[NSRCA-dist8] Judging Seminar

[J N Hiller]

Hi Gordon.
I'm not getting any flying weather to speak of this spring and have decided
not to go to the scale contest in Snohomish that weekend.
As much as I detest the drive to Portland I'd probably attend the judging
seminar.
Before replying I checked the NSRCA judging section and the new power point
documents aren’t available yet and it the test / answer sheets appear to be
the old ones. The AMA rules are there but It appears they no longer marks
paragraphs that have been changed making it more difficult to casually scan
the document when refreshing ones memory.
As I remember there were some cleanup changes and of course the ever present
snap roll clarification. Most notable was radius judging where the first R
in a maneuver having multiple R elements doesn't set the judging criteria.
As I understand it, each R is to be judged as they deviate from the
previous, each and every time.
Anyway what ever works for you guys is OK for me.
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Gordon Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:46 PM
To: AK, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-dist8] Judging Seminar

All,

Thanks for the input. I know this is not an ideal time and its stuck between
two contest weekends and that does make it hard to attend. At this point I
am trying to gain input from you all as to who would attend to see if its
worth holding the session. Gary is willing and has worked with Ray to secure
a location (thanks guys!) so we can pull this off but it does not sound like
those of you who have responded would attend, let me know if I am wrong. I
will reach out to some of the other pilots via email and see if we can get
enough attendance to justify the effort.

The option that Mike discussed below does make sense. The material you need
to study is on the NSRCA web site and if people did the prep work we could
have an open discussion at the Boise contest. The thing I like about the
sessions is the open discussions and group interaction, this is missing in
the online model. I am not sure how big a block of time we could get on
Saturday night or where to hold the discussion? any ideas?

Lets hear your thoughts on this idea...

--Gordon

On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:46 AM, astropuppy wrote:



"Mr. Everything Riggs" my wife use to say that about me! But that’s a
another story.

Travelling for a non-contest event really stinks no matter how you do it.
With that said, my suggestion would be for all us new people to study and be
ready to take the test in Boise. Then we could ask current judges questions
and be ready to at least judge sportsman.

If the weather is nice the Saturday of the Boise contest, I fully expect to
have upwards of 10 entries in Sportsman. If nobody from outside the club
enters, I will just have club members judge, but I really don't want to
screw up somebody who has traveled to our contest. I also expect as the
rounds progress sportsman participation will drop off. Again, if its only
club members I'll let them decide when to call it a contest. Last August we
flew three rounds and called it a day. Another idea is to run two classes of
sportsman, fun seekers and points seekers. Using real judges for the points
seekers and club member judges for the fun seekers.  FYI Tim: If the weather
doesn't improve for practicing I'm going to be flying Sportsman.

Seriously how many hours do Judging Seminars take? Having never been to one
I'd like to know.


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Tim < tstebbins at gmail.com
<mailto:tstebbins at gmail.com> > wrote:
>
> One other suggestion maybe to have a judges training session Friday and
Saturday evenings in Boise.   Three of us that will be new judges this year
will be at that meet (myself, Scott, and Mr. Everything Riggs).
>
> On Apr 26, 2011, at 2:02 AM, J N Hiller wrote:
>
> Three weekends in a row kind of sucks.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
<mailto:nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org>  [mailto:
nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
<mailto:nsrca-dist8-bounces at lists.nsrca.org> ]On Behalf Of Gordon Anderson
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 7:46 PM
> To: AK, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY
> Subject: [NSRCA-dist8] Judging Seminar
>
> All,
>
> Please let me know what you think about holding Judging Seminar May the
21st. Gary McClellan contacted me and he is willing to teach the class and
he has worked with Ray Gauthier to gain access to a room at Pioneer Pacific
College  in Wilsonville Oregon.
> This year we have new AMA sequences and this will be a good opportunity to
review all the changes. Please let me know if would be willing to attend
before we finalize the details.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Gordon
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