20 Years of ISELP: Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Shaping the Future

And my wife also would come into the kitchen and say, what are you watching? But at that point in the studying, I had gotten to the point where I could understand Jean-Marie on double speed.

So it was French in motion.

It was fast.

I mean, just circling back, I obviously have fewer gray hairs than many people here.

And newer to the scene, I think the first module I went to was in 2012 or 2013.

And my...

My original education was from a United States veterinary school that was pretty standard and thought I knew some things.

And I was encouraged by Cooper Williams and Mindy's story that if you want to get better at lameness, you should really go to an ice help.

And so I remember the first module I went to was neck and back.

And I sat down in the hotel in Virginia and was expecting to sit through some lecture.

And they wheel in the cadaver.

And Jean-Marie started dissecting.

At that minute, I said, oh, this is a different beast in a good way.

And then they bring in the live horse for the live demo, and I said, oh, this is really different.

And, you know, it wasn't just those cool things that happened at the module.

It was what you learned.

It was the anatomy.

It was the biomechanics, the things that you did not learn in school that really opened my eyes and I'm eternally grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of.

The one I always remember was Rick Mitchell at one of the, it may have been pre-ISEL, but I'm there at the meeting with him, and I know Rick in passing, but I don't really know him.

And we run into each other as he's walking out of the bathroom and I'm walking in.

And we kind of bounce off each other and he's sitting there holding his head.

And I go, are you okay, Rick? And he goes, oh my God, I am going to kill the guy who taught me anatomy.

And I think that's back to what Duncan was saying is, you know, we all were taught anatomy.

We all learned anatomy.

I don't think we grasp what we needed to learn from it to function in the new world.