Lots of great feedback here ! Thanks all !!
I am grateful that
Autopia is associated with the IDA and I believe
A/G is also.. Thank you guys/gals for helping to push this forward !
Perhaps someday, the Detailing Craft may be at the level as the pretty familiar "ASE" certifications, that we car geeks are familiar with.. Wonder how long it took those people to put it out there in such a way, that we pretty much know what ASE means ?
If I did the math right, it has been mentioned that this Detailing Certification idea started in 1989, with starts, stops, etc.. Well, that was 31 years ago..
No matter what happens and when,
-Nothing- will ever substitute for a world-class
Work Ethic and
Quality of Work.. You really have to
- want - to work at this level !
And to achieve this, it will take
years of hands-on time behind the tools, while all the time
learning, and
thinking of ways to perform more efficiently without sacrificing
one whit of one`s highest
Quality of Work..
My humble advice to anyone wanting to learn how to Detail has always been -- go find all your family, and Detail
all those vehicles to start.. It will be easier to learn and carefully experiment on family vehicles than on a Client`s vehicle.. It you really want to do this for a living, this, or a form of this, needs to happen.. Yes, it will be much less expensive than a class that costs around $500/day, and you can perhaps start saving up for all the supplies you will sometime have to front and then get a return on investment..
We all stand ready to impart advice from the decades+++ of our experiences to anyone who asks, but you have to go do the work first..
Dan F