Kayaking, ive been doing it a year and a half and I’ve been on every white water course in the country
Fast driving - although I’ve never raced competitively I’ve done around 50 track days and I was normally one of the fastest on circuit wet and dry (whilst not having the fastest car).
Computer stuff - worked in IT my whole life although this one isn’t for fun.
Lots of divers will tell you that buouancy control is difficult for most divers. Mine is absolutely good. I teach underwater photography and can hover within a fraction of an inch over a super silty bottom while swimming backwards and taking video without stirring up anything.
I have other instructors and professionals come to me for buoyancy training.
Lots of diver don’t know their buouancy sucks because they overweight themselves and stay neutral by having poor trim. They angle their feet downward and kick to stay neutral, which uses more air and causes them to silt out the dive site because they’re disturbing the water below and behind them, but never see it because they’re not facing that direction.
Most of my photography classes are actually teaching buouancy and advanced kicking because you really can’t do good macro shots from 8 feet away. You have to get to the subject of the shot, and have to be able to do it without stirring up the silt.
The frog kick, back kick, and helicopter turns are essential skills, but a lot of people have shitty or gimmicky fins, which makes it much harder. My thought on fins is that there’s 2 kinds - Jet Fins and Bad Fins. They were designed in the 60s and have never been matched.
Those big, heavy, stiff monsters are great, because you can do a reverse frog kick without them bending and pushing you forward while you’re getting them in position for the back kick.
I feel similar. I’m good at my profession (very white collar) and have managed to start my own business based on a good reputation in the industry, solid outcomes etc. I’m pretty good with my hands and troubleshooting so I’m handy in a crisis, good at solving problems. I read a lot about lots of different things, I listen to a lot of different music so I’m a good person to have on your trivia team. I’ve kept pretty fit into my late 30s so I’m up for any exercise or going for long rambling adventures.
But am I great, beyond my peers at any one particular thing? God no. And it bothers me. I wish I was really, really, really good at any one thing to the point someone would call me an expert, but I’m just not. I don’t have the energy, interest or focus to dedicate to one thing, so I’m just ‘okay’ to ‘pretty good’ at a tonne of things, but not necessarily better than any one person in the room.
This is actually a useful skill if you like traveling. I live in a van and previously did a lot of motorcycle camping and backpacking. I can always find somewhere to sleep for the night wherever I am.
If I was to base it off people I know IRL, it’d be video games. But against the collective of gamers on the internet, I don’t even rank. :/
Well… I guess that’s just skill. Experience, though… Many streamers and gamers are a fraction of my age, and I’ve been gaming since as far back as I remember.
Loading a vehicle or container for moving. I’ve had friends ask me to basically take over their move. And yeah, I may be a sucker for doing it, but I will save people hours and multiple trips while moving. I 3d tetris the hell out of a uhaul.
Height. I’m 6’6" on a good day. Top 99.897% in the world.
Reviving and programming REMBASS units. REmotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System was a old ass piece of equipment when I was using it 20 years ago in the Army. You’d have to program different channels using another old ass piece of equipment. And very often they’d drop their fills, or not appreciate having a new, fully charged battery in it. It would frustrate people to no end because they’d spend hours trying to get it going, and then I’d stroll up talking all nice and pretty to the gear and shit would just work for me.
I have decades of experience with improv storytelling. It’s a niche thing, and normally I use it for tabletop games, but in a pinch I can make up campfire stories, ghost stories, or whatever else and use the slightest cues from the audience to suit what they enjoy.
Shit. It works better in person because of facial expressions, body language, and other ways that help me come up with material as I go sweat but try me, I suppose.
President Lincoln didn’t die instantly. He died nine hours later. I’m not American, so that may be commonly taught to kids in the USA - but I remember being surprised by this when I learned about it as an adult.
The first woman to be executed by the US federal government was executed as a result of Lincoln’s assassination. Her name was Mary Surratt and her youngest son, Johnny, was considered Booth’s “right hand man”.
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