WPP,
Thank you for the update: A most informative post.
Good luck in your position of CD. With a good support team, and hopefully Qld
weather back to normal, how can you go wrong ... go wrong .... go wrong? May
you have a great comp.
Re egos - maybe it is only a matter of time?
Just spent (another) week competing with Matthew Scutter, at Horsham Week. {A
very successful - 4 days flown - but difficult (weather wise), competition
:Check out the dedicated Horsham Week web site for results and details.} No
problems here with ego, or Matthew's approach to the sport - other competitors
at Kingaroy watch out!
A great pity that no other "Junior" competed in this event. For the record, I
think I am right in saying that there is an ongoing policy of subsidised entry
(free?), to this event for juniors.
Anyway, it is certain that Matthew gained a lot of valuable experience from
being there, which will make him even harder to catch: He gains - every other
junior losers.
Why?
It is now an acknowledged fact, that to be ultimately successful - the elite of
the elite - in (almost?), any endeavour, the first step is that participant
must put in 10,000 hours of MEANINGFUL practice!!! Basically "talent" does not
enter into the equation - but there are a hell of a lot of "other factors"!
Check out such books as "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, or "Bounce" by Matthew
Syed - there are others - for an overview to gain some insight into this. If
you are a AFL fan, have a read of Collingwood's Nathan Buckley's biography "All
I Can Be" for his story to football success, and verification of the theory -
of which he seems to be blissfully ignorant!
Cheers,
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Woolley
To: AUS Soaring
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 6:17 PM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] JoeyGlide 2011
G’day Race Fans!
After another successful junior nationals – thanks to Angus ‘Gus’ Stewart
(CD), ‘Super John’ Hudson and his hard working team at the Waikerie Gliding
Club. I thought I had better get started early to try and top another great
event! Lead by a positive junior pilots meeting in December 2010, it was my
job to put it all into action. What was said at this meeting? That JoeyGlide
was to be held in Queensland for the first time since the event began in 2004,
and the rest was up to the juniors to decide: Dates and configuration of the
gliders.
So after two months of ringing around, writing e-mails, and generally
gathering the thoughts and views of the juniors for their preferences – it’s
with my pleasure that I can announce that the 8th Australian Junior Gliding
Nationals will be held at the Kingaroy airfield! Particular thanks of course
must go to the members at the Kingaroy Soaring Club
(www.kingaroysoaring.com.au) for their support and enthusiasm! I’d also like
to thank Ross McLean, Anita Taylor and their positive sports committee for
Australian Gliding. They’ve both been of great help to ensure that our
competition is held at the best time for us all, at the chosen site and not at
conflicting times to the other senior nationals. So please join in thanking
these key people to make our competition an amazing event!
I’ve started the organisation early so to help the juniors plan well ahead,
set goals, save money, etc. JG every year is a success, regardless of numbers.
Why? It’s the amazing culture that it brings, everyone is there to have a
good time. As John Hudson described from the JG10 comp, “It’s a senior
nationals really, great people but all without the ego’s!”. The juniors are an
extremely safety conscious lot of pilots, as they seem to be really concerned
how they’re looked upon by their senior peers – I guarantee you’ll all be very
impressed of you’re able to make it to JoeyGlide for a look!
The juicy stuff!
*WHEN: 11-17th December, 2011 – with the practice day on the 10th.
*WHERE: Kingaroy Gliding Club (www.kingaroysoaring.com.au), Queensland.
*WHO (Competing): Juniors of 30 years of age or less at the start of the
competition. However, to be declared the National champion and to be able to
gain selection, you must be 25 years of age or less at the start of the
competition.
*WHO (Coaching): Juniors from solo standard, through to 30 years of age or
less at the start of the competition.
*WHAT (Competing Class): Sports class gliders limited to 15m wingspan.
*WHAT (Competing Configuration): JoeyGlide will be a water ballasted
competition using the lightly adjusted handicaps from the German Aero Club
(read: OLC) – as used successfully at JoeyGlide 2007.
*WHAT (Coaching): In gliders from DUO-Discus performance to IS-28’s, with
local and national coaches. More information to come on this great opportunity
as it comes to hand!
*WHY: Because we can!
We’re all looking forward to sharing this great event with you. So please
check out the Soaring Australia magazine for more information, the March issue
has the first of NINE articles in relation to JoeyGlide!
Best Regards,
Adam Woolley
Contest Director
0438784688
P.s. Are you a junior that I’m not aware about? If so, check out
www.joeyglide.com.au and join up to our own mailing list. A lot of the
information to JoeyGlide is also found at the facebook group ‘JoeyGlide 2011’ –
where we now have 115 members (this group is also open to all National
Coaches)!!!
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