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ORIGINAL: danwilms
Absolutely, I'm not trying to scare anybody off just get the point across that novice class should be a fun day out with nothing dangerous or too scary. The problem is many of the events are set up by very experienced riders who forget what is scary to a new rider. As I've said for a long time if the novice sections are too easy a rider can always move up but if the novice stuff is too scary the only way a rider can go is out and from the tiny turnout in novice class that appears to be what's happening. It's important to keep riders in the sport long enough to learn to enjoy the more difficult sections. Scare them off early and the sport dies.
Motofire is right. If you don't like the look of something take a pass on it. In the past years new riders started in the beginner class where they'd learn the basics of scoring and trials technique. Adults and youngsters rode together with an instructor and when they were ready they could move to the novice sections. Now adult beginners jump right into the novice class because they think beginner is just a kids class which unfortunately it has become. If you haven't ridden trials before starting in novice is like a drink from the fire hose. For some, no problem, but for many it's too much. It used to be there was a core of adults who stayed in the beginner class all year. They had fun, they learned. Now there's a stigma attached to the beginner class that has to be removed for the good of the sport. I had hoped it would be obvious that the dissolution of the beginner class meant that novice sections had to be even easier then before but they are exhibiting the problem that plagued the novice sections over the years when NETA membership declined sharply. A “creeping elegance” where sections get progressively more difficult over time.
SSDD. When is someone going to take the initiative and check the sections? At the annual meeting nobody seemed to think that a section steward was a good idea, but it sounds like we still need one. Mind you, I'm strictly commenting on what I've been hearing from the guys who have been to these events, I didn't go. This is sounding like a broken record. I agree with Dan, but what is going to be done about it? Seems to me that we need a more 'hands on' approach from the NETA board. (Not picking on anyone special here, that's just what I saw in the past and seems to be the same now).
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