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Wishing Everyone A

Very Happy, Healthy

And Prosperous

New Year!

The Fall Board of Directors meeting has come and gone,

and we're still asking the same questions...

Have you asked yourself...

"What has been accomplished by our national organization

over the past year to rebuild our sport?

What have our leaders in Lincoln done to create new programs

that will regenerate our class system, the system that brings

an influx of new skaters into the talant pool?"

Oh wait... Beginners classes aren't important are they?

Afterall, they aren't world class. There's no coverage in the

Magazine or on the web site is there?

Nope, just a lot of hard work that means the survival of this sport.

No Medals are placed around the neck of the coaches

who break their backs to produce NEW skaters.

But God knows there should be. Because they are the people who are doing whats necessary to rebuild this sport.

And they get NO recognition.

While our National Governing Body goes blissfully on

its merry way ignoring the problem, and continuing

to promote a failed system.

To those who are left...

From The Ghost

To those who participated in this past years Nationals I say thank you. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for your love of our sport. And thank you for your good sportsmanship. Without you there would be nothing. But you deserve so much more.

To those of you who gave of your time on the stage and behind the scenes, and to the judges, you deserve a lot of credit. Yours is a thankless job, but without you nothing happens.

But to those of you who created the structure of what our National Championships has become, I ask you this simple question… How on Earth do you sleep at night?

Some of you will defiantly answer “I sleep very well at night thank you….”. And that says it all doesn’t it? Some will choose not to answer at all and just ignore the question entirely. And that speaks volumes in itself. And some might wonder why I ask the question at all. And that fills in the remaining blanks. After all, what’s the point? No one cares right?

I sat for quite a long time on the CanAm chat room watching events and reading the comments that were being made. And what did I see? I saw the same people, making the same complaints about the same things. Same this year as last year. Same this year as two years ago. Same this year as three years ago etc., etc.

On and on it went.. “Oh we need change…” , “Why are they doing this..”. Over and over, time and time again. “We need a new structure…” Oh dear what shall we do?”.

I had a conversation with someone who told me that her “coach”, and I use that term extremely loosely, told her that if she didn’t take her daughter to Nationals after finishing 9th or 10th (Can’t remember exactly) in some "B" or "C" event of some kind, that her daughter would be “blackballed”. Hell of a coach you got there. A real “pillar” of the coaching profession. Yup, there going to "Blackball" this child. What is more freightening then the concept itself is that this poor women believed it. I guess that the miriad of skaters that just didn't show up or scratched are ALL "Blackballed" right?

I watched someone make the statement in the chat room that if we can only get into the Olympics that everything will be fine. For the person who made that statement my suggestion is that you seek professional help. Hopefully while you can before obamacare kicks in. The statement made me breathless. Who ever you are who made that statement, are you aware that we had only ONE(1) Senior World Class Dance team and only TWO(2) Junior World Class Dance teams in the entire United States of America. If by some rip in the fabric of time and space we ever got into the Olympics who will be left from this country to go??????????????

The fact is that NONE of you is ever going to do anything to help yourselves. So here’s a revelation to those of you who are too scared or afraid of the bogey man to help and fight for yourselves.. YOU DESERVE EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE GOTTEN, ARE GETTING AND WILL CONTINUE TO GET. If your not willing to stand up and do what’s right then YOU are part of the problem. And you no longer matter. So sit down, stop the complaining, take lots of pictures and be quiet. By your silence and unwillingness to fight you have given up your right to an opinion. YOU are the people that this current system and structure was specifically designed for. And its working well.

I see that there is a new website who's goal is to save our sport. Believe me when I tell you that with all my heart I hope that your efforts are successful. I have said many times that I don't care who comes up with ideas that work, as long as those ideas are successful in revitalizing the sport that I love. My only question is, why on Earth did it take you so long to join the fight and raise your voice? I would also suggest that the time for the gentle and politically correct approach has long since past. I would respectfully remind you that If you want to make an omelette your going to have to break some eggs.

You wanted a new structure and a voice in what happens in this sport so someone out here had the guts to create one for you, and I published it. Its been posted on this website for over three years and would need to be updated. The author even included the step by step procedures for getting it done. But what difference does it make? None of you are going to do anything about it anyway. So keep paying your $75.00 entry fees and traveling to Lincoln to skate all those ridiculous and meaningless events and smile.

Here’s a few suggestions for the Board for NEW events. Lots of places here for new entry fee’s. Your gonna love these.

Proposed!!!

The National Pick-A-Partner Dance Event

Click Here!

To my Bubba, I pray that you are now at peace.

You will always be in my heart!

You're home again Bubba

And we'll always be together

Rest In Peace

Love, Pappa