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RC Crawling growth!!!
- Thread starter JIA's Dad
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dezfan
I wanna be Dave
CMRCRC competes regularly w/ several people in the St. Louis area making it to our comps.
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http://www.4wdthunder.net/Forum/index.php
AJf
Rock Stacker
yea i no im a member of that forum but i cant get my parents to drive me that far and being 1 of 4 kids and we all play multiple sports my parents never have enough time to take a whole day just for me to come watch posibly participate in a comp and the comps are always bad times...i wonder if i could start an st, louis club??
I like the idea put forth of having the kids run at the same time as the adults, same courses and judging. I don't want to see that change. But the point I'm trying to make is the kids need to be scored so that the highest finishing kids get to attend the major events. Even though they may or maynot have been in the top 2 of their local group. I child finishing 5th or 9th against adults, still losses. Very true. But if thats the top child for a season in that local group they should be rewarded. I have nothing to gain by bringing this to light, other than the fact that seeing the kids at the comps lightens my heart. Especially when I see one child kick some***. Then to see the look when they find out even though they did a personal best, their like 12 in the scores, well that sucks. I'll say no more!!!! Thanks you for listening!!!!
dezfan
I wanna be Dave
AJf
Rock Stacker
ill do that
dezfan
I wanna be Dave
AJf
Rock Stacker
thx
Kranberry
RCC Addict
2 comps a go(the rock utrcrc knows what it is) there were a number of kids there, wich is awsome a couple of them had wk to keep them enter-tained and what not but there were som of the people letting there kids drive there trucks. heck ive let kids dive and sometimes brake my truck....ide love to see a section in not just the nats but in local clubs for the younger ones...i.e: super easy course that realy isnt hard to setup not as many points given out etc etc.... but there are very young people on here. ive seen a 10yr old on here even if they have nylnts there in the sport that what brought me here:!: and being the cheap pile of crap they are it forced me to go to a hobby shop and look at the options, and i chose the wk, but i woulnt be competeing if it wanst for bob(works at mlhs)who explained what this does if you do this you can do that or make this.... but what iam saying is we should save about 5+ spots in the nats for 13 and under.
thats all i have to say
-chris8)
Stormin2u
I wanna be Dave
Kids grow up fast if you get the chance to get close to them don't miss it if you do you'll regret it forever.
gregrocks90046
RCC Addict
i know that i am bringing this thread back from the dead. just wanted you to know that an 8 year old girl finished at the '07 nationals in 2.2 above 16 adults(including you JIA's dad
). that girl is so-cal dean's(another kid) sister, rockpiledriver's daughter. don't know how dean did yet.edit-dean took 29th, bailey took 44th. way to go bailey!
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theTman
Quarry Creeper
my crawler costed almost $500 but it was spread out. i had money already into a rtr xxx-t that i had a mamba max in so i took out the tranny, esc, and used the body on my crawler. i bought the rtr xxx-t 2 years before the mamba. i built my crawler with L stock aluminum and aluminum plates for a torsion chassis and bought some tlt axles. i dont have a job and my parents never buy me stuff unless it is christmas or my birthday. and i only get $80 max for christmas and $40 birthday. the key is doing chores for money. its easier to get a crawler if you earn it and do not have it bought for you. i only have $100 into tools and have all i need. the problem is too many kids are lazy, spoiled, or both. and for the record i am not poor my parents just have good principles. i am proud of earning my money. and as everyone says age doesnt matter much in crawling unless you are too young to properly to control it, or too old and have problems.
if i had a club that wasn't a 8 hour trip i would compete, hell, i don't even have a crawler. but as for getting parents into this hobby.... especially with mine... good luck, he supports me, and takes me to the LHS, but that's it, i have to come up with the $ and everything.
as for tools, i started with a thing of L wrenches, and a screwdriver, and made my way to better things, but that was over a year.
and becouse there is no club near me, i am confined to running on trails and scalers, which if fine with me, but it kinda sucks becouse i can't compete.
and also i think we need a AX-10 or a WK class, to cut the cost of the competition down
just me .02 cents
as for tools, i started with a thing of L wrenches, and a screwdriver, and made my way to better things, but that was over a year.
and becouse there is no club near me, i am confined to running on trails and scalers, which if fine with me, but it kinda sucks becouse i can't compete.
and also i think we need a AX-10 or a WK class, to cut the cost of the competition down
just me .02 cents
todd1803
Rock Crawler
ORCRC is in the process of starting up an ax10 spec class, where the trucks need to pretty much remain 100% stock.
