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From: Jack Iafret < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sep 13, 2006 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] LSF discussion - some thoughts
To: tony estep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OK, my one comment.
Read my post of the History of LSF earlier in response to Chuck Anderson's post. I have been there and know what if means to be a an LSF person- are you? ( I am only an L IV and may never do the 8 hour slope to get LV because I don't care. That is the point- individual achievement).
LSF is kind of like a goal in the sky, only the strong will succeed. If it is watered down, what is the point.
The whole point in the LSF is to be under LSF 200 at this point in time (LSF 100 is done). What else could you ask for, to be one of the the best 200 in the world (LSF is a world organization).
You can only exceed the LSF goals if you present a program that is more difficult in the world of new technology, not worse.
If we were all equal, who would be the leaders?
IMHO,
Jack Iafret
Read my post of the History of LSF earlier in response to Chuck Anderson's post. I have been there and know what if means to be a an LSF person- are you? ( I am only an L IV and may never do the 8 hour slope to get LV because I don't care. That is the point- individual achievement).
LSF is kind of like a goal in the sky, only the strong will succeed. If it is watered down, what is the point.
The whole point in the LSF is to be under LSF 200 at this point in time (LSF 100 is done). What else could you ask for, to be one of the the best 200 in the world (LSF is a world organization).
You can only exceed the LSF goals if you present a program that is more difficult in the world of new technology, not worse.
If we were all equal, who would be the leaders?
IMHO,
Jack Iafret
On 9/13/06, tony estep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I may be wrong (probably am), but perhaps some of the unease in the world could be mitigated by one little change in the LSF rules, without changing any tasks at all.
The rules say: "requirements for the subsequent Levels may be achieved any time after the previous Level form has been postmarked..."
So you can't get credit for Level III, IV or V tasks until everything in Level II is done and sent off, etc.
Now just maybe if you relaxed this requirement, it might make some of the LSF dissidents happier. If a guy wanted to fly only thermal, for example, he could fly all his thermal tasks right up to the two-hour, and he could say, "Well, I have done the thermal requirements for Level V." Then maybe he'd be motivated to do some of the slope tasks, or the XC, or the contests or whatever.
The LSF could even give out separate little stickers for thermal, slope, XC, and contests.
This changes things very little, yet it addresses quite a few of the specific issues that have been raised on this thread.
Now I've made my one and only comment, and I will now shut up.
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