[Silverhorse 228]

I am with Wolf, George Diamond and Ed Roche...first we just need to stop fighting about 4.0 vs. 3.2. This line of discussion and bickering is counter productive and serves no purpose other than to complicate things for a new coach....and quite frankly sometimes it has become childish. Let's just have weight classes and be done with it...or why can't we have weight classes would be a better statement?

We need a very simple unified rule set for a new coach...and I for one am going to do something about it. It is my belief that the tudor rules should be the starting point and perhaps we add some very basic updated rules to this set to bridge the gap between the newbie and older coaches...

That is it...that is what it is all about...bridging the gap...bringing people up to speed...whatever you want to call it...the MFCA is about promotion and helping the new coaches along. I had the privilege of meeting two new coaches at the Miggle Convention and let me tell you...all of this discussion confuses the hell out of them...

So here is what we are going to do...with Wolf's permission I would like to start on a basic rule set...I like Wolf's idea...we should call it the "Basic 2009" ruleset. We will start with Tudor game rules...people will make suggestions...I will type up the results...then at the 2009 MFCA convention I will include it in the "Book of Rules" and guys from all around the country can try it out and tweak what needs tweaked. In the mean time I will send a copy to new coaches and let them try them out to give us some feedback....

Any opinions on this proposal?

Just trying to get the ball rolling to move the hobby forward...as for 3.2 vs. 4.0...hell...the HHEFL would prefer to go SMALLER instead of larger...to have a scale board you need a really big house! Anyone ever consider going 2.3 grams...anyway...the debate will continue...debate is good...let's just not forget about the new coaches out there in this discussion...