John, I was just rattling your cage:-) I know how sensitive you're about the
line issue. :-)
Yes, there is nothing in the book, but for one reason or another National
courses are lined outside. I don't care one way or another (maybe I should, I
cone more at the big events), but this is the fact. I thought I'll point it out
mainly to see how quickly John will take the bait:-)
Boris (now in trouble with Kelly's:-))
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> " And to make it a National level course the lines have to be outside of
> cones. (Hi John:-))))"
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From: John Kelly <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
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> There's NOTHING in the National rules or previous Supps which spells out
> the exact location of the lines. Having seen National courses lined on the
> inboard side and the outboard side in the past, I'd say you have to be
> ready for whatever happens.
> As for lines outboard, I still vividly remember when one designer
> put his lines four or five FEET outboard of the course on a right-hands
> turn. That single pylon there looked for all the world like a lost child.
> The reason for this was the designer was so pooped after setting up the
> course, he sat on the back of a pickup and trailed the marker device. The
> turn was tighter than the pickup truck could make. So they just let it fall
> whereever it went.
> We have come a long way in National course design despite some
> folks wanting to re-invent gymkhanas. Despite that, there was a glitch on
> last year's North course that was a trap for a beginner and he flipped.
> That part was a fast section followed by a three-cone slalom. And there was
> a bump at the third one. He flipped his E Stocker on the third one. Don't
> look for this on the map as the course was changed to solve another problem
> and we got the flipper deal instead. The good news is the driver was
> uninjured.
> Just because National does something does not make it right, IMHO.
> But then I remember when the wobble rule for pylons was once in effect in
> other parts of the country. (If you THINK you saw the pylon wiggle, you
> send in a pylon count! The good news is we now have the all the way down or
> out rule now but it took a long time to convince our friends this was the
> way to go.) Gradually, our National courses have been improving, a lot,
> especially since the beginning. And even in the past 15 years.
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> --John Kelly
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