[NSRCA-discussion] One day contests

[Anthony Romano]

For a one day event to be appealing it has to be within a reasonable driving 
distance. That reduces your pilot pool to those within a two or three hour 
radius, excepting of course the truly dedicated. For some areas that isn't a 
factor but for the rest of country that is little help.
Sayre has always done two one day events for sportsman and from the few I 
have been to the numbers rarely varied much over the consecutive days. I am 
sure Terry can elaborate on this.
Other than the quantity of food and displacing the home club it is really 
not any more work to do a two day event.

Anthony


>From: Adrien L Terrenoire <amad2terry at juno.com>
>Reply-To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] OK it's time to stir 
>thingsup.	Where'sthebeef?
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:40:21 -0400
>
>Kelly:
>We have all ben there, done that. For a small percentage, a 1 day contest
>is a good idea. The real problem is weather. I hate to take the risk of
>traveling x miles for a 1 day contest that mey be rained out. At least
>with a 2 day you double the odds that you will get at least 1 day to fly.
>
>
>The solution for you is to make it a family thing. Get a tent, pop up
>camper, or hard top, whatever suites your budget, and take the family
>with you. Mom can kabitz with the other moms and grandmoms. The kids can
>run free, and will find others to run with, and when not flying, judging,
>or calling, you can still spend some quality time with all family
>members. We really do have a great time camping at most of the contest
>sites.
>
>Terry T.
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:59:24 -0400 Kelly Regan <kelly.regan2 at verizon.net>
>writes:
> > Just an observation from some one that has not flown in a
> > patter competition yet...
> >
> > The idea of a 2 day contest is a big commitment for me.
> > We have 3 children under 5 years old and my wife is a stay
> > at home mom. The only break she gets is on the weekends
> > when I am around to help.
> >
> > I have a hard time asking her to watch the kids all weekend
> > while I go fly and babysitters can be hit and miss.
> >
> > A one day contest would be wonderful for someone in my
> > situation, however I have no idea if this would work or draw
> > more contestants?
> >
> >
> > george w. kennie wrote:
> > > <<<<Has anyone got any stats on the effectivity of the pattern
> > > primers? I know of some new guys who’ve come into it this
> > way.>>>>
> > > Just by way of encouragement to those who may feel some degree of
> >
> > > frustration at their lack of results in trying to entice the local
> >
> > > genre to give pattern a try. In my local area, there are several
> > clubs
> > > that I hold memberships in and these people have watched me fly
> > > sequence upon sequence for about the last eight years.Some of
> > these
> > > individuals display some degree of interest/desire while others
> > view
> > > my efforts with outright disdain.
> > > My feeling is that there is not a heck of a lot you can do on and
> >
> > > individual basis to induce someone to apply themselves to the
> > pursuit
> > > of our passion.There has to already be some competitive/challenge
> >
> > > aspect to their basic personality that makes them want to conquer
> > the
> > > unknown difficulty eating away at the root of their psyche and if
> > it
> > > just happens to be pattern that fires up their competitive drive
> > at
> > > that particular time we may have discovered a possible
> > conscription.
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