[LASS Soaring] Practice makes for fun, winning doesn't hurt :-)

[GordySoar at aol.com]

A while back I wrote an article about why some guys don't fly  contests. Its 
called Interrogation of a Sport Flyer.  It explains that  practice is what 
makes contests fun, and its not winning that should be the goal  but rather doing 
the task as perfectly as you can.   Got this note  from a guy out West.
Gordy
 
 
Gordy,

I had to write and tell you about the contest  today.

We had killer weather , 60 degrees and light winds so we had  our Turkey 
shoot.

Our current president and another upper  level pilot flew expert and my 
Brother, myself and about 5 other guys were  flying sportsman. 5 min, 10 min, 10 
min, 10 min were the tasks with a runway  landing.

The Pres was flying his Sharon, the  other flew his Icon, My Brother was 
flying his Supra (not the worlds  heaviest) and I was flying my Ava.

End results were My Brother (who  swore he would never enter a contest but I 
have made him practice and he really  digs it now)
2239 points and a first place.

Me 2nd place with  1975 points.

Pres tied with me 1975 points but First place  Expert 
The other  expert 1938 points 2nd place  Expert.

I am really proud of my Brother taking a first, but what I  am really proud 
of is that I kept up with all these high dollar planes with an  RES...

There will be much gloating I guarantee...actually I got  lucky with some 
friendly birds and made my times and only blew one landing, but  I wanted to 
thank you for taking the time to help me learn how to practice. It  has made all 
the difference and being competative with these other planes on the  same day 
with this caliber of pilots means a great deal to me. 

It  almost takes the sting out of being told my job was eliminated...oh well 
more  time for practice and a chance to learn something  new...





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