Hi Phedon,
With due respect (and you deserve plenty) there is not a shortage of places
to fly indoor FF. In my hometown of Colorado Springs there are at least 25
buildings from about 20' to 90' in ceiling height. How many have been
approached about flying indoor FF? That I know of, only two in recent
years. One of the two is our current contest site, a 37' smooth ceiling
venue which we've be using 3-4x a year since 2001. I initiated the
negotiations with the site management back then and we still enjoy a great
relationship and good rental rates. It was never difficult; I just
negotiated a rate, booked the dates and promoted the contests which always
break even or make a small profit.
What are the chances that if I took the time to prospect the 23 other
buildings that we'd find another viable site? Very good, I'd wager.
Indoor Free Flight suffers primarily from a lack of right-brained
leadership. We've plenty of high I.Q. scientists and engineers, but many of
these guys lack communication skills.
Don D.
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From: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Phedon
Tsiknopoulos
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:09 PM
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Float on Gizmodo's frontpage
With no place to fly. Very S A D. The flyers are there, the sites are not.
Indoor flying is dying an accelarating death. I had to wait a whole YEAR IN
ORDER TO BREAK A RECORD. I may have to wait another year in order to break a
second one. Very S A D indeed. Ciao.
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From: Benjamin Saks <bensaks_at_gmail.com>
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 9:55:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Float on Gizmodo's frontpage
over 25,000 views. If 10% of the viewers build planes that would overwhelm
usic, too many planes. if 1% of those viewers build that 250 new people to
indoor.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:53 PM, ykleetx <ykleetx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
Ben, that's awesome.
Pretty soon, the film will headline at Sundance ...
-Kang
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<mailto:Indoor_Construction%40yahoogroups.com> , Benjamin Saks <bensaks_at_...>
wrote:
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> Today Indoor got some AMAZING publicity:
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> here is the link to read the article:
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http://gizmodo.com/#!5755037/watch-these-gorgeous-feather+like-planes-spit-i
n-gravitys-face
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>
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> BEN SAKS
> www.bensaks.com <http://www.bensaks.com/>
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