From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 10:54:37 ART
Well,
I've gotten past two daysa with "the Evil Bastard".
I received a nice compliment yesterday - for a couple
of issue spotting exercises.
He really kicked me pretty hard on Monday - his labs
are so... unique and challenging.
He really makes you think, he gives you the
opportunity to eat your own foot in addition to the
nasty little tricksssseeesss that he waiting for the
unwary student.
All the while he watches everything you do... It is
quite interactive and he does things as you go...
makes comments on your speed, he has a lab of backbone
devices that enhance the overall experience...
I gave him a surpise yesterday that came in the form
of a beautiful young lady with a spectacular voice...
He won't forget the expereince any time soon... Nope
strike 1 for Darby...
So I took advantage of doing my homework before the
visit...
However he did introduce me to a form that he said I
would be begging to sign by the end of the week...
It is an interesteng form and it reads capitulation...
Unlike Caslow or the Brians - Apparently no one has
ever completed a single lab of his in 8 hours on the
first try, nor have they passed it obviously...
While some traps seem obvious, others are subtle and
you must have a keen eye, but that keen eye can cost
you points... and precious time and yet you cannot
look away easily since you can feel something
crawling...
Your actual performance is not graded till the last
day when you receive the Answer Keys for labs...
I started getting sick and am suffering a bad cough,
the weather here, while nice, is different than
Orlando and couple with no sleep has left me with a
painful chest cough, headache, fever and nausia. Not
the best had to be dealt when one is up against the
likes of Heinz Ulm...
In any event, my failures are my own. I do not yet
have scores to report, his style took getting used to
but have slowed me down considerably. Lots of things
to look at reach for along the way, I suppose - lots
of pretty... flowers...
The fruit is bittersweet sometimes and one cannot
survive on what has been challenged on before alone...
The man is a genius and he is mean, cruel, calm ,and
cool, and all at the same time...
He keep picture of those he has tortured before and
have surrendered and have therefore known defeat...
at his hands and his labs...
All in all, a refreshing difference than any of his
competitors...
Yep different...
And even the Brians who have quite a list of CCIE's
may be hard-presseed to actually account for the
number of CCIE's Heinz has on his site... over 500...
and he undoubtedly has the most "1st Time Passers
overall"...
Many of which are quite simply "FIRST-TIME PASSERS" -
With over 500 CCIE's to date some of whom you may see
on other sites (since they either bought a workbook
from one or more or even taken a class with...) but
you need to dig a little deeper, how many sought out
Mr. Heinz...
I ran into one guy before he left the 3-Week Bootcamp
and I aksed him why he went to Heinz Ulm's Camp and he
said "My co-workers and friends said there was but one
place to go to learn what you need to learn to pass
the CCIE Lab the first time, so here I am"...
Heinz does not accept everyone is seems... He likes a
picture of his victims fresh for and from the
slaughter... I think it a before and after comparison.
But they leave his camp ready to take on the Lab and
mostly anything else...
Most sit the lab within a few days of class and others
not much longer...
The guy has a knack for tearing a person down, making
them acknowledge their own demons, and finally forging
a well-made sword capable of not only meeting the
beast but taking him down in but a flick of the
wrist... or so it would seem... I'll find out when I
am ready...
There is no doubt that the sheer magnitutude of work
coupled by the demand and expectation are simply
unheard of...
He has a hard time understanding how his competitors
can even consider a Boot Camp in only 5-days...
His students seem to agree wholeheartedly...
I'm only on day-2 and I am beginning to understand
myself...
I managed to spot many but not all of not all issues
today, but I sensed there were a few things that were
going to trip me up.
My health has failed me today and tonight... I need
rest and it shows...
The guy sitting to my immediate left is a survivor of
the 3-Week Camp and is eyes are red and bloodshot and
the toll on his soul, paid in blood, sweat, and tears
can be seen in his BLOOD RED EYES and his fiurrowed
brow...
Heinz does something to you... He transforms you....
He makes you more than you are or even thought you
could be...
An interesting transformation to watch as students
come out of their own cocoon and emerge as
butterflies...
