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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Shultzie on October 16, 2007, 02:14:41 PM
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BOM! WILL NEVA-EV-AHHH' FLY AND ALWAYS BE A HASSLE AS LONG A WE TRY TO CALL OUR COMPETITON SPORT OF AEROBATICS----- A HOBBY!
(Hummm????....after reading all this....MY! OOOOH MY!!!
(In sort of a sad way....it appears that we shall forever until the end of time, to continue to FLOG THAT POOR OLD DEAD HOBBY HORSE...DA' BOM!
N'FOREVER MORE! n~ n~ S?P
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Shultzie, I have the hardest time trying to decipher your posts. What are you saying? If you're seriously saying CLPA is a sport, it's not. it's a HOBBY. Just ask my wife. ;)
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Shultzie----------are you off your meds again?
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Hey, if CLPA is a sport then maybe the world champion can be named Sports Illustrated's athlete of the year. Kinda like Golf when whats his name was named athlete of the year. Go Figure! I do believe most semi healthy people can walk eighteen holes of golf and swing a club. Does not make them a athlete. Skilled perhaps but athlete, No! Is checkers and chess considered sports? Maybe we will start seeing more of these Athletic events in future Olympics. While we are at it how about knitting as well.
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(In sort of a sad way....it appears that we shall forever until the end of time, to continue to FLOG THAT POOR OLD DEAD HOBBY HORSE...DA' BOM!
N'FOREVER MORE! n~ n~ S?P
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Keithhs/Misc%20Pics/Beatinadeadhorse.gif)
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Did you write this before or after flying kites. I call this hobby a sport because I am too old to call it anything else. They also say pool is a sport and I think they mean a beer bust. I call anything that is a competition a sport. I even call the wife an old sport HB~>. we all know shultzie is suffering from paintademia so let the poor guy say what he wants, after all he has been around long enough to have invent a whole bunch of stuff. We love ya Shultzie even if we don't know what the h?@2 you are talkin about. LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ HB~>
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OK! GANG OF GRUNTS....I RESEMBLE ALL THESE REMARKS... n~ ???
After reading all the reactions to me calling CLPA a sport...instead of a HOBBY-HORSEY THANG which in truth will forever remain just a hobby, until we can no longer be SADDLED AND YOKED WITH THOSE TACKED ON...BOM RULES H^^ LL~
Hummm...SPORT just doesn't cut it...huh?
Here is what Dr. Dictionary says about HOBBY AND SPORT!
Pretty scary and sobering thoughts....hummm? No wonder we have a VD~ of a time trying to put labels on things ~^
You folks are right....After flying competiton kites in both choro and pattern, I feel that no flying competition should be saddled with purty-points. LL~ S?P S?P H^^
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Shultzie;
I understood what you said PUUUUUURFEEECTIDDDABBBLY the first time around, but what the hey we think alike.
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"G-Man"
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Which proves...
"Don't let yer babies grow up to be Caaaaboys' or stunt flyers! H^^ LL~
Thanks "G Man!" All of you guys taint' heavy....cuzzz U my brotha's in balsa and paint fumes. :X
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Donny,
I guess it sort of depends on how you look at it. To me, football is a sport, baseball is a sport, track and field is a sport, basketball is a sport. They are athletic endeavors in which one team is tested against another or against the clock. To me, golf is a pastime as is billards. Obviously, a lot disagree. Tiger Woods makes a lot of money from what I look at as a pastime. But then, I think golf is evil but that's me. Go figure.
I see model planes as a hobby. Can be an intense one that takes way too much of my time sometimes, but still a hobby. But as I say, it depends on how you look at it. I play computer games (also too much). To me they are just that; games. Some make money from it and there are big dollars in online competitions, but it's not a sport. I used to play the game Magic: The Gatherings competitively. And the competition could be quite fierce. Believe me, flying model planes is nothing compared to a high level regional Magic tournament when it comes to high level stressors. But it's not a sport even though some guys make a lot of money at it (from competition purses).
So as I say, it depends on how you look at it. Truth is, I don't care all that much. The local scene isn't likely to change much. Outside of a couple of guys like Leo (who is clearly off his meds), few around here want the nature of the thing to change much. If a guy uses a wing from Bob Hunt or whoever, so what? He built the rest of the plane and it doesn't bother me at all. I don't much care when guys fly ARFs, either. I'll admit that I like things the way they are, more or less. If it changes; the BOM goes away, we're invaded by a cloud of ARFS, this hobby becomes a spotlight sport on ESPN, whatever, I'll take a look and see if I still want to do it. If not, I guess it's back to computer games.
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NICE POST RANDY!
Thanks for sharing your perspective.....about our addiction to our HOBBY, HOBBY SPORT...OR SPORT our what ever punches our buttons.
Enjoying and Flying Toy Airplanes....is still the glue n' goo that keeps all of us going round and round.
Again.. brotha Randy
AMEN!
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Since poker is on TV now,is it considered a sport? I can give a rats #$% about watching poker on TV, golf is a short second,is it a sport?.dont really know,depends who you talk to. I think some tv exposure would really help grow this sport or hobby. How about the worlds? or nats?
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What is a hobby, to me when I was much younger it was a hobby. I would build and go fly when I could. I attended a few contests as mostly a spectator in those early years and even entered a couple. It ceased being a hobby when I was finally out of school, working a full time job and helping my Mother raise my little neice. I was building planes for competition and getting out when I could to practice. Going to different contests to try and do the best I could. Now I call some of it a hobby because I fly stuff that does not have events for it. I also still build stuff for competition, but, not like I used to. The only event that I fly/compete in that I say covers both hobby & sport is stunt or Precision Aerobatics. I still like racing and carrier, but, not as serious as I used to be. Sure some of the events did away with the BOM and people say that was the down fall of the events. I say they just got too competitive for the average person. Stunt with the PAMPA classes is the one event that most anybody can get into without too much effort. I know a few people that if it weren't for the ARF/ARC would not be flying as they have no where to build or finish. Ask the guys that live in a two bed room apartment with a family. My opinions, so lets have fun, DOC Holliday
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Building is Hobby, flying is pure sport.
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Actually anything that involves competition is a sport. We get things mixed up by considering sport to be something that strength and sweat are inherant to.
A hobby is doing somethig like crocheting doilies or working jig saw puzzles.
IMHO control line flying is more an obsession driven by compulsive behavior.
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Actually anything that involves competition is a sport. We get things mixed up by considering sport to be something that strength and sweat are inherant to.
A hobby is doing somethig like crocheting doilies or working jig saw puzzles.
IMHO control line flying is more an obsession driven by compulsive behavior.
'Opps!!! Sorry Franky...WRONG!
My wifes mother won 1st prize at the Puyallup Fair...with a crocheted table cloth...and also noticed in the paper a few months ago that there are "timed puzzle put together contests at many Senior Citz's where the winners get all sorts of prizes from local Tacoma merchants?