On 6/06/2012 06:51, toad wrote:
As for the "greying" of the SSA,...

The funny thing is that the hang glider folks have the same issues
with greying of the membership. So do the sailboat racers.

The paraglider's seem to be a bit more youth oriented, not sure why.

It's very simple. There were no old men there who already 'owned' it.

The late middle-aged men who own hang gliding (and put young ones off
joining) are the young men who began it.

Soaring is even older and is just about ripe for a new generation to
snatch it from our feeble fingers and re-vitalise it. They'll break
away from the SSA, start new comps and new clubs and make it their own.

That's how life is.

GC