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

[Pete Cosky]

I'll get in touch with Rick....thanks Arch.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Archie Stafford 
  To: General pattern discussion 
  Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] St. Clairesville Contest and "Grow Pattern"thought


  Pete


  If you and Rick pick a date, i'll be happy to help with a primer. 


  Arch

  Sent from my iPhone

  On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Bob Wilson <wilsorc at gmail.com> wrote:


    Hi Mike,
    I really wanted to attend the St. Louis event, but family events wouldn't allow it.  Glad to hear you guys had a great time.
    Look forward to seeing you all at St. Charles next weekend.

    Bob


    On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, mike mueller <mups1953 at yahoo.com> wrote:

       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
      > came to the
      > 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
      > the impact would be
      > huge I think.
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      > Thoughts???
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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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