Re: [aus-soaring] Entry Criteria for World Championships

2003-07-22 Thread Craig Tuit
G'day Adam Give L a call at [EMAIL PROTECTED] she competed in the first event - Original Message - From: Adam Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: [aus-soaring] Entry Criteria for World Championships G'day All, Was wondering

[aus-soaring] Fwd: Winners - 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Robinson
In most sports it is recognised that to have continued success at the highest level that you need a strong junior base which also reflects the long term health of that sport. Great Britian junior pliots placed 1st, 2nd 5th in Standard class and 4th and 6th in Club class. Germany was not far

Re: [aus-soaring] Fwd: Winners - 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship

2003-07-22 Thread ANDREW WRIGHT
Peter My 2 cents worth. (For what its worth.) I recently saw my gliding club and the GFA spending lots of money on a radio advertising campaign with MMM. Their target audience was the 30 year old + male. The success of this campaign is yet to be determined but from what I

Re: [aus-soaring] Attracting younger members (was Fwd: Winners - 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship)

2003-07-22 Thread Jason Armistead
Peter I'm sure we'd all love to know the secret of the British and German successes in promoting junior soaring. If anyone finds out what they do so right, let us all know ! Probably a lot of it comes down to accessibility. Take Sydney with just over 4.2 million people. To get to Camden by

[aus-soaring] RE- Juniors

2003-07-22 Thread Sue Schluter
Adam Woolley and a gang of youngsters in Qld have started a Junior Soaring movement. Since Easter this year they have been putting together a group with the idea of having junior classes at competitions. From what I remember this is basically a 25 and under group. They are also looking at

Re: [aus-soaring] Fwd: Winners - 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship

2003-07-22 Thread Jason Armistead
Peter I'm sure we'd all love to know the secret of the British and German successes in promoting junior soaring. If anyone finds out what they do so right, let us all know ! Probably a lot of it comes down to accessibility. Take Sydney with just over 4.2 million people. To get to Camden by