re: Share some of your experiences you had with your father

we rebuilt a car engine together.
he taught me the entire process, step by step.

he was a pilot. he took me up in a two controls plane, that you use when you are teaching someone, when I was 4 years old. Gave me the controls.

he taught me yoga. each time he taught me a piece, he would first demo. then have me do it. then ask me if I had any questions. then he would say, do that every day. Now and then he would check on me, and make me demo what I could do. Sometimes he would demo something but not make me learn it. I still use what I learned from him to this day.

He was intense. He and a next door neighbor, a General Williams, who was West Point grad, taught me and the Williams boys martial arts. He and the General could both walk rice paper and not even stir it up.
both, the real deal. They rolled the rice paper out onto the living room rug, which is not perfectly flat, you know, a rug has little ups and down in it. I said, that's impossible, put it on a wood floor. They both walked across it and did not even mark it up.
I still cannot comprehend how they could do that.