drop zone politics

[skydiverjerry 0]

I really am fed up with this crap in skydiving, I just heard that the Israeli skydiving federation is bringing over some real good free fly coaches sounds good yea (18 to 25 oct)? Well at the same time as they are doing this they are also organizing a boogie good yea

Crap the free fly coaches who are being paid a ticket to come will actually be at another DZ so we have a choice go to the boogy or get some coaching from the best free flyers in the states and its pure undiluted political bull shit,

Why not wait for a few weeks until the boogy is over and we have a few bucks again.

There are only two drop zones in Israel so I will not stoop to pointing names, but if I was xxxxxxx bxxz (name deleted ) I would say screw it.

I vote less politics and more skydiving. Altitude not attitude.

life is a journey not to arrive at the grave in a pristine condition but to skid in sideways kicking and screaming, shouting "fuck me what a ride!.

[billvon 3,118]

That's not politics. That's competition, and it's what keeps drop zones efficient. Both are trying to get your business, and setting up stuff for you to do. That's a good thing, not a bad thing.

If I were running the drop zones, and I got enough bitching about how "it was all politics" I might just cancel both events to prove it wasn't politics. It would sure be a lot easier. Is that a better result?

[skydiverjerry 0]

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but the Israeli federation is run by people from the one drop zone so in effect they make decisions based on favoritism,
with no logic whey sponsor an event at one drop zone that we skydivers are working real hard to be successful and at the same time at the other dz sponsor another event?

We have to choose which to go to when it would make more sense since there are only two drop zones anyway to have one event one month and then one event the next,

These events are for skydivers not for the money generating tandem aff or iad courses

So while your argument is true in a normal sense in this case skydivers who want to do both are forced to choose

life is a journey not to arrive at the grave in a pristine condition but to skid in sideways kicking and screaming, shouting "fuck me what a ride!.

[billvon 3,118]

>with no logic whey sponsor an event at one drop zone that we skydivers
>are working real hard to be successful and at the same time at the other
>dz sponsor another event?

?? There's plenty of logic. You are trying to draw skydivers away from the other drop zone with your event; they want to get them back so they offer their own event. That's competition, and is common in the US. The winners are the skydivers; they get more stuff to do.

> in this case skydivers who want to do both are forced to choose

Exactly. And that's a lot better than having no choices.

[skydiverjerry 0]

> in this case skydivers who want to do both are forced to choose

Exactly. And that's a lot better than having no choices.

[falxori 0]

I'm not going to start an argument about it here, but your post is full of errors and a few unfair accusations...

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will actually be at another DZ so we have a choice go to the boogy or get some coaching from the best free flyers in the states

not true, they will be in both DZ on different days.
and as far as i know, they will be at the boogie too.

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Why not wait for a few weeks until the boogy is over and we have a few bucks again.

because its the holidays, more people can jump and thats the time period in which they were free.


and to accuse the organizers of favoritism, is simply unfair.

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