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Saying there is not sand bagging is like saying AC is not a paid Pro on a 85. Same thing goes for all the top prospects racing at LL's.
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Wait till that super fast C rider at the local track gets to LL and discovers he can't smoke the pack like he does at home. I have witnessed this from the pee wee classes on up.
A national championship should bring out the best riders in each class. If they win....move em up for next year. There are a number of riders who win their C championship and get moved up at every event from then on. Some go on to do great things, others find that in B or A the competition is much more fierce and stick to local racing.
I wish everyone had the opoortunity to experience LL....it really is something special.
a. All license applicants must be at least 16 years of age at the time
of application.
b. A Motocross license may be issued if the rider has met one of the
following requirements.
i. Held a Pro Motocross license in either 2009 or 2010 or a
Supercross or FIM license in 2009, 2010 or 2011.
ii. Earned at least 75 advancement points (at the time of
application) in the AMA Pro/Am Motocross Series.
iii. Finished in the top 20 overall positions in the AMA Amateur
National Motocross Championship in 2010 or 2011 in the 250A,
450A or Pro Sport classes.
iv. Earned 50 Arenacross class points in the 2009-10 or 35 points
in the 2010-11 AMA Arenacross Series.
v. Earned 75 Arenacross Lites class points in 2009-10 or 60 points
in the 2010-11 AMA Arenacross Series.
vi. AMA Pro Racing may issue a license to any rider who does not
meet the above criteria if it determines, in its sole discretion, the
rider has adequate competition experience.
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I think at a national national event 7 year olds should race guess who?
6 year olds and who?
This is not the first time DC has heard of this. We'll be there and we'll be fast. But we think the rule should change for the kids behind us. Meaning next year. Meaning we don't benefit but the event does.
What is so hard about changing an unfair rule in our littlest racers class?
Its Life...sometimes your the big fish sometimes your the small one.
If your going to be there this year stop by Daves (Engine Ice) Chicken Fest on Friday..I would just LOVE to talk about this in person! :-)
My birthday is late in the year so going threw school I was always the oldest in the class.......did this give me an unfair advantage?
DC
MX Sports
How you can successfully incorporate something like this into amateur motocross when each age group includes a two + year span?
At some point you will be the younger one in the age group and at some point you will be the older one in the age group - it is the nature of defining age groups.
The more important point of Gladwell's book I think is the 10,000 hr rule - basically it takes 10,000 hrs to master something,
In a nutshell, Gladwell believes The Beatles’ success was due to the fact that in their early years in Hamburg, Germany, they had to play very long sets at clubs, in a wide variety of styles, which both helped them to get in their 10,000 hours and forced them to be creative and excel at experimenting. Or just being born during the right time frame has a lot to do with success. He divulges that one 9 year stretch has accounted for more Outliers than any other.
Agreed fascinating stuff - but how would you apply it to amateur motocross to "level the playing field"?
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Allow me to call BS on that comment.....
If your kid is going to continue racing and trying for LL's then you will always have the age thing to deal with until he gets well into the big bike classes.
This is all about you and what happened with a 7 year old kid in your son's class......because I would put down even money that if your kid was the one born in January we wouldn't hear a peep about this from you.
Instead it would just be you complaning about how certain people always win the hook-up lottery.......lol.
As for GNCC, it is not a professional series in the sense that you don't have to apply for a pro license to race it from the AMA. And I can remember even Scott Summers and Barry Hark, multi-time champs, starting out in B when they crossed over to race motocross. Neither of them did that well.
And Mr. Info, sorry about the GP thing.
DC
MX Sports
4. Participation in, or advancement to, a higher class in any
AMA or non-AMA activity by any rider will result in
permanent advancement to that higher class (in like
activity) in all AMA-sanctioned competition. (Like
activity=MX to MX or Enduro to Enduro, etc.)
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