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kleggo

2005 nationals unofficial standings

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Hi andre,

I only do 8-way these days. we did not start really as a team just more a group that i was coaching.

we lost a team member with a broken leg 3 weeks before we went to russia so we had our videoman jumping with us (pd smith, you may remember him from indonesia/eloy) and we had denis dodonov coaching and doing video and also another member of his team sergei also on video as we tended to do the 8-way and then break into 2 4-ways each with a videoman.

the idea of the week was to do some 8-way but also skills as well and also just for the fun of doing crw from an mi-8.

progress was made during the week but the quickest sort of times was 70/80 secondss, so still a long way to go.

we won't be competing at our nationals as they are being held over a week this year as opposed to weekends in recent years and nobody has enough leave left to do the full week.

one of the women on my team is also on a rotations team but their team leader is in the military and has been sent to iraq for most of this year so they have not really been training. last year they were scoring 8/9 and had been hoping to improve on that this year. there are no other rotation/8-way teams in any form of serious training. we have a new sequential team that may be competing at the world meet in russia next year but that is about it on the competition front.

you may be interested to know that the russians dont bother training for rotations now as they got up to scoring 23 and figured they couldn't go much faster.

regards
mark

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Hey Kleggo,

4 Play is NOT Allen's team from FL. It is Kirk VanZandt's team. Allen was filling in for 4 Play's injured pilot, Bill Runyon.-- Bill was injured at home, 2 weeks prior to nationals. He is recovering well. Thanx, Allen, for being part of the team on such short notice.
Dean

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