WHAT I LEARNED AT THE WALLABY OPEN
By Luis Pérez

together, and finally this year was my first try.
When it comes to learning, I divide my learning in different types:  Amazement, discovery, experience, and feeling.
Amazement takes place when I am totally taken by the shear impression of what is being observed or experienced.  It does not necessarily apply to the matter at hand, but it leaves me with a sense of general knowledge that helps enrich my life. 
Discovery is what happens when I see or hear something for the very first time.  I learn something which I did not have a clue before hand.
Experience to me happens when I live something that I have studied, read, or heard about, but now I get to experience it first hand.
And finally, feeling is what I sense when living an incredible occurrence.
The Wallaby Open provided plenty to fill

"There is more to be learned in one competition, than in an average season of recreational flying."
         Jim Lee

The above statement was one of my main motivators to make the effort to go to Florida and participate in the Wallaby Open.  The other motivator was keeping a promise that I made to Malcolm Jones when he invited me to go to the first Open.   I had lived in Florida for 8 years, and was a regular (as regular as I can be) at Wallaby.   I have always been a strong supporter of aerotowing, which I believe is the future of the sport, and wanted to be part of one the great things that Malcolm does for our sport.   Unfortunately, it took me a while to get it