Bigger Issues

[Ron Van Putte]

On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:10 PM, Jerry Budd wrote:

> I don't believe that AMA "inadvertently" gave the IMAC folks control, 
> they (AMA) simply didn't have any choice in the matter.  The word I'm 
> getting is that the IMAC community was fully willing to break away 
> from AMA if that was what it was going to take to get what they (IMAC) 
> reasonably wanted.  At that point AMA is faced with having some 
> control or no control.  Saying AMA "inadvertently lost control" is at 
> best "spin" and at worst a lie.

I don't think it was because the IMAC people were willing to break away 
from AMA.  In conversations with contest board members, I determined 
that that, because the contest board members were predominantly 
pattern-oriented, they didn't understand/have strong feelings about 
proposals by IMAC, so they didn't want to vote against them.  As a 
result, the IMAC proposals for control over their maneuvers 
descriptions and sequences were passed by the contest board, without 
the AMA higher ups knowing about it.  I call that having "inadvertently 
lost control".  They had found out what they'd lost by the time I 
proposed the NSRCA-controlled annex system and were dead set against 
it; they didn't even allow the contest board to vote on it.

> I just don't understand why we (NSRCA) are willing to simply lie down 
> and get run over on this by AMA.
>
> Do you have any idea why?
>


As long as we operate under AMA, we are subject to the AMA rules and 
regulations.  My rule change proposal to have NSRCA control the 
maneuver descriptions and maneuver schedules was rejected by the AMA 
Executive Council.  Short of bolting AMA, I don't think NSRCA has any 
choice in this matter.  If that is a demonstration that "we (NSRCA) are 
willing to simply lie down and get run over on this by AMA", I guess 
we're stuck with it.

Ron Van Putte

>> As far as I can tell, NSRCA will do all the annex work and the 
>> contest board will only "sprinkle holy water" on our work.  I do not 
>> believe that the contest board members (most are NSRCA members) would 
>> ever put a veto on anything we wanted to do.  It's just that the AMA 
>> hierarchy is unwilling to relinquish any more control over the rule 
>> book than they' inadvertently gave the IMACers in the last cycle.  
>> The process WILL take longer, because it takes time to "sprinkle holy 
>> water".
>>
>> Ron Van Putte
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