This program is fantastic!

[Cathryn Bauer]

Greetings:

It's the end of my third week in the MUB, and I am certain that it is improving my speed! Mark's techniques for speedbuilding did not really work for me before, but the problem was that I needed the context that he provides in his videos for it to fit. Somehow, I have managed to keep the faith and work the program every day. I'm trying to figure out how I can do it twice a day. I now feel that I have a fighting chance at passing something on the upcoming RMR skills test and that the effort will be well spent. So I signed up yesterday.

What's important for me at this point in time is, "Stay on the speaker, stay on the speaker." It seems that everything else falls into place for me when I do that.

Here are some of the briefs that I have developed under Mark's influence. My apologies if they turn out not to be mine after all (I never keep track!).

'06 SOEUBGS

'01 SOEUN

'05 FOEUF

street name STRAEUPL

place of birth PHROB

$100 HARDZ

Sheriff's Office SHOFS

based on the police report BHRORT

going to admit to GEUPLT

three years of court probation THROGS

Central Collections SKHREGS

Hope these are useful.

Blessings, Cathryn

[Monica Gerard]

Wonderful news, Cathryn!

I'm still a student, and I can't even HOPE to get more than a word here and there on those dictations. But I try with all my might to keep on the speaker and try to form mental strokes for everything, even if I have to use my moldy old long-theory. Just try to keep my hands moving. It's all in the effort - that's why it works! It also helps me to find "The Zone" because I'm not preoccupied with my hands so much - just with being "one" with the speaker.

As a result, I stopped trailing at my training speeds.

I'm in the process of switching over to Stenomaster/Magnum and finding that I'm more aggressive about staying on the speaker, even if I'm only drilling sentences. Believe me, I'm trying to record individual sentences as fast as I can utter them! And when I write them, I try to stay on those puppies!

Good luck on the RMR!!

[Cathryn Bauer]

Thank you! Now I have hope, at least.

A student doing this -- wow. I am very impressed.

[Monica Gerard]

It was a question of sink or swim - my school wasn't preparing me to do realtime and they insisted we write everything out. I knew I couldn't be happy writing their way, since I wanted to write short. It's challenging to swich theories at 180, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!

[Cathryn Bauer]

Always great to see a student taking charge of their CR education. I had the same pressure at one point. It was one of the reasons I ended up teaching myself for most of my CR training.