{"id":3418,"date":"2026-03-08T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:38:47","slug":"ricoma-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/08\/ricoma-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricoma Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finished my final Ricoma Training and it was awesome!  There were supposed to be 3 other students in the class, and well &#8211; they were no-shows so it was just me and the instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was great because he asked me what I wanted to focus on and really work on.  I immediately said hats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was only a  few minutes in when he said to show him my hopped hat that was ready to go.  &#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;  What?  Within minutes he showed me how to &#8220;Properly&#8221; &#8216;hoop a hat&#8217; and we were off to the races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Running test designs, and a simple &#8216;truckers&#8217; hat &#8211; came out 100% perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I learned a ton over the 3 hour class, and it was nice to have the one-on-one trainign for sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked a lot of questions, got a lot of answers and really focused in on doing things right.  There is a lot I did not know &#8211; WOW!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And check out <strong>&#8220;3-D Puff Embroidery&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; that is the next thing I am going to learn, it is really &#8220;The new thing&#8221; in embroidery.  Looks super awesome!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 67 \u2014 The power of reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look back only<br>to learn forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>TaLi Merchendise<\/em><\/strong><em> \u2013 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/talimerch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/talimerch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Custom embroidery, clothing, &amp; more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your brand isn\u2019t ordinary, your merch shouldn\u2019t be either. Get premium embroidery from TaLi Merch and make every impression unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my final Ricoma Training and it was awesome! There were supposed to be 3 other students in the class, and well &#8211; they were no-shows so it was just me and the instructor. It was great because he asked me what I wanted to focus on and really work on. I immediately said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}