Hi ray,
Welcome to the forum. I find it quite strange you have been watching both forums so much without actually being a part of any groups but I guess that doesn’t matter.
I don’t really see why you had to sign up just to launch that kind of stuff at me. But you have, and I can handle it. I don’t really feel the need to answer or respond what you have said but I guess you will be disappointed if I don’t. So here we go.
Why don’t we have our own forum? We only just have our own website. I think we were the last group to get one despite being fairly well established. Bocking has always been high on the agenda and other stuff much less important. The EA bockers have been using this forum for years and without any problems. It is only recently, since the launch of the website, that we have been feeling the need to have our own forum. We like using this forum but things may have to change. So why hasn’t it been done already? I guess that is down to me and I take full responsibility for it. The EA bockers website was the first website I ever made. I am no expert and I think setting up a forum at the moment is beyond me. But is the amount of work put in really measured by having/not having a forum?
I can see why you think it is two faced. I won’t blame you for that. The EPBs did invite us to the kitefest and we had a good time. There were people like bob who were getting people on bocks the whole weekend. I’m not saying that it wouldn’t have been good without the EAs but I think they brought a lot to the weekend. The kite festival was held right in the middle of the EA bockers area. 2 miles away from our gym! This event is also in the EA bockers area.
May I also add that this event is different to the kite festival. It is much more formal. The bocking in the arena will be quite limited and I cant imagine it just being our usual jumping about. I think we will put some effort in. The majority of the rest off the stuff will purely be getting people on bocks. We should have our own insurance and we will need to make sure that everybody teaching is dong so safely. I know the EA Bockers can do this and do this. I don’t know many of the EBPs and I would not like to make myself responsible for them being safe. I need people I can trust. I cant trust those I don’t know. You hit the nail on the head when you said the kitefest was just a laugh and a meet up. This is definitely not that. We have a job to do.
I would also love to have another meet up with the EPBs. I really enjoyed meeting them and they are great guys. But, I think it has to be somewhere less formal than something like this. We are there to sell the sport, the EAs and our energy and we have a job to do. It’s no normal meet up. I would be more than happy to have another meet with the EAs, infact I suggested to Dal we did it again. I really want to but please, not here.
@Naz, thank you. I think you understand perfectly how it is. You are spot on. We have got a job to do there.
And no, we are not being paid. But we are working.
