<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #800080"><div>Not the "Compulsories", Ed...<br></div><div><br></div><div>They do figures that are required, and are judged on a 10-point scale.</div><div><br></div><div>However, in terms of spectator interest, I would say our patterns are analogous to the compulsories in figure skating. I have thought about that before. Other than the skater falling over, I would have no idea how to judge skating. Same for most folks watching us fly.</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span style="color: #8b8b8b;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Phil Spelt, KCRC Emeritus</span style="font-size: 14px;"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">AMA 1294, Scientific Leader Member</span style="font-size: 14px;"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">SPA L-18, Board Member</span style="font-size: 14px;"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Oliver Springs, TN (865) 435-1476v (865) 604-0541c</span style="font-size: 14px;"></strong></em></span><br><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span style="font-size: 10px;"></span style="font-size: 11px;"></span style="font-size: 12px;"></span style="font-size: 13px;"></span style="color: #8b8b8b;"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></div style="text-align: left;"></div style="text-align: center;"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"></span class="signature-truncate"><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
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<div>I was speaking in terms of how exciting it is to watch, not the "performance" itself. Figure skating is closer to IMAC freestyle.</div>
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On Sep 19, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Peter Vogel <<a href="mailto:vogel.peter@gmail.com" target="_blank">vogel.peter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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