Mike Meier informed me on Saturday that it is likely the case that the USHPA will pay for most if not all of the Steve Wendt/Blue Sky scooter tow clinic at Wallaby Ranch this week. Mike had contacted them after he decided to bring Steve down for the clinic. The USHPA has a great policy of reimbursing scooter tow clinics put on by approved scooter tow clinic instructors if you provide them with enough information after the fact. They want to know how many folks attended the clinic (they are looking for instructors to attend the clinics).

The reimbursement policy is a good idea because it requires that the party putting on the clinic be organized enough to put one on and have the right instructor so that enough instructor-students come to the clinic so that the organizers can get reimbursed. They have to put the money up front to do the clinic, but this just makes it so they have some skin in the game. Successful clinics get rewarded and only successful ones.

This is one of the best aspects of USHPA's direct support for instruction.