Community Training Kit

[DWeb]

Has the forum thought of or attempted to possibly do what i'll call 'Community Training Kit'
Essentially, a kit that has say a small lock pick set and a few training locks.
for newcomers, they could get on a list to get the kit.
let say i obtain the box. I do my training, learn or improve my skills, and I send it to the next person on the list.
lets say I have a lock that i've used for my own training and I might add a lock to the box before i send it off.
maybe have a few 'kits' beginner, mid level and advanced. the beginner kit would only have the necessary pick set like 5 or 7 piece, and a transparent lock. someone like me, gets on the list. for that kit. i only can keep it for 7 to 10 days. at day 5, i confirm with the next person on the list they are ready to receive it (maybe they've already gotten their own and no longer want it) I get their address, and ship it somewhere between then and 10 days. any person should not have the kit any longer than 10 days, maybe even as little as 5 days for the beginner kit.

has an idea like this come around.
i'm guessing the only issue would be newcomer like me has no umm 'cred' or reputation here.

[Squelchtone]

Hi and welcome to the forum,

That's an interesting idea, and I think it may have been tried on another forum, but I don't remember the level of participation or success. There are some fellas on youtube who make difficult to pick locks for each other and mail them back and fourth. Sending picks from new picker to new picker might be risky as many new pickers are rough on their tools and tend to bend them or even break the tips right off.

Our hobby actually has something that does the reverse of mailing a kit to someone, where we bring the locks, picks, and training to a location near you. There is a club called TOOOL (The Open Organization Of Lockpickers) as well as other groups around the US, Australia, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Typically you can find a lock picking village at a Maker Faire, hacker conferences like DEFCON, Derbycon, and HOPE, or regional monthly meetings like the kind TOOOL has in many cities. Their website is http://toool.us Fill out your profile and let us know where you're from, there may be a member or meeting near you.

In fact, I'm going to move this to Locksport Local, perhaps you will find a meeting or others interested in starting one.
Squelchtone

[DWeb]

nice, thanks for the tip
of course feel free to move if there is a better category for this

i agree the 'newbie' picker part. your probably right, could mean replacing picks occasionally.

[DWeb]

I'm 2 hours away from any TOOOL location..

[Squelchtone]

I'm 2 hours away from any TOOOL location..

That's not terrible. For me to go to the Boston meeting is 1.5 hour drive. When I lived in Boston and ran that meeting it was a 15 minute drive to the hacker space where it was held.

Squelchtone