A seasoned operator told me my tagline work was sloppy, so I stopped rushing hand signals and started taking 10 extra seconds to verify my slinger's signals before every move.

Once I slowed down to actually confirm each hand signal instead of just nodding, I dropped my near-miss incidents from three in a month to none over six months; has anyone else had a mentor call them out on something simple like that?

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diana_bell7412d ago

Wait, isn't rushing signals kinda how you get stuff done fast though?

evan5111d ago

Oh man, hard disagree. Rushing signals is exactly how you end up with a mess that takes twice as long to fix. I'd rather take the extra few seconds to be clear than have someone ask me "wait what did you mean by that" five times after. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, you know?