On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 1:21:55 PM UTC-4, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
On 08/13/2013 12:59 PM, Evan Ludeman wrote:

You're doing it wrong.



T8





Evan, this is exactly the answer I got when I brought it up two years

ago. Regardless of how I fly the other guys in the start cylinder are

still doing this. It will continue to happen until we replace the rules

with something even more complex, in the name of "safety" of course.

All the meanwhile we'll be sitting down having dinner and a beer at 5:30

in the afternoon complaining that the sport is dying and that no one

wants to go to contests... here is a bit of a news flash, the sport is

not dying of natural causes.. we're killing it!



Rant over...

Luke Szczepaniak

My opinion... none of the behavior described by the OP yields a significant competitive advantage.

There are many very smart, very consistently fast, very safe pilots in this sport. Those are my role models and I recommend that others choose likewise.

I may go pull flight logs from 18s and look at the starts. I bet I can name in advance a couple of guys with competition records to swoon over who weren't tying their gliders in knots before the start.

Evan Ludeman / T8