor Meldrew the grumpy old git from a TV sitcom. Victor has haunted me ever since, especially as I very rarely go in to full rant mode in print, unlike in real life. I didn't fully realise how international Sexyloops was and how few had heard of Victor Meldrew so instead of being a joke it became more of a mill stone. The word Victor has all sorts of unintended connotations, certainly not any that I had intended anyway. I have wanted to kill Victor off for some time but apparently he is now immortal and impossible to kill. So I have to live with him as my alter ego.

I don't know if Paul has ever had a count up of how many board members have become instructors as a direct result of Sexyloops. I suspect it would be dozens. Then there are those who used, and still use, the board and web site directly or indirectly as study material. I did, and do. In fact I consider myself a child of Sexyloops. I wouldn't exist as I am without this site. Paul makes a strange Father (and I an even stranger child, perhaps).

So, finally, we come to the question I want to raise on my first Front Page. This site has more member instructors than you can shake a stick at, and while we discuss the minutia of fly casting, fly fishing, fly tying and even photography we hardly ever discuss Instruction. We offer it, we give it, we take it. We never discuss it. Why is that?

The fly casting instructor formerly known as Victor.


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