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Speeding up the Sheaf

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Topic: Speeding up the Sheaf

Posted By: McSanta
Subject: Speeding up the Sheaf
Date Posted: 9/14/05 at 1:48pm

Clint Garda came up with an idea to move sheaf along quickly.

The athlete gets a total of X misses (call it 4) until you reach a given height (say 22 feet for A's). After that height, the throwers remaining get 3 misses per height.

Height values would need to be adjusted for classes the various classes or perhaps who is throwing in that class.

I am looking at old score sheets to see how many less throws the event would take, what is the best cut off height, and the number of misses under that height.

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Mark McVey

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions." -John Ruskin

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Posted By: IrishJohn
Date Posted: 9/28/05 at 5:10am

Mark, when I judge I advance in 2 foot increments until I have only 2 competitors left. I've been bogged down before when the judge decides to go up by 1 foot with 3 or 4 guys still in. (not that it's a problem for me, I'm usually at the snack bar or taking a nap 'cause I'm out at 18')

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I vote for better last place trophies!!

Posted By: seckmrl
Date Posted: 9/29/05 at 12:14pm

I dont have that event in the AZ games but have competes in it and found that the 2 foot jumps with a good starting point seemed to keep the time table reasonable..

Same for WOB we try to start so that 75% of the group can clear the height even if it is the max they can clear and then move up 1 foot at a time until there are 3 left then we do our best to try and get field records or world if possible .. I did see an earlier post about having X number of total throws in an event I thought that was pretty interesting.. I think it really fovors those who get more practice as they have a better idea of what they can and can't do in a given number of throws..