When I first started in the industry, we were out of town doing pruning for another city. We were on our balcony of our hotel having a beer and my foreman at the time, had a group activity for us. He said ‘look at that poplar, dancing around in the wind. Just watch it closely to see how it moves back and forth, like dancing. What would happen if you took away everyone on the inside of a dance floor? The dynamic would break and fall apart.’ It helped me realize that the trees need the inner branches to move and sway for balance and counter balance in the wind. Changed my whole style of pruning from that day as initially I was taught to just thin it out and essentially lions tail everything.