I know that the racing world has a junior's class, but I just don't think there are enough kids with crawlers to make it viable on a local level right now.
Here in WA, Tanis has been bringing Brittany to the comps for over a year now, and she totally holds her own, but the real reason it's great to have her around is the influence she has on the rest of the members. Seeing the way she can make her run, then go right back to running around and playing, seemingly uneffected by how well she did or didn't do on her run. It's a great reminder to everybody that we're really there to have have fun. If we let a bad stage ruin that fun, we're doing something wrong.
It seems like more and more we have people getting their families involved. One member built a crawler for his wife to compete, and now his son is getting interested. Double J brought his son out to the last comp. I think it's great to see the family aspect, and I hope more family members elect to take part, I just don't see a seperate class right now.
Double J
I wanna be Dave
You can see his run in the video I posted for Lucia Falls, WA.
No one seemed to care much that he didn't even try to keep inside the cones/:lol::roll:
He and Brit, along with a bunch of other kids ran around catching Tadpoles the rest of the time. They had a blast and all that mattered.
why seperate the kids? I race also and man kids kill us they do great why put them against other kids when they can beat grown ups... being the kid national champ is fine but being the champ of all is better.... and in theis hobby they can do it.. and the more RTR trucks we get the better there chances get... also adding more classes is a problem it will take more time... this is not a sport like baseball or football where a 6 year cant compete with a 12 year old... in r/c a 6 year can compete with a 26 year old and beat him...
theshimonator
Rock Crawler
how about have kids have 2 scores? one for normal runs with adukts and 1 for the kids class also so hey don't have to run a different course. it would be at the most 10 different scores to write down if that!
Crawlerguy851
Rock Crawler
A buddy of mine (screenname jebs) had build a very respectable crawler for around 300 dollars. He bought a TLT, and SW2, Moabs, what not, and it performs very well. It now has about 400 dollars into it, mostly because of the Mamba max, Scorpion Brushless, and M8, but...who cares, still a long long way off from 1000, and it beats the crap out of mine. Unsuprisingly.
some_guy
Quarry Creeper
im 15 and my parents have bought $40 of alluminium for my clod crawler and that's it
i dont have any fancy tools either
electric drill, hacksaw, basic tool kit (pliers, few spanners and a ratchet + sockets), old stick soldering iron
i've built it all my self, earn't all they money to pay for it by working for my dad each shool holidays for the last few years and learn't everything about crawlers off this website
my crawler is all custom built using what ever i can find, i bought alot of the stuff second hand and off ebay
even though rc crawling started here in aus it hasn't taken off as much as the states
their is probably 100 of us all across australia, and we have an interstate comp once a year like your nationals but nowhere near as big
so far it looks like 10, 15 cars at best are going so far and its the first weekend of november
but back on topic you dont need parents interested in the sport to get involved, my mum barely knows what an axle is
i dont have any fancy tools either
electric drill, hacksaw, basic tool kit (pliers, few spanners and a ratchet + sockets), old stick soldering iron
i've built it all my self, earn't all they money to pay for it by working for my dad each shool holidays for the last few years and learn't everything about crawlers off this website
my crawler is all custom built using what ever i can find, i bought alot of the stuff second hand and off ebay
even though rc crawling started here in aus it hasn't taken off as much as the states
their is probably 100 of us all across australia, and we have an interstate comp once a year like your nationals but nowhere near as big
so far it looks like 10, 15 cars at best are going so far and its the first weekend of november
but back on topic you dont need parents interested in the sport to get involved, my mum barely knows what an axle is
todd1803
Rock Crawler
Sure, until he throws down a low score....... :lol::lol:
Also curious to see what those in favor or a seperate class think the age cut off should be for kids vs adults?
I ask because we have a member who is 15, been racing since he was 6 or 7, and is one of the fasted off road racers in the Northwest. Not that he's consider running in a kid's class, cause he's capable of winning against the adults on any given day, but I was curious.
