Why coaches dont give the tweaker credit but give props to the painter

My questionwas why do coaches give the painters praise ,but keep it on the down low about the tweaker?l:

[FORU2HATE]

Maybe cause its easier to show a paint job on the web page than a tweak at a tourney all tweakers get props trust that most tweakers get to a tourney a day or two before it starts so set up shop before it starts

Just my two cents

[Anthony D Burgess]

This is a good question .

May be it could be that tweaking is not coaching ? Have you thought of that ?

Tweaking : This is to program ,
Coaching : Well there is much more to this . Ti gain a better understanding , look them both up .

[Raven maniac]

If tweaking is to program do you not tweak your bases in your system? I have seen you system at the brawl so I understand the x & o's of the system. But unless you want them just bouncing around without controll we need to tweak right? Just a question. As for the tweakers thumbs up you do the D*** thing.

Darrian

Fellas,
We are visual creatures. We like things that appeal to our sense of sight. Tweaking is also an art form. To get your figures to run at all is work. If you can get them to be very fast or strong takes talent and time! A lot of work goes into tweaking these bases. Once you have your base performing the way you want, it could be considered programed. However, it is still a new creation fromed through someone's inner vision of how they think the bases should run. Now you have to get it to perform the way you want it to in a game. Of course there's so luck and skill involved in this,but we all know everyone can't tweak! Now if you think you can just go out there and put any kind of bases on the board and expect to win, you must be playing by yourself?

[WEIRDWOLF]

My last post before I head on vacation.

Post some pictures of a tweaked prong. I bet you get 25 responses saying wow, that's beautiful! That's the only difference. Tweaking is something you have to be in the prescence of to appreciate where as a paint job can be viewed and appreciated without seeing it perform live.

Actually though, I would love to see some good photography of an untweaked prong follwed by a that same prong tweaked and how it performs. That would honestly get Oooohhhs and Awwwss and would help all understand and enjoy the art of tweaking!

Action! Heres where we stop complaining and start showing off our tweaked bases and what they will do in a 40 yard dash (A MFCA 40 yard dash is 25 inches from the front of the base to the finish line. 5.3 mm = 1 foot) or against their strongest base.

[Coach K-LO]

it would be not so pretty to look at tweaked bases..... the real beauty is in the performance. That's when a tweaked base's beauty is realized.

For those of us who don't tweak, they still send $$ to get that talent on their teams, even those that DO tweak do the same thing....

I don't get as much "love" for tweaking skills (numerous titles to support my talent) but that does not stop me from helping someone learn the art. Sure, it might take some $$ out of my pocket but at least I have helped someone advance his pleasure and improved his team and his other portions of our hobby.

A.Burgess acts as if he does not tweak a base, but he does. Any time you put weight under a base and tinker with the prongs, You are in essence, tweaking the base. You may not be using a tool, but you are not using the base straight out the bag.

Tweaking, to me, enhances the hidden talent within a base. It enables you to "create" a skill player from a novice (straight from the bag) player. It's just like going to training camp or bootcamp where the daily training is designed to bring out the best in each person to do battle on it's given field of operation.

K-LO

[Jim Davis]

i tweak bases for sale and a lot of coaches that buy my bases tell me don't let no one know that they bough my bases,

and a lot of coaches buy my bases even if they don't want no one to know and that's all i got to say.

[Coach Rip]

....perhaps if a coach who wins a league or tournament, does not give big props to his contracted tweaker(s) is because he wants to credit for the win(s) and not to have it dimished by others, (if they knew of his purchases of tweaked bases) " the only reason he won is because he bought his team."blah blah blah,,...........I even had one coach beg us to NOT sell any of his league mates bases, and "Please don't let them know you did my bases", ......TRUE STORY,

And another time when I had thought outside the box and tweaked a TTC a certain way, totally within the rules, the league commisioner let me know in no uncertain terms that will not be allowed for next year....

Painting figures and detailing them does NOT give a competitive advantage, but tweaking does, and being the competitve animals we are, who wants to let the cat out of the bag, ...............I remember in the "dark Ages" when boiling was done by a select few and the rest of "us" were ignorant to boiling and tweaking, .....................heck we didn't even know how to spot a boiled base, guys were getting pummeled 50 - 0, ............now that is a great way to keep new guys coming back to your league ...........

[Coach K-LO]

Originally Posted by Coach Rip

....perhaps if a coach who wins a league or tournament, does not give big props to his contracted tweaker(s) is because he wants to credit for the win(s) and not to have it dimished by others, (if they knew of his purchases of tweaked bases) " the only reason he won is because he bought his team."blah blah blah,,...........I even had one coach beg us to NOT sell any of his league mates bases, and "Please don't let them know you did my bases", ......TRUE STORY,

And another time when I had thought outside the box and tweaked a TTC a certain way, totally within the rules, the league commisioner let me know in no uncertain terms that will not be allowed for next year....

Painting figures and detailing them does give a competitive advantage, but tweaking does, and being the competitve animals we are, who wants to let the cat out of the bag, ...............I remember in the "dark Ages" when boiling was done by a select few and the rest of "us" were ignorant to boiling and tweaking, .....................heck we didn't even know how to spot a boiled base, guys were getting pummeled 50 - 0, ............now that is a great way to keep new guys coming back to your league ...........

Great points Coach Rip.... I remember some of those events back then....

How things by the way????

K-LO