[bmiddaugh]

ah yes!
But it is better to have loved and lost….then to never to have loved at all.

I think what I was going for was something like we finished up with.

Yea, we can do it, just need someone to run it and a simple rule change.

Instead of starting with a can’t do attitude.

Do ya sorta know what I mean?

Cave, are you coming to the banquet? I believe the pa system thing is being discussed there.

[bmiddaugh]

I would also like to offer my services as team manager.

I know Dave was busting…
But, it has a ring to it..

The Cavegirl Team?

[bmiddaugh]

I’d just like to add that the ladies classes are not on there, but they will be run and get the same stuff the guys do….
Man…we need to get more girls into this..we almost forget about them completely…

[bmiddaugh]

Maybe one of the mom’s could encourage their daughter to sorta co-manage a team. Teach em the ropes.
It could very well give one of the ladies who was thinking about quitting motivation to stay with it to help new girls get into it.

[bmiddaugh]

LMAO

[bmiddaugh]

oh….Cavey….marry me!

[bmiddaugh]

well that depends on how you look….. 😆

[bmiddaugh]

I’m sorry…its just that, someone comes up with a KILLER idea and then people just start thinking of reasons why it shouldn’t be done…without even asking the people who would be affected by this in the first place..
it sorta boggles my noggin…

and everyone knows how passionate I take this BMX thing.

[bmiddaugh]

no no no,
you can not get more girls into the sport without making it so girls want to be in the sport.
stop thinking about how NOT to do it and start thinking about how TO do it.
This is what holds everything back, you all have got to start thinking outside the box of what has been done so far.
Let’s wait till we get more riders to promote the sport to more riders, lets give everyone who races card saying when the races are…

I have had the malaise in this state up my bottom this past year and quite frankly I find it incredibly sad that the people who say they love this sport so much don’t sit down and figure out ways to make it better.
You bitch because I say let’s have state meetings 6-10 times a year.
Guess what…it’s gonna happen…maybe not now, or next year…but barring my death, it will happen.
Have any of the moms ever sat down with each other and their daughters and said hey…let’s get some of the girls together and get a team going?
You all keep saying it’s for the kids and the riders but yet how often do you go out and tell them,
THIS IS YOUR SPORT, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IT DONE.
I can only hold back on how I feel about this for so long….
How many times in the past did you have a state meeting and bring the kids with ya and just let them fly with whatever ideas are in their heads?

Ask the girls about this, hell ask the boys about this…maybe it might make the other teams try harder if the freaking ladies were given a shot at something like this.
I am so hot right now I can’t take it.
If one more parent who has never straddled a top tube, tells me something can’t be done it is gonna get real nasty.

Here’s the bottom line..stop thinking like parents all the time and start thinking like a kid.

Kid- I want to have fun doing what I am doing.

[bmiddaugh]

The ladies team could have their own poster that appeals just to women, and it would probably be a way better design then I or anyone else could ever do.
Check out the NJ all girls team kick the boys butts in the state series.
More marketing potential for BMX.

[bmiddaugh]

if you have 10 girls on a team and they are all winning, and you have 10 boys on a team and they are all losing.
the girls win.

the girls would not be racing themselves, they are racing the other teams.

who cares about the national level, the nbl isn’t concerned with us at the local level except for our entry fees, so we should implement a rule change.

How do you get more ladies to race? Promote the ladies…

Am I really having a discussion with 2 women on how it would be great to change the rules to allow an all girls team and they aren’t fully down with it?

I think it would be great to make things better for girl racers to have some say in the sport and the moms aren’t saying ….”hell yeah Brett, let’s do this!”
I’m dying here…my god if my g/f sees this thread she is gonna pass out!

[bmiddaugh]

NJBMX can become the suffragette movement for BMX racing.

[bmiddaugh]

as a 2007 representative for CJ, I would vote for a rule change to allow an all ladies team.

[bmiddaugh]

then we change our state rules.

[bmiddaugh]

This sounds so revolutionary it would kick ass!
…This sounds like a great job for the mistress of the ladies of NJ BMX Susie Levan.
You out there Susie?

[Author]

Posts