Rules Survey

[Don Ramsey]

Last day (Monday Jun 6) for comments or additions to the rules survey (view on http://www.nsrca.org/competition/judging/judging.htm ).  There are now pro and con agruments for keeping the weight limits.

Don
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lance Van Nostrand 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Cc: Troy Newman 
  Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:51 PM
  Subject: Flying the new sequences


  At the Broken Arrow contest a bunch of the flyers got together and reviewed the new proposals.  Dan Curtis flew the Intermediate sequences (options A & B) and I (Lance) flew the Advanced.  Bill Ahrens was supposed to fly the Masters, but he was too chicken to do it in the dark.  Imagine that.  Here are some comments from the group for the Sportsman thru Advanced.  For Masters, we never had the chance to discuss as a group so those comments are purely mine.

  First, let me say that the work put into these is evident and exceptional.  There isn't really a bad solution and both options are good.  Thanks to everyone involved.  It's really a situation where choosing means being very picky, so everyone involved should be proud of the options they created.  I can see advantages/disadvantages to manuvers in these sequences, but will not use this note to go to that detail.  Just the factors that tipped the balance.

  sportsman:
  Option A was the group choice only because B has the vertical upline on center and many underpowered sportsman planes can't do this.  We already see plenty of trouble with stall turns and in a stall turn you don't have to be able to push out, just fall.

  Intermediate:
  Option B was the choice because the 2 outside loops + Cuban 8 + double immelman made the sequence longer in time at essentially the same Kfactor.  B will move better at big contests and introduces a shark's tooth, which we haven't seen in pattern maybe ever.

  Advanced:
  Option B mostly because we need a cuban 8 before masters (it combines so many elements) and partly because the 2 outside loops in A, although excellent skill builders can kind of long to watch.

  Masters 2007: 
  My choice: Option B because it looks way more fun and has new stuff (8 point roll, figure M).  Also, the 1 1/2 downline snap in A is sure to cause controversy AGAIN.

  Masters 2009:
  My choice: Option A. this is a hard one because A continues the 8 pt roll, but it has lots of cool stuff.  the 1 1/2 snap is in both A & B so that can't be differentiator.  Option B just seems more normal (except for the "spring coil" which I don't know what it is).  Overall option A has an interesting cuban and avalanche, and 8 sided loop, reversed spins, etc.  It will look very different.

  --Lance
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