Re: Re: The demise of Indoor FF

From: Fred or Judy Rash <frash_at_chartertn.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:06:58 -0400

  John, as soon as I get my cloning device ready, I'm going to run you,
DeLoach, and Buxton through it ---- several times each. <GRIN>

Fred Rash (from a previous generation from you guys)


On 10/11/2010 11:54 AM, John Kagan wrote:
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> I'm one of the ones who believe that Indoor FF doesn't need a 21st
> century makeover to become cool or appealing. It already is cool and
> appealing. It's not like we're the Society of Butter Churners, or
> whatever the heck else they did in the old days. We just need to make
> more people aware of it, and give them a way to join.
>
> You are spot on about SO. It's a fifty thousand person Indoor FF
> recruiting opportunity. Right now, about 49,990 don't know we exist.
> We can't sit back and consider SO to be their exposure to Indoor.
>
> I did a demonstration before the awards ceremony at a local SO
> regional last year. Nothing major, just a 5 minute flight and a
> rambling speech on the microphone. When I was done, about twenty kids
> and coaches came down from the bleachers to talk and ask questions. I
> handed out sheets with Internet resources and such. Just the other day
> I ran across a thread on one of the SO sites from a kid who was there
> asking about Indoor FF and how to get into it.
>
> Exposure works. And your point about giving them the rest of the path
> to start is just as important. This includes getting flying sites
> (definitely a catch-22 with participation levels) and having
> self-start resources available.
>
> It also requires beginner events, like the ones you mentioned you
> enjoy flying. Which brings up the recurring topic of how to keep
> beginner events appealing to beginners.
>
> Rather than complaining about how experts always ruin beginner events,
> Buxton, DeLoach, and I came up with the idea of the LPP Pro/Am. On
> it's first try we had 25 sign up and 15 actually show up and participate.
>
> How many will continue? J.P. Kish was so enthusiastic about his
> experience, if he doesn't return next year with his own LPP I'll eat
> my hat. Elizabeth He has been shanghaied by the Tysons and will
> possibly become the first girl to make the Junior F1D team. Ken Achee
> has been hooked. The list goes on.
>
> Indoor FF is not going to die, so we can quit lamenting. It's not a
> good look anyway -- who wants to take up an activity whose own
> participants think is boring, old, and about to expire.
>
> We do, however, have the power to increase our numbers. Which will
> make it more fun, and help with things like getting sites to fly in.
>
> Also, let's quit bashing "expert" events, like the proposed 1/2A.
> Beginner events are the path, and expert events are the lure. If Delta
> Darts had been my only exposure to Indoor FF, I wouldn't be here
> writing this today.
>
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