Re: AMA indoor beginners class

From: Mark <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:53:06 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, LeRoy C Cordes
<lcordes_at_...> wrote:
> Not to be a wet blanket - BUT - the efforts being shared here are
all
> well and good but I've seen the same thing so many times in other
> disciplines - let's make an entry level event. You make it and then
> don't put any restrictions on it (which is quite hard to do) - then
the "old" guys start playing with it and off it goes AGAIN !>>
snip..
 
> > With all due respect to Mark B. (and just how much is that?) I
see the
> > efforts to create "beginner class" designs and rules a futile
> > effort.
> > Jim Ladwig, Minneapolis, MN


Jim, Leroy, and Don,
It now appears I need to defend something I didn't even say on this
list, IIRC. In a sidebar Yahoo Group (which two of you didn't join) I
did float the idea of a simple one-design beginner event where no
flyer who had ever won any indoor duration event was allowed to
compete in it. I can't think of any examples of this being really
tried, (but maybe it has.)

But yes, I UNDERSTAND HOW AND WHY many traditional "beginner" events
have morphed into something else. I do question the pretention
behind ever *calling* something a "beginner event" when it is then
thrown open to anyone in the same contest.

No need to worry about me--I won't further threaten anyone with such
heresy. There probably aren't enough real beginners to have a go
anyhow.
Mark
Received on Thu Jun 15 2006 - 14:53:47 CEST