Ridecamp: Re: [RC] (RC) $$MONEY for NUTHIN'$$

Hi, again, y'all!

WOW!  I do believe I smacked the hornet's nest with THAT one!

To all who e-mailed me, Thank You.  I appreciate it.

Couple things here:

1)  Your sport IS in a growth situation--a big one.  There's no doubt of 
that, since I get to talk to a whole bunch of people getting into it every 
day.

2)  Some sort of structure IS going to be required simply to handle the load 
of folks wanting to play, and educating them to the sport's ways.

3)  The only people who have a vested interest in that is YOU.  How you do 
it is certainly up to only you.  Really!  I'm sure your sport will evolve as 
it is supposed to in the way it is supposed to, and most folks will be quite 
happy with the results.  Most things tend to work that way, anyway.

4)  I popped that idea out for y'all to simply take a peek at how some other 
folks handled it.  What you think of it is your own affair, and that's 
surely OK with me, but upon closer examination, y'all might find a useful 
thing or two in there.  Particularly in the structure of classes, money 
notwithstanding.  If y'all don't want prize money, then, by all means, don't 
have prize money!  Not an issue with ME!

One last thing---NO ONE has a lock on the toughest of equine sports.  Each 
horse, each rider, each combination thereof has their very own individual 
criteria of difficulty.  It cannot be lumped into one category and said that 
"THIS is the toughest!"   Each equine sport has its own degree of 
difficulty, each stresses their view of what's difficult, and each one 
thinks that theirs is the toughest.

It's just not so.  Look...if the horse is so complex that he has so many 
different sports in which he can excel , how on earth could a person believe 
that theirs is the "toughest"?  It just don't compute!  The variables are 
too great.  Methinks at times that it is the PEOPLE who are the problem.

The horse don't seem to mind much.



Karl
Dixie Midnight
No-Sweat vent pads
http://www.dixiemidnight.nv.switchboard.com
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