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[RC] WEIGHT DIVISIONS - Ridecamp Guest

Please Reply to: Edie  Booth desertbred@xxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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OK---    I really really liked the idea of weighing nekid!!! That is, until I 
got a visual of all us old ladies without sports bras....YIKES!!!!!!!!

So that may not be the best solution.

Seriously tho, I would like the BOD to take another look at weight divisions, 
and I really think we should stop the practice of weighing all the garbage that 
we choose to carry with us.  Stick with rider weight in ride clothing and 
saddle and tack. Cantle bags, water bottles, etc. are NOT tack. Everybody 
probably fills their water bottles when weighing for BC, but we should stop 
that too... everybody just going with rider, ride clothing and saddle and tack.

Drop the 4 % too.  Either you nicely meet your weight division or you do not. 
If people don't have the good sense to eat and drink right, they are going to 
lose----  maybe dropping the 4% variation will make them take better care of 
themselves.  Might even save some fool from drinking three (or more) big 
glasses of water and dropping over from Hydro-encephalitis <G>.

Since I opened this can of worms, i have had another heavyweight say (jokingly 
I `think`) that it would be fair then to fill the back pack water carrier 
(which holds LOTS of pounds -- more than a properly worn 10 Gallon hat).

There have been other credible suggestions, and I think it is an issue to be 
revisited by the BOD.  In the Central Region we have a bunch of good 
competitors in the 220- 230 pound weight level without the other extraneous 
stuff, and then we have the real big guys.  None of them need a Middle weight 
riding in their division.


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