ezeedad
777 posts
Aug 28, 2008
5:41 PM
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My club, the LARC, worked out this system to certify our best birds. I hope some might find it helpful, or food for thought.
Los Angeles Roller Club
Certification of Rollers
The purpose of this certification is to verify that a roller has proven itself to be a superior spinner.
JUDGING: The bird will be evaluated by three judges familiar with the thirty point system of judging individual Birmingham Rollers.
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. The pigeon to be certified must qualify as a spinner at three separate stages by scoring a minimum of 23 points each time when the thirty point system of judging is applied.
2. To be judged for the first stage, the pigeon must be a minimum of six months of age.
3. The bird must be at least one year of age to be judged for the second stage.
4. The bird must be at least fifteen months of age to be judged for the third stage
5. After qualifying at either the first or the second stage the bird cannot be judged again for a minimum of two months.
6. If a bird does not qualify at either the first or second stage of the evaluation, a minimum of two weeks must elapse before the bird is judged again.
7. If a bird does not qualify at any stage on three consecutive occasions, it cannot be certified.
8. A bird will be disqualified from certification if it rolls down during the certification process.
9. A bird will not be scored if it bumps at time of liberation or while landing.
10. If a bird bumps more than once during the certification process it will be disqualified.
11. The bird will be evaluated for the duration of its flight, which must be a minimum of twenty minutes,
Approved unanimously by all members, Sept. 15, 1996
Paul G
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765 posts
Aug 28, 2008
5:57 PM
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THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE A LONG ONE LMAO.....
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EVILLOFT'S
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gotspin7
1790 posts
Aug 29, 2008
4:45 AM
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Good info Paul.
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Sal Ortiz
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sippi
498 posts
Aug 29, 2008
7:43 AM
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Good luck on that Paul. The NPRA has a certification program similar to that but the distance between members precludes very much certification. There have been a few certified though. Bluesman was the first to do it.
Sippi
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ezeedad
779 posts
Aug 29, 2008
10:21 AM
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Thanks Sal,
Sippi,
The system we worked our was for our club. Our members were no more than about 10 minutes apart, so we could actually do it. We didn't want any one month wonders getting certification, so we spaced the timing of the flies out. As it turned out, our club sort of fizzled out, BOPs. members schedules, etc... and we never certified a bird. But we did get some good rules in place,,
Paul G
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CSRA
1639 posts
Aug 29, 2008
8:20 PM
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Thats a tough system but it can work lol
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ezeedad
783 posts
Aug 30, 2008
10:38 AM
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Steve,
A mature roller could get certified in three flys. We added the additional rules so that a bird could start the process early. Also we thought that we could give three chances to qualify at each step. If the system was too easy we thought our certification wouldn't mean too much.
Paul G
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