Agreed. Soaring shouldn't be presented as something for the porch swing and
croquet set, which would be, given the current unfortunate soaring
demographics, 'preaching to the choir'. We should make our pitch to the
NEXT generation of pilots - those in their 20's who don't yet know they want
to be glider pilots.

Although many will disagree, soaring is, in fact, an extreme adventure sport
in the mold of mountain climbing and skiing. We need to pitch it as such.

And yes, we can learn something from the Argentines.

Bill Daniels


"Doug" wrote in message
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Watching the SSA video was like watching videos of 50ish year old women
holding open canopies on 50ish SGS 2-33's for their 50ish husbands. Not
very exciting and certainly not good for promotion with younger people.

My 21 year old sons favorite video for excitement/promotion is the British
5-8 minute one of flying very close to ridges, low passes, aerobatics and
flying in very close formations. Unfortunately, I can't find the link
right now. The video is something along the lines of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjUIFgSZRU posted earlier and may have
been a long version of this video.

It got his attention whereas the SSA one kept his attention .............
for.............twenty...........seconds. Snore.

Doug

"Andy Blackburn" wrote in message
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At 12:00 10 August 2007, Alex8735 wrote:

or the sex sells approach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-ZIILtI2I

We have something to learn from the Argentinians.

9B