Wednesday, May 10, 2006
#9 - Finger Golf
Finger Golf™
You, of all people, should remember the Junkyard Golf Course and Community Building Event with Potluck (click link to download). After all, I wrote about it only 4 issues ago.
Well, seeing it's you, I knew you'd want to know what else I've been doing with the Junkyard Golf game. As you also know, I've been experiencing a kind of leap, quantum-wise, with this whole junkyard thing. It started when I decided to think about using Junkyard Golf for a community celebration. Which is weird, because Junkyard Golf, the very first time I played it, was part of a community celebration, remember, for a preschool in Palo Alto called "Leaping Lizards."
So, to answer your question, what else I've been doing with Junkyard Golf is inventing Finger Golf. Which is a simulation game for the business community. For business to build community. For business to help people learn about how to build a better business community. Probably right after breakfast on the first day of a conference.
I made it a version of Junkyard Golf that you can play on tabletops, in a banquet room. Sure, you can play it on tabletops in the cafeteria or on a long table for a few small groups, even. And, yes, of course, you can even play it on the floor. But the point is, it can be played right where and when people most need this kind of experience, and most can use this kind of learning. Early on. Right after a meal.
Then I found this place called Trash for Teaching that collected really "neat junk" - thick, colorful cardboard tubes, beautiful fabric and cardboard pieces, smooth chunks of wood, eye-blinding strips of Mylar. Who made it possible for me to make identical kits of really lovely junk - one kit for every table. Thus eliminating what seems to be the apparently overwhelmingly challenging requirement of people having to collect and pack their own junk.
And then, because it's designed to be played on tabletops, I decided to call it what I did, because your fingers are what you wind up playing with. In fact, you don't even need a golf club. In further fact, you can, with more control even than hitting a ball with a thing, sliding or even flicking a lid with your finger. Kind of as in shuffleboard. And then I made changed a little about the game to make it at least as relevant and discussion-worthy as it was fun - relevant to learning about building the business community.
And now, can you believe it, you can order your very own Finger Golf Community Building Game (from me, for the nonce). Soon, even, you'll be able to order it online. Now, you can even ask me to run the game with you. Soon, you'll have others to help you.
It's a business game, you know. A "simulation." It's fun you can take seriously.
Well, seeing it's you, I knew you'd want to know what else I've been doing with the Junkyard Golf game. As you also know, I've been experiencing a kind of leap, quantum-wise, with this whole junkyard thing. It started when I decided to think about using Junkyard Golf for a community celebration. Which is weird, because Junkyard Golf, the very first time I played it, was part of a community celebration, remember, for a preschool in Palo Alto called "Leaping Lizards."
So, to answer your question, what else I've been doing with Junkyard Golf is inventing Finger Golf. Which is a simulation game for the business community. For business to build community. For business to help people learn about how to build a better business community. Probably right after breakfast on the first day of a conference.
I made it a version of Junkyard Golf that you can play on tabletops, in a banquet room. Sure, you can play it on tabletops in the cafeteria or on a long table for a few small groups, even. And, yes, of course, you can even play it on the floor. But the point is, it can be played right where and when people most need this kind of experience, and most can use this kind of learning. Early on. Right after a meal.
Then I found this place called Trash for Teaching that collected really "neat junk" - thick, colorful cardboard tubes, beautiful fabric and cardboard pieces, smooth chunks of wood, eye-blinding strips of Mylar. Who made it possible for me to make identical kits of really lovely junk - one kit for every table. Thus eliminating what seems to be the apparently overwhelmingly challenging requirement of people having to collect and pack their own junk.
And then, because it's designed to be played on tabletops, I decided to call it what I did, because your fingers are what you wind up playing with. In fact, you don't even need a golf club. In further fact, you can, with more control even than hitting a ball with a thing, sliding or even flicking a lid with your finger. Kind of as in shuffleboard. And then I made changed a little about the game to make it at least as relevant and discussion-worthy as it was fun - relevant to learning about building the business community.
And now, can you believe it, you can order your very own Finger Golf Community Building Game (from me, for the nonce). Soon, even, you'll be able to order it online. Now, you can even ask me to run the game with you. Soon, you'll have others to help you.
It's a business game, you know. A "simulation." It's fun you can take seriously.
