In Boy Scouts you have to earn various merit badges to advance to the
different levels of achievement.
How ever in each of the merit badge books you have a list of
requirements you must completed to earn that merit badge.
Usually about 7 or 8 steps. 3 or 4 of the steps are required but their
are several other steps that give the boy a choice in which steps he
would like to choose to finish the rest of the requirement. How about
keeping the original current requirements for LSF I-V. Creat one or two
optional requirements that would be just as time consuming, hard, and
challanging as the current standars. Thus giving the choice to the
participant while not diminishing the standards that those who have
already completed the levels have attained.
Personally I would vote for the levels just as they are, but this might
help draw more into the sport. Or maybe not.
No sport or organization I have ever been in has not had its percentage
of participants that want to change the calculations, rules or whatever.
Chad
Paul Emerson wrote:
"replacing competition requirement with non-competition tasks that
provide a
comparable level of challenge and skill development"
To re-create a "comparable level" to a competition there would have to
be a task that required you to launch on a specific day, at a specific
time, regardless of conditions, with an unexpected field repair, and a
gaggle of bozos to sucker you into some bad air, and a timer who may
or may not read the air correctly and give you bad advice, who will
talk too much and countdown all wrong, and stop the timer a full
second late, and at least a dozen peers to watch you launch and land,
wishing the best for you, but most hoping to beat you, and some
playing mind games and/or talking trash to you, and then there is the
added lust for an "I beat Gordy" pin, not to mention wanting to score
higher than all of your other club buddies, all this after having
spent the night in the back of your truck after driving 600 miles and
slowstick nightflying until 3 AM and you are getting a weird rash from
being out in the heat for three days . . .
;-)
Paul
LSF I
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