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 on: Today at 12:05:29 PM 
Started by LenMiller - Last post by terry17
It's probably impossible to have everyone at the WT pitch the same number of games before moving up, even if you don't include playoffs.  I just think it makes it worse if you do include playoffs.  Players will drop out of a class for one reason or another or the class sizes may not be the same to start with.

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 on: Today at 11:52:26 AM 
Started by Tina Hawkins - Last post by fourdead61
Thanks Tina I did just that, it was tough to find a catogory for it but I got it on there. Maybe they can cut some of there 1,000 of ours of "Poker Coverage" and give us a minute or two. I mentioned maybe some of the "Pro Tour" if not then like you said the World Championships.

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 on: Today at 11:31:01 AM 
Started by cobbler - Last post by Jerry
The portable pit you saw on the ESPN spot was identical to our world tournament pits. The material inside the box was 3" "memory foam" padding with a cloth cover. This foam absorbs the shock amazingly well, but it does get beat up over time. It's an easy and clean solution for demos such as this.
Jerry

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 on: Today at 11:17:43 AM 
Started by Tina Hawkins - Last post by Tina Hawkins
Major networks plan their offerings based on what the fans want to see. Let's let ESPN know we enjoyed seeing horseshoe pitching on their network! 

Send complimentary words and thanks to ESPN through this link:

https://r.espn.go.com/members/contact/index

Be sure to mention that you want to see MORE of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association and competitive horseshoe pitching in the future, incuding the World Championships next summer!

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 on: Today at 10:05:34 AM 
Started by cobbler - Last post by rza49311
Does someone make those portable pits? Whats used as the cushion?

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 on: Today at 09:01:16 AM 
Started by cobbler - Last post by Tina Hawkins
Thank you, Cobbler!  This will also go on the NHPA Facebook page where 429 fans can link to it!

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 on: Today at 08:51:08 AM 
Started by moshoe - Last post by krpap
Reply to Bret V.
Pitching horseshoes and having fun should be the ultimate goal of our sport, not a quick reward for a good performance. Pitch your very best as often as possible and let the results reveal how well you have done. Having a system in place to allow the pitcher to have a few bad tournaments and still maintain that high average seems to be wrong somehow. I want to pitch a high average as much as anyone and pitch as many or more tournaments as most in order to improve.

We have apparently never tried a true average system on a national basis and I think it is time we tried it to see what the problems and advantages prove to be.   

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 on: Yesterday at 09:52:18 PM 
Started by Tina Hawkins - Last post by KBidwell
unfortunately Dunn was a seminole, better off being a Gator right Stan??? hahahahaha

but yes a great video, gotta get any exposure that can be grabbed!

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 on: Yesterday at 07:55:45 PM 
Started by cobbler - Last post by Casey
Thanks for the tip Cobbler, 206 horseshoe pitchers in Northern California with email now have that link!  I might post it on my Facebook page also?

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 on: Yesterday at 07:28:43 PM 
Started by cobbler - Last post by cobbler
OK... I'm back from summer vacation from the forum... Had a great time in Cedar Rapids at the WT!  My thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put on this awesome event!  Many exciting things happened there... Meeting the South African Jukskei Team was awesome!  Well, I could go on for hours about all that and more...

While in Cedar Rapids, I was able to have several one on one conversations with our new NHPA President, Stu Sipma.  One thing I will say about Stu is that he is absolutely committed to finally developing a national youth program for horseshoe pitching.  This is something that should have happened sixty years ago.  Every other sport that has seen explosions in participation in the last hundred years has accomplished this by extensively developing youth programs everywhere.  A great example of this is golf... and man, has it paid off for them!  Stu totally recognizes this and badly wants to develop our great sport in the same way and I applaud him for that... finally, this is getting the attention it deserves! 

Anyways, I've been trying to catch up on other posts in this forum and I see there is a lot of talk about the poor finances of the NHPA.  My gosh, let's give this president the tools he needs to do the good things he wants to do!  I see a lot of talk about how the world tournament prize fund needs bolstered in the Elders Division and in other places and that we want to expand the electronic scoring but all that is impossible due to the fact that the tournament is running in the red already... Well, the answer to that couldn't be any simpler... raise the entry fee $25.00!  Seriosuly, you're signing up to play in a tournament that you're going to probably spend a couple thousand bucks to attend... what's another $25 to a player in the world tournament?  Just solve it that way... end of story.  Does anyone really have a problem with that?

Getting back to the youth development... Here we go again... same story... no money to work with for this either... Well, come on... seriously?  Just raise the NHPA dues to where they should be and we'd have no trouble with this.  If NHPA was keeping pace with other similar organizations, their annual dues would be somewhere between $50 and $100.  So, let's just do this... Here is my proposal:

Raise NHPA yearly adult dues to $65.00

NHPA gets $45 and the state charters get $20 (all states charge the same amount in this system).  NHPA members get their current membership benefits, plus Newsline and a T-shirt or ball cap or some item with annual membership logo on it. 

All of the extra revenue collected gets put into a fund to develop youth pitching programs all over the Unted States. 

Don't tell me you can't cough up another forty bucks a year to help save this sport we all love so much.  If I can, you can and I'll be the first to do so... Seriously, let's just do this and give this President the tools he needs to be successful. If we do our part, I know he will do his... We will have thousands upon thousands of kids playing horseshoes all over this country in a few years... Think about that... is that worth forty bucks? It is to me... If it's not worth it to you, then you need to find another sport.

It is time we took this sport into the 21st century and if we lose a few stingy, grumpy old men along the way, who cares... What do we need them for anyways? Think of the throngs of kids we'll gain in the process instead... definitely a worthwhile trade if you ask me!

Again, let's just do this and get the ball rolling on all these things... what are we waiting for? 

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