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For over a month now I have been reading post blasting the APBA, Steve Hern, Ed Hern Yada, yada, yada. To all of the indaviduals who just put out plain garbage, please look at the history of boat racing, the APBA, the UIM and then understand what they have done for the sport over the coarse of almost 100 years.
Boat racing dirived from sail boat racing (otherwise rich people). There were a group of indaviduals who had the foresight to take and bring all the different clubs, regions, and types of boats under one governing body and got them to agree to play under the same rules. Not to many other forms of motor sports allow you to race in your back yard for a national high point championchip. The difference between then and now is people worked to make the APBA better, and now all people seem to do is complain and try and break it apart. You need to understand the past, what priciples where used, why things where done the way they were before you can say this is wrong, or that is wrong. What is wrong in one region, may not be wrong in another, the United States is a big country, allot of diffent type of inviroments, conditions exists etc..etc..
To be able to make everybody happy there has to be compromise on a national level, other wise if we ran everything like its done on the east coast the west coast guys and gals would just shake their heads and never be able to hold a race, or visa versa. The thing to do is work to fix what are real problems not percieved problems. APBA is there to govern not promote boat racing, promotion is what should be done at local, or regional levels. If the APBA could promote, what should they promote? There are how many divisions, regions, classes. What they can do is govern, set rules, have apeals hearings. Here is a questioon for you, how many apeals held by NASCAR do you realy think have been ruled in favor of the team, or person apealing the penalty. I would bet to guess none, NASCAR is a privatly owned bussiness, the appeal procces there is just to say they have one. In the APBA you are able to apeal all the way up to the board of commisioners, and there have been many times they have overturned a rulling.
The problem is the APBA is a political proccess, you have to play by rules and go through a set of standards to get things changed or ruled upon, people take things personel when they don't get their way. What they need to understand is maybe everybody else doesn't see things their way, it's not a personel attack on them just there has to be enough people who feel the same to make the change happen.
So my point is, quit slandering people, the APBA, and whoever else you feel is the reason we have problems. Understand the history and work to make things better from within, it will take time, patience, and courage
Remember these three things
Honor-what makes civilised men
Integrity-what is needed to make the first work
Courage-what is needed to uphold the first two
My two cents
Kerry
Boat racing dirived from sail boat racing (otherwise rich people). There were a group of indaviduals who had the foresight to take and bring all the different clubs, regions, and types of boats under one governing body and got them to agree to play under the same rules. Not to many other forms of motor sports allow you to race in your back yard for a national high point championchip. The difference between then and now is people worked to make the APBA better, and now all people seem to do is complain and try and break it apart. You need to understand the past, what priciples where used, why things where done the way they were before you can say this is wrong, or that is wrong. What is wrong in one region, may not be wrong in another, the United States is a big country, allot of diffent type of inviroments, conditions exists etc..etc..
To be able to make everybody happy there has to be compromise on a national level, other wise if we ran everything like its done on the east coast the west coast guys and gals would just shake their heads and never be able to hold a race, or visa versa. The thing to do is work to fix what are real problems not percieved problems. APBA is there to govern not promote boat racing, promotion is what should be done at local, or regional levels. If the APBA could promote, what should they promote? There are how many divisions, regions, classes. What they can do is govern, set rules, have apeals hearings. Here is a questioon for you, how many apeals held by NASCAR do you realy think have been ruled in favor of the team, or person apealing the penalty. I would bet to guess none, NASCAR is a privatly owned bussiness, the appeal procces there is just to say they have one. In the APBA you are able to apeal all the way up to the board of commisioners, and there have been many times they have overturned a rulling.
The problem is the APBA is a political proccess, you have to play by rules and go through a set of standards to get things changed or ruled upon, people take things personel when they don't get their way. What they need to understand is maybe everybody else doesn't see things their way, it's not a personel attack on them just there has to be enough people who feel the same to make the change happen.
So my point is, quit slandering people, the APBA, and whoever else you feel is the reason we have problems. Understand the history and work to make things better from within, it will take time, patience, and courage
Remember these three things
Honor-what makes civilised men
Integrity-what is needed to make the first work
Courage-what is needed to uphold the first two
My two cents
Kerry
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