Starting a rocketry club?

BTW I did read the pages on NAR's website about starting a new section.

Thanks Tom

Here is a link to NAR's Starting a New Chapter. It gives you all the info you should need. Easier to view than explain.

suggestions.

Tom: first contact NAR HQ and get a NAR member listing for your state....you may find some NAR members close to you that may also want to help start a NAR section....this assumes you want a NAR section...if you want a non affiliated club, then consider placing posters in local hobby shops, contacting local schools,etc.... shockie B)

suggestions.

Soccer moms! rocketrys' worst enemy! They'll get you banned from your field quicker than the BATF!

Dale Greene SPAAR 503 looking for a new field in central PA

There are two things you can carry to get soccer moms on your side, and one additional thing you can do to win their hearts.

Chocolate. Decent chilled bottle of wine (with cute Dixie cups).

Keep the kids busy for 10 minutes while the moms enjoys the above. This only works if you are friends with one of the moms and always stay in view with the kids.

Zooty

You're lucky you got spectators & not protestors. We use to launch from an adjacent football field on Sundays & 1 of the rockets came down on a field in use some of the parents complained about us with the concerns of it hitting one of the their children playing pee-wee football.

Good Luck

JD

suggestions.

from this I deduce that zoot is either female (and a mother), or a casanova

:o)

- iz

zoot wrote:

Whenever confronting them, counter whatever their arguments are with the fact that yes, you are always seeing ambulances at the field, but for some reason they always seem to be picking up patients over on the soccer side, not the rocket side, and that they appear on the scene whether rockets are being flown or not. .

"Which side are you on?" asks Ismaeel. "That would be telling" replies Zooty.

Anyway, what difference does it make. Six to one....

Zooty

Why's this damn weather balloon following me?

Yeah, the one time a soccer game was at the same time as our rocket launch on the next field, that was the only time we saw an ambulance at the site...

I don't remember soccer being that dangerous in high school...

-dave w

Well, you probably neglected to note that the ambulance was probably called because some of the parents beat up on the coach for not giving little Johnny more playing time!!!

David Erbas-White

Top 3 sports for injuries to children:

1. Soccer
2. Baseball
3. Football

My statistics come from being president of a youth association here for 8 years. It cost us more for insurance for soccer, than baseball and football combined.

Randy

They don't confront us directly (in fact they often come over and watch) but they complain to the school board that the noise disrupts practice. Now we have had a great relationship with the school board over the last 15 years BUT 60 soccer moms all pay taxes to that district whereas only a couple of our 60 members live in that district

- numbers talk!

Dale Greene SPAAR 503

What city and state are you located in. Some states have regulations requiring permits.

We have a helpful info sheet on our club website:

-Fred Shecter NAR 20117

The noise only discrupts practice beacuse, obviously, the kids are more interested in watching the rockets than in ruining their knees and scrambling their brains. You can buy a *whole* lot of kits and motors for what the ACL surgery will cost, and not have to go through all the pain and rehab, either!

NIRA had used its original field for about 3 decades when we lost it to soccer moms. We paid $20 for our rocket insurance for the year. The park district paid $60,000 for the soccer program insurance. We never had any claims.

Which one is most dangerous?

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!