Quality, Depth, What are the standards we judge by?

          Over the past few years most of the clubs are now all flying under “World Cup Rules”. If you want to become a Master Flier the scores you get must be under world cup rules. So that brings us to the standards of quality and depth. Now remember frequency has nothing to do with quality.

        When I was in school an A means excellent or above average and A is the top of the scoring curve. F is failing and F is the bottom of the scoring curve. C is in the middle and average witch is in the middle of the scoring curve. Now in quality and depth the scoring curve is 1.0 to 2.0. So what is average? Average to me should be in the middle witch would be 1.4. Why do I say this? 

        The bottom of the rolling curve is an axle roller with the wings straight out witch I would call a 1.0 or 1.1 with Speed being the factor that brings it to the 1.1. As the wings go up the number goes up. We all should know the different styles a bird can roll so an H pattern with good speed would be 1.4 to 1.5 speed being the determining factor.  As the wings get closer at the top and the birds spin faster you get an A pattern. The best is when the ball starts to shrink to a blur witch I would call the blur a 2.0. Now remember  five birds must roll to score so we have to average the better style with the lesser style because we are judging the quality of the five birds that rolled. Speed does not have a multiplier so it should be the deciding factor in quality scoring.  

        With depth it's 1.0 to 2.0 with 10 feet to start with. So is that a 1.0 or 1.1? If so a 1.4 to 1.5 would be 25 to 30 feet? 

        Doug Brown once wrote "If you stand at one end of a football field and someone took a ball to the go post and dropped it you would see what 10 ft looked like from 300 ft. It's not as deep as some may think. But if the birds are in your face you can see 10 ft. I found this chart on a All Australian Fly score sheet.

        I know we all have our own thoughts on how this should work so if you would like to make a comment on what you just read, E-mail me at tamrad@pacbell.net and I will post you comments because this is my thoughts after talking with some World Cup judges. This is not the written rules. Terry D

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