While the USHPA Competition Workgroup has been busy doing its work "reforming" the competition system, it is instructive to reflect on what really keeps the whole system afloat. Without some dedicated individuals there would not be any hang gliding competitions at all. They are the ones that actually put competitions together, and they receive no support from the USHPA.

If the USHPA wants to have any competitions system at all then it had better consider how its action impact the important people and whether they are motivated to continue putting on hang gliding competitions given the significant burdens that are projected to be added to their tasks.

If I was changing a system that depended on just a few individuals to actually work I would be very concerned about how they were doing and what I was doing to make their life better. That doesn't seem to be any consideration of this on the part of the Workgroup. Maybe they think that there are special meet organizer growing trees out here.

I would love to see the USHPA reach out in a meaningful way to David Glover, Steve Kroop, Jamie Shelden, Dustin Martin, James Tindle, and Adam Elchin. Let's see the support.