Motivation. . . .

[White, Chris]

Gotta go with Verne on this one.  I'm always giving Russell Honea a hard line about how I love to fly in front of judges and how the competition motivates me to fly my very best, but....  Last year we made a point of scheduling a vacation trip to the inlaws, towing my trailer from Tulsa to Cincinatti just to make the D4 Championship.  Why....? Because my Chicago pattern buddies (who I'd only met in my first year at Nats and St Louis and KC) had said what a great contest it was....Well, it was even better than I expected...not only did I meet a bunch of new great guys that I'd only read or heard about, but it was well-run and the extra activities and the food (Amy & crew) and the music (Bob Kane the DJ) , and the night fly.  Well, I think you get the picture....  24 hours driving and memories to last a lifetime.  (Hitting the hi-line wires and surviving to fly, Bob Kane losing the canopy from the El Nino in the brush, and with help, finding it. Dave Lockhart doing interminable hovers in a hailstorm of fireworks.... Frankie blasting away with his YS45 piped F20 with retracts doing his screaming flybys....and of course all the good competition beforehand.)  I had good times at every contest...its the people and the competition for me....
 
Thanks to all of you who've made it fun!  
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Verne Koester
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:16 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Motivation. . . .


Competition and good friends with a common interest.
 
Verne
 
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Keith  <mailto:khoard at midsouth.rr.com> Hoard 
To: NSRCA Mailing List <mailto:discussion at nsrca.org>  
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:02 AM
Subject: Motivation. . . .


As I'm sitting here weighing several variables for this weekend; weather forecast, hotel cost, fuel prices, ect. . . . . 

 

I would like to know what is the number one Motivating Factor that gets you up off your duff to pack up all of your pattern toys, drive 5-8 hours, shell out several hundred $$'s, risk a rain-out, then drive 5-8 hours back home Sunday night, get home at 2a.m., to start your work week all over again on Monday.

 

What is the top thought in your mind as you anticipate going to a contest . . . is it the chicks?  The big money prizes?  Is it the thought of finally beating someone you've been trying to get the upper hand for years?  The oohhhs and ahhhhs you're hoping to get from your new 2005 model year Pattern Ship??  Figure out how well my new airplane flies?  See if my 5-year old pattern plane still "has it"??

 

I guess what I'm trying to get here is: What gets you to go to a contest 5-8 hours away vs. spending the weekend at your local field or just driving to visit your flying friends at their local field?

 

 

 

Keith L. Hoard

Cordova, TN

khoard at midsouth.rr.com

 

 

 

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