The best way to learn bonsai:
- Thread starter Adair M
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Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Quick! We have to find your contact lens before sensei comes back!
River's Edge
Imperial Masterpiece
Never got the hang of two chopsticks at once for root work
0soyoung
Imperial Masterpiece
Which are you saying is the way?
- doing
- watching
BonsaiMatt
Shohin
Crap. I thought it was by reading internet trolls debate forest soil vs bonsai soil.
Back to the drawing board for me...
Back to the drawing board for me...
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
Since we haven't established that the one doing is the master. This could very well be a novice watching another guy doing things the wrong way. 
All that aside, that tree looks good so yeah this could very well be the way to learn bonsai.
All that aside, that tree looks good so yeah this could very well be the way to learn bonsai.
markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
Kihachiro Kamiya with a very young looking Daisaku Nomoto.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
I stand corrected
Before your post, it could easily be Boudreaux watching Thibodeaux.
BackyardBonsai
Shohin
Debatable... I don't believe you have to do thing that slow to get the best result. You seems to think anything the Japanese do is the right and only way.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
The best way to do bonsai is just buy them already made?
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
Or we can buy the best "smoke material" and light it up. After a few, every tree will look good.
bonsaichile
Omono
I think what Adair is saying is, find a master/teacher and learn from them. Not, go to Japan and spend years in apprenticeship ?
Rid
Shohin
Is this another karate kid movie? I wish someone and Holly weird could come up with an original idea
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Absolutely.
Financially?
Ummm…..would you like to supersize your order?
…...not a Shiner nor an expensive bottle of red to be found.....color me dubious...
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Deleted member 21616
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there's a balance. especially for most of us, i think, who don't intend to be professional bonsai practitioners or artists but do want to use correct techniques and aspire to create trees that each of us finds rewarding.
I spent 2 years reading around on this forum, the web generally, watching mirai videos, etc. I learned A LOT that way.
lately i've been learning in-person with a handful of experts, and although it certainly feels like i'm learning A LOT in a very short amount of time with them (and I am!), it is obvious to me that these (sometimes costly) experiences build on and benefit from the background information that i have already acquired.
I also got a lot of 'newbie' questions out of my system by reading around here, and by asking the questions myself sometimes (wait, maples have a dormancy period? what do you mean they need water every day? what's an internode? I can't use 'earth' in the pot?)
I spent 2 years reading around on this forum, the web generally, watching mirai videos, etc. I learned A LOT that way.
lately i've been learning in-person with a handful of experts, and although it certainly feels like i'm learning A LOT in a very short amount of time with them (and I am!), it is obvious to me that these (sometimes costly) experiences build on and benefit from the background information that i have already acquired.
I also got a lot of 'newbie' questions out of my system by reading around here, and by asking the questions myself sometimes (wait, maples have a dormancy period? what do you mean they need water every day? what's an internode? I can't use 'earth' in the pot?)
Yes, the experienced Master teaching his pupil. The pupil, Daisaku, has gone on to win at Kokufu, Gafu-ten, and is on the Board of Directors of the Nippon Shohin Association.
The point is not that you have to go to Japan to learn, but the best way is to be guided by someone more experienced than yourself.
I’m not saying it’s the only way to learn. But, in my opinion, it’s the best way. One on one, person to person.
Boon took that picture of Daisaku and Kamiya around 1999. A couple weeks ago, he could have taken a similiar picture of me watching over Daisaku’s shoulder as he worked a JBP.
No, that’s the easiest way to get bonsai! Lol!!
My post is “the best way to LEARN bonsai”.
There are many who own good bonsai that don’t know how to DO Bonsai.
Tentakelaertje
Omono
Never got the hang of two chopsticks at once for root work
That is for untangling roots twice as fast! Work smarter, not harder
quietobserver
Omono
Basically the same can be said for most careers, hobby’s, and I’m guessing a trade craft. Learning bonsai the best way is indicative of the best way to learn any skill.
Wax on, wax off...
