"It was difficult to translate just watching into improving my own play", Griff said, "until John Madden, the master of game film, showed me how it was done. Now, comes the responsibility for translating film breakdown -- not only into each player's potential and each player's awareness of the opposing team but also in how I communicate that. That will be difficult but not as daunting as case discussion in Civil Procedure class."
"For me, sometimes a student's vision leaps ahead of what I expected from that student. And results in an extraordinary work. Then I search for the right questions and expect surprises", Caydance responded, "like the perfectly bound photo-documented journey of a student and friend's backyard-built raft, that was unveiled in class this week. The way a series of photos led me down a shallow river and with every page, the raft fell apart a little in each photo until its carcass was dragged on shore to a wildflower-strewn meadow oasis, where the final surprise was the appearance in the meadow of a cooler full of beer."
Driving over the hills
to Santa Cruz, watching for deer crossing on the dark road, the subject of road trip talk had been game film.