[NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern" thought

[Atwood, Mark]

I agree.  But I want to be clear that my point is that I'd like to see everyone on this list try to attend ONE more contest next year than they did this year. 

If your norm is to attend 2, try to get to three. Etc.  

The positive impact of that attendence is too long to list.  

Growth creates growth.  Hard to explain, but if we increase our own attendence, that's a form of growth.  That alone will make contests just a little better, a little more inviting, a little more fun. That makes those who are newly exposed to it even more interested.  It snowballs from there. 

-m
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern"	thought

 Very good points Mark.
 I think we need for the exisiting pilots to take someone who has potential under their wing. If half the existing guys could find 1 guy then we would be pretty healthy and grow.
                          Mike

--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com> wrote:

> From: Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern" thought
> To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 6:33 PM
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> First I want to thank Rick Cilles and
> his family and club members
> for putting on an absolutely fabulous contest this
> weekend.   This
> contest gets better and better each year with better
> attendance, a focus on good
> flying, good fun and GREAT food!! 
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> But during this contest we had some
> conversations about all
> the “how do we grow pattern” discussions and I
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> conclusion the one of the EASIEST ways, and one that we can
> completely control,
> is for those that are already IN pattern…to support
> pattern.  GO TO
> CONTESTS!!!!!   Seriously.    If
> we could get the
> people that already FLY pattern to just attend their local
> (regional) contests,
> the positive impacts would be huge and would go a long way
> to promote and
> encourage others to try it.  
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> Head count at local contests would go
> up helping them financially,
> reducing the amount of judging load on the participants
> (increasing their
> enjoyment and improving the diversity of scoring), and new
> sportsman pilots
> would feel like they attended a contest, not a local
> gathering.   
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> So how do we get all the people on
> this list to commit to 3
> or 4 contests a season??  Or maybe just increase the
> number they normally
> go to by 1??   If we all went to 1 more contest
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> huge I think. 
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> PS, A big thank you and congrats to
> Dave Johnstone our D4 VP
> for agreeing to fly P-11 at the last minute and flying it
> with only 1 day of
> practice.  Great job!! 
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