Happick

135001 + 462 = 135463 230 + 0 = 230 135463/230 = 588.97

I am looking at doing the same AFFI course and will be traveling from Blacksburg, VA. PM sent.

There is no record of this change in the minutes from winter 08, summer 08, winter 09. That change makes no sense. How does this relate to the insertion of the word undergraduate in 2.Section 7-1.2A3a ??? What was the issue that came up at the 08 Collegiates? I know the change doesn't make sense and I didn't see it in the minutes either, but I have both manuals and that was copied directly from them. This doesn't have anything to do with the insertion of undergraduate, but people were discussing it so I thought I'd try to clear it up. The issue at the '08 collegiates was just that there was a competitor who was 24, had more than 1,000 jumps and more than 5 years in the sport. Some people thought that since he was technically over 24 years old, he was ineligible. After a short discussion they declared that he was eligible. By the way, thanks for the advice on how to start an interim motion, we will definetely be doing that.

Not really a problem. If you're used to reading legalize, you understand that the original wording limits the age to the change of the YEAR of your age. Thus, once you turn 25, that portion of the statute was invoked. Maybe so, but there was a slight issue with the interpretation at the 2008 Collegiates, which is why I think they tried to clarify.

I believe they changed the wording this year in order to 'clarify' the rule, but they ended up writing the rule wrong. The wording in the May 2008 edition of the Skydiver's Competition Manual read: B. To be declared ineligible to compete, a competitor must have achieved all three of the following: 1. Be more than 24 years old at the time of the meet 2. Made his or her first jump more than five years prior to the competition 3. Made more than 1,000 freefall skydives This year, the wording in the May 2009 edition was changed to: B. To be declared ineligible to compete, a competitor must have achieved all three of the following: 1. Be less than 25 years old at the time of the meet 2. Made his or her first jump more than five years prior to the competition 3. Made more than 1,000 freefall skydives This completely reverses the meaning of the age restriction, which I don't think was their intent. The goal was to clarify if the wording 'more than 24 years old' means a person who is 24 years old is eligible or not (technically, immediately after your 24th birthday, you are 'older' than 24). ...another thing they need to change.

There is a new DZ opening this spring in the Bel Air/Churchville MD area, it is about 30-40 min north of Baltimore. They are supposed to open around April 1st. They don't have a website yet but here is their myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=310353696