tkhayes 348 #1 April 23, 2009 We are hosting a junior accuracy meet in May, I was looking for ideas for the format of it, how to divide the experience levels up and such. Does anyone have experience and could offer some suggestions? thanks TK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pchapman 279 #2 April 27, 2009 Hey TK, I don't have any good ideas but can just say what I've seen, especially back when fun accuracy meets were more common. At the meets I was at, a category break might be at 100 jumps for the real juniors. (Won my first meet that way with 27 jumps, jumping rental student gear). Or 300 jumps for the upper limit of juniors in any sense. But break points were varied depending on the local jumpers, putting people in natural groups. CSPA uses 200 as the Junior upper limit. Since it wasn't pro accuracy onto a pad, distances were measured out to a max of 5m or whatever was convenient (eg, no further than the edge of the bowl). CSPA uses 10m for Juniors. Jump runs: From little Cessnas at least, I've seen either single passes at 2500'-2800' or two jumpers per pass at 2800-3500'. Big accuracy stacks get too confusing. You'd know better what to do with big planes. One would have rules that judges could sanction or disqualify someone for a dangerous approach. A couple times the meet for the under 100 jump jumpers was scored based on time rather than distance -- like for hit and rock -- timed from touchdown until stomping the target. Fun although it measures more than just skydiving skills. If landing on grass rather than in a pea gravel bowl, setting up a circle or circles to measure distance was done by spray painting the grass orange. Then if one didn't want to get into exact distance measurements, one could draw circles at intervals to create zones. That would fit with the little used CSPA Sport Accuracy rules (the competition manual is on the web) that uses zones for points, and a penalty for not making a fully stand up landing, and one for running out the landing past the outer 15m ring. (One can debate that rule - it tends to penalize landing long more than penalizing landing short. That may or may not be a goal.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohanW 0 #3 April 27, 2009 Quote .. judges could sanction or disqualify someone for a dangerous approach. This one is important. (Some) people will do stupid things, even for no prize beyond honour. Stressing the importance of not doing stupid things in competition is esp. important with low-timers. I have seen style points being awarded to keep certain persons from winning ( .. again Johan. I am. I think. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #4 April 27, 2009 My first junior accuracy meet was hit-n-runs under round cheapos. Try that for a change - now that's real skill. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #5 April 28, 2009 Quote We are hosting a junior accuracy meet in May, I was looking for ideas for the format of it, how to divide the experience levels up and such. Does anyone have experience and could offer some suggestions? thanks TK Junior accuracy? Will they be standing still or trying to dodge us? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
