The United States’ Independence Day is coming up in a little over a month, and parades are starting late next month.
The martial arts academy where I occasionally train and teach is building a float for this year’s parades. I remember hearing that they placed second or third in the parade competition last year, and it seems like they’re taking it up a notch and trying to win first place this year.
The owner and CEO of the academy is building the float himself, with the help of other staff and students. He came to visit me next door yesterday afternoon (we have neighboring businesses) so I could check out his progress.
He already has a bunch of pieces cut out, and he still has a bunch of panels of wood left for the rest of the design.
He was hard at work the entire day; when I went to visit him again late at night, after I had closed my family’s business, he had a lot more pieces cut out, and had already started putting some parts together.
I personally don’t really have much of a passion for sculpting, so I don’t really go out of my way to experience it. As a result, this is particularly novel and interesting to me to see the process behind something like this being built.
I’ll try and keep up with their progress on designing the parade float, and post progress photos here for those of you who might also be interested.