{"id":135,"date":"2008-04-22T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2008\/04\/22\/daughters-and-airplaines-another-point\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:37:48","slug":"daughters-and-airplaines-another-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/daughters-and-airplaines-another-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughters and airplaines &#8211; another point!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my daughter did her first freefall a couple of weeks ago, someone jumping with her managed to get some stunning photographs of her as she fell.\u00c2\u00a0 With her permission (obviously), I&#8217;m turning one of them into a slide, showing the three things you need to make a decent presentation.\u00c2\u00a0 As I looked at the pic it dawned on me that doing this kind of thing needs three things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the right techniques;<\/li>\n<li>the right equipment;<\/li>\n<li>the right attitude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miss any one of those and you&#8217;ve got a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, so you can cover up for a lack in one with an extra dose of another more when you&#8217;re presenting than when you&#8217;re in freefall but you get my point, I&#8217;m sure.\u00c2\u00a0 (You can&#8217;t substitute the skill of flapping your wings for the lack of a parachute but you can substitute good voice projection to cover the lack of a microphone!\u00c2\u00a0 :)\u00c2\u00a0 )<\/p>\n<p>So next time you&#8217;re sitting there thing &#8220;hhheeeeelpp&#8221; ask yourself which of the three it is you&#8217;re missing.\u00c2\u00a0 If it&#8217;s kit, buy or rent it (we&#8217;ll advise you on which is the best), if it&#8217;s skills you&#8217;re missing, call us for training&#8230;. and if it&#8217;s attitude, well, we can help a bit there, too but mainly it&#8217;s up to you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not about being un-afraid. Attitude is about being afraid and doing it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 Simon<\/p>\n<p>PS : the slide looks absolutely fab, too!\u00c2\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my daughter did her first freefall a couple of weeks ago, someone jumping with her managed to get some stunning photographs of her as she fell.\u00c2\u00a0 With her permission (obviously), I&#8217;m turning one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-posts","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}