A few clips of the action.  Mike     

Mike, thanks for the video.
Wayne Buran
Anonymous Judge

Mike, thanks for the video. Marc does not often cruise the net, so I just sent him a copy of your viveo fror his purusal.  I attended a Carrier meet at that site (Rouge Park) several years ago while visiting Marc and scared the heck out of everybody when I got inverted with one of Mark's planes and ran it through two or three laps until I got up enough nerve to bring it around.  I really enjoyed the deck just marked out on the pavement and as I remember it there were either wood or metal rails nailed into the ground to support the bags and ropes.
Joe

I'm pretty sure the wood strips are just nailed to the cracks at the expansion joints of the paving.  There are a few negatives about this type of deck.

The big plus is that it only requires one man and Radio Flyer wagon vs four men, a U-Haul, and truck to pull it.

The plywood of a regular deck has a little bit of "give" to it.  But we learned to land softer and live with the pavement.  The short landings and long takeoffs call for a bit of judgement.  With a real plywood deck the fouls are self-enforcing.

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The leadouts generally slide back from the high speed to the low speed position.

Great video - thanks!  How about details of the "deck"?  Looks like a very easy way to set up for contests and practice.  Are the angle pieces anchored to the pavement? Are they connected together somehow?  How are the ropes retained?  You all will be at the NATS, right? 

Ron, the deck outline at Detroit is a series of wood strips that are anchored to the circle with prepositioned inserts that were installed a long time ago. There are six (or eight I don't remember)  strips numbered for assembly and the stips have eye hooks installed to hold the bags. The outline of the deck is painted permanantly on the circle. When the deck is removed the holes sometime are temporarilly putyed up. There are two positions availble on the circle based on wind direction. It does work out well. Paul is correct that being lower than a traditional deck presents some problems however it's better than nothing. Detroit has a traditional deck available but there has not been enough young labor available to use it for a lot of years. In the end on sunday it was Marc Warwashana, Lee Ryktarsik and Paul Smith from the Detroit area, along with Gary Hull, Rick Essex and myself (Wayne Buran) from Cleveland that was the contest. Like I said "better than nothing". We had a graet time!