ezeedad
774 posts
Aug 27, 2008
1:01 PM
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I am curious to see if there is anyone who knows how the early individual bird competitions were judged back in Staffordshire, England.
Paul G
Last Edited by on Aug 27, 2008 1:05 PM
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sippi
495 posts
Aug 27, 2008
4:08 PM
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"Formerly, matches were made for a stake whereby only one bird in the kit was judged. The stipulation was that the bird which accomplished the most number of rolls in a given time was adjudged the winner. This may sound camparatively easy, but the judge had to keep his eyes constantly upon one particular pigeon entered for the competition , a rather difficult task at best. Further more the rolls had to be perfect in style and the tighter the better, without a change or slightest deviation from the perfect roll and, of course, as deep as possible."
Acrobats of the Air, James Graham and others, 1941
Sippi
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ezeedad
776 posts
Aug 27, 2008
5:30 PM
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Thanks Sippi...
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3757
882 posts
Aug 28, 2008
5:47 AM
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Paul - I like the way Bill Pensom described it.
"The old fashion method of competition flying generally tood the form of matching individual birds rather than large numbers (W. Pensom 1958)."
"There is no doubt in my mind that the pigeons used on these occasions were of the highest calibre and they represented to the full the ideal roller pigeon (W. Pensom 1958)."
Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2008 5:48 AM
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