I have three days to go - it is 3:49 am here in Denver
and I am starting to get sick, so I need to stop and
sleep now and let the medicines take their effect as I
try to heal before I go to get carved up more...
The guy next to me mumbles almost incoherently about
"The Dirty Bastard" and Heinz only smiles and sinks
back in his chair easily satisfied by his work....and
his latest tormented victim...
I do believe he customizes things a bit... as you go
through his maze... He might as well be called the
Minotaur...
Today I caught one "issue" and he quickly offered
another - seemingly same, I feinted and easily
defended my reasoning for not choosing the option he
readily offered... He smiled as he agreed with my
line of reasoning... He complimented me on another
issue that I found - naturally he challenged my line
of thought... I defended it genuinely and he offered
me a compliment citing his entire class from the week
before had not considered what I had...
Next there was a matter of spotting an entire
slaughterhouse of "issues" - It think I spotted them
all - carefully defended each and everyone and offered
other secondary or tertiary ways to do them if the
first one or two techniques should fail scutiny...
Cause you know he asked...
He liked this... but the clock was ticking...
I did find two ways to do two other tasks, he slid my
carefully worded blades aside with a quick and sure
parry.... and said he would note those options and
would rule them out on future labs...
The guy is good, witty, accomplished, and quite
striking...
He challenges you over lunch to test how your mental
facilities are holding up or if your senses have
dulled.... again very personal very detailed... he
never misses an opportunity to poke you and prod you
and check your gums to see if they are bleeding... He
sniffs for weaknesses relentlessly and being tired or
exhausted is simply not exusable... The man does not
stop... You are in his house and he owns the house;
lock, stock, and barrel...
The man just does not relent... If he even thinks you
slack he asks you what you did and why... over and
over...one thing after another... if you miss a
keyword in an ACL.... if you pause... if you use the
question mark... he asks why and if you don't know he
easily suggest the CCO and only the CCO...
Awesome...!!!!
Excellent one-on-one tutelege and advisement - such
interactivity are rare... and none have I yet to
experience are this intent or so genuine...
The man has one attention and it is his students...
never does his phone ring, his site is secret he gives
it only to students who are immediately attending
class...
For the time you are with him, he owns you and you
know it... Each day he sizes you up, cuts you down
and chides on what you did, did not do, or could do
better...
He is truly masterful in the art of instruction...
His classes are priced fairly and competitively -
$8000.00 for 3-weeks or just $2800.00 for one week
such as a week of mock labs...
He has one and two week options, but strongly
recommends that serious students take the 3-week if
they can manage it any way possible...
For the three week students they also get another week
of rack access...
$10,800.00 will buy you 5 Weeks of Heinzware.... And
apparently IF you survive the experience you will get
a T-shirt as well...
4 Weeks instructor lead - ok instructor over your
shoulder watching everything you do and every move you
make.... and taunting you to make you ask yourself
why, what for, what are you going to accomlish by your
moves in this evil game of Cat and Mouse...
I've just never seen such attention... no
distractions...
Just you... the rack.... and the Evil Bastard watching
over your screen... in cruel delight...
Everything one might expect from a CCIE #1561...
When he took his students to meet Jeff Doyle in
person... the student said that Heinz told them... he
did not have time to be concerned with such "HIGH
NUMBERED" CCIE's... jokingly... but the truth
palpatable... Heinz is a legend and if you ever meet
his and encounter his instruction you'd know why...
Not many instructors today can boast the success of
Heinz.... there is a reason...
He is a one stop shop. Others can be end-to-end....
but their students sometimes find their way into his
classes and when they do they pass the lab... and it
inevitably is... THE END for them... I have yet to
find a person who needed other instruction AFTER they
attnded Heinz and those that cite him will tell you
plainly... Heinz is the "WHY".
Each and every time... there's simply no other
answer...
Others barely have time to give you... Heinz takes
everything from you... but he gives you time and
attention... and he remembers... everyone and
everything, what they did, their style and
character... He's an elephant with his memory...
And yet... so humble and down to earth...
It not only feels and tastes like one-on-one
instruction.... simply take it for what it is...
ONE-ON-ONE instruction...
Who can even compete with that... others can try but
let's be honest - tutelege of this caliber is really
the end of the rainbow...
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