Fractured Axel

abw · Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:11 am

bryan beasley wrote:
'TT' for a national FREESTYLE comp.

I was thinking maybe we should call this the "Trickstyle" format. It fits in nicely with Tricks Party and Trickout. It also emphasises the <i>style</i> part, whereas "Trick Thang" doesn't say much at all.

Also it confuses me to call it 'TT' because TT is the Template Toolkit (one of my other babies). I can't have two different things with the same initials or my head will explode.

A

Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:19 am

I thought Trick Thang was Jason's format?

Jason · Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:29 am

The Thang in trick thang stands for people doing thir own thing, ie freestyle. See http://fracturedaxel.co.uk/phpBB2/viewt ... rick+thang

Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:06 pm

abw wrote:
TT is the Template Toolkit

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/? ... 4569013319

Always wondered about the O'Reilly books... Did you get a choice of animal? Was the donkey already taken? (Closer to a camel, too)

bryan beasley · Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:23 pm

Just thinking out loud, would it be easier to judge / set up a TP if the entry form was altered slightly so that competitors just put a number in a box next to a pre-printed trick list (including category score and a score given)? You know 1 - 8 in order of appearance in the routine instead of writing a list to be copied a couple of times. I know it would be easier to fill out from the competitors perspective.

Bryan

abw · Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:12 am

Andy S wrote:
I thought Trick Thang was Jason's format?

Sorry if I sounded over-possessive. It's the format as described here:

http://wardley.org/kites/freestyle/league/format.html

The format was thrashed together by Jason, myself, and numerous other people here on this forum and out in the Real World. So it's not my format, or Jason's, but we've both played a part in getting it off the ground. As explained in the "Acknowledgments" section of the above page.

A

abw · Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:21 am

Andy S wrote:
Always wondered about the O'Reilly books... Did you get a choice of animal? Was the donkey already taken? (Closer to a camel, too)

Officially you don't get a choice. You can make a suggestion, giving reasons why you think a particular animal fits in with the subject matter of the book. I suggested the badger (one of my favourite animals), and even provided them with a lovely picture of a badger from the Dover series (the series of woodcarvings from which the O'Reilly animals are taken). But they chose a different, more American looking badger instead :-(

my choice: http://wardley.org/images/misc/badger.png
their choice: http://wardley.org/images/misc/badgerbook.jpg

A

Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:25 am

Thanks for settling that for me Andy. Their badger looks deformed.

"Sed & awk" is my favourite O'Reilly cover.

And now back to your scheduled program...

abw · Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:40 am

abw wrote:
The format was thrashed together by Jason, myself, and numerous other people here on this forum and out in the Real World.

Here's the message where I first proposed the format (or something like it). It was in one of those almighty Trick Competition threads from this time last year.

http://fracturedaxel.co.uk/phpBB2/viewt ... ght=#10358

It was just a few posts later in the same thread when I dropped the idea that would become Virtual Freestyle:

http://fracturedaxel.co.uk/phpBB2/viewt ... ght=#10391

I must have been having a good week. More cake!

A

SteveB · Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:33 am

http://www.rogerdean.com/upclose/badger.htm

my favorite badgers

aphelps · Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:01 pm

Hmm. Relieved to come back and find everybody still friends, and in broad agreement. For my own part, the TP events have been much harder to stage because the infrastructure requires more preparation, in line with STACK IRB competitions. IMHO TP and IRB competitions appeal to the same group of flyers.

The Freestyle (I like "Trickstyle" by the way) event is spectator-competition format that I have seen for kite competitions and this is the one that will grow in IMHO. I see no reason why competitors will not start in Trickstyle (yup I really like it) and then progress to IRB and TP competitions if they wish to.

Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:04 pm

I see the Americans are whole-heartedly adopting TP. :twisted:

aphelps · Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:53 pm

I see the Americans are whole-heartedly adopting TP.

Yes. And so are we.

Southampton STACK Comp - July 16/17