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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 10:36, Aimee Beveridge via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > We used to set up a rebelay course. We gave carabiners to everyone who > completed it. It could be done this year. > > The limitations: a site that has decent trees, volunteers to set it up and > run it, and securing prizes. Anybody interested? > > -Aimee > > > >> On Aug 31, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers >> <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: >> >> Cons-- >> >> The advantage of the traditional obstacle-course SpeleOlympics is that it is >> a good spectator event at a specific location and at a particular time. (It >> would be an even better one if the schedule was well announced and adhered >> to.) Some of the components of proposed SuperSpeleOlympics not good >> spectator events,especially CaveSim, and they'd be scattered around the site. >> >> Any components that aren't already occurring separately would require >> additional workers and might take help away from the existing contests. >> >> People would likely treat a rebelay course that is part of a contest as a >> race for time, and that is not safe when complicated vertical work is >> involved, if only because it might encourage bad habits in the real thing. >> >> With vertical and surveying components, it would tend to exclude new young >> cavers, whose enthusiasm is what makes the traditional obstacle-course race >> work. >> >> How would overall winners be determined? >> >> I imagine a lot of potential contestants would just think the whole thing >> was more trouble and time-consuming than it was worth. It's supposed to be a >> party, after all. How many people participate in more than two of the >> traditional contests? >> ---------------------- >> Seems like most of the components happen anyway, and people can just pick >> and choose what they're interested in. Why try to make it overly organized? >> >> A rebelay course (or at least knot-passing and change-over, which require >> simpler rigging) for training might be nice, but judging by the times the >> climbing contest has tended to get its act together, I wonder whether the >> talent to run an additional vertical thing is available. >> >> --Mixon >> ---------------------------------------- >> True bravery is shown by performing without witnesses what one might be >> capable of doing before all the world. >> ---------------------------------------- >> You may "reply" to the address this message >> (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) >> came from, but for long-term use, save: >> Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu >> AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com >> Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ >> http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
