Gary,
Damn spell checker.of course I meant "degenerating"!
Well said about practice. It took me a long time before I could build an EZB
less than 2 grams when I was starting out. That is precisely why we need
events like LPP and A-6..a shorter learning curve to competitive
respectability.
A perfect example of this occurred last weekend. Our buddy Jerry
Murphy-principally an outdoor flyer and fresh off a win in Coupe at the
Southwest Regionals-recently built his first indoor model in 30+ years (an
LPP). Four trim flights later (!!) he was within 10 seconds of first place
in a very competitive field of 8 flyers including myself, Rob Romash, Bill
Leppard and other "experts". He ended up in second place by just a handful
of seconds.
Long live LPP!
--Don
Aggie & Degenerate Speller
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From: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of bluezoograd
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 5:22 PM
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] A-6 and other events
These events are not "denigrating", but they may be "degenerating"
instead into low participation events for so-called experts. Remember,
the experts were beginners once. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice man, practice. Same thing with winning at the Kibbie Dome or
Johnson City, practice man, practice.
If one has the burning desire to win, becoming an expert certainly
becomes easier. Notice I said expert status doesn't necessarily come
faster. All the experts I know became experts by failing and finishing
down in the pack a lot at first.
Now I will get down off my soapbox and go back to building a
Hughes H-1. I want to "degenerate" into an expert scale model flyer. I
need only 22 more failures and then I might be ready to be classified
an expert by my competitors.
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