Well, My First Post On Steve's Forum And...

[Brick2560]

Welcome Mane!!!

[kingsuv]

Jeffrey / Andy,

Glad to see you guys make it on over here. Please keep us up on the happenings down south.

I know myself and others are willing to help out to grow shows anyway we can.

Maybe some of us hard core competitors can get together and brainstorm some ides to help at least maintain the sport if not grow it. We all know dealer support is down and manufacture support is even worse. It would be nice to put together a game plan to get these guys back involved. I think we all need to do a better job at getting new blood to the events and being extra involved in helping them improve. I would also like to see shops do a better job of bring in their customers from say the past 6mo to a show to compete and hopefully up-sell their systems. I also have seen shows that are tied into another event do better then store parking lot shows. Spectators are a great way to bring in new people. Some of the best shows we have had on the west coast have been tied into car shows. I think whatever the org, drag / usaci we need to be the dog and pony of a show instead of trying to headline something. Us old timers, myself included need to do a better job being approachable to everyone. If we are as helpful as we can be, then people are less likely to be intimidated of some of us old timers and bring their cars to the next show.

[Team Bassick - Kimo]

If you care about how many people are there you aint doing it for the love. Down here in Oah'u were lucky to have a shop hold 1 comp every 2 years and have 20ppl enter. Now we hold our own which started about 1 year ago and we started off with about 5ppl and now this past 1 couple days ago we had almost 40.

Its because we love the sport thats why we care about turnout. Yeah its not the point on the head count but, like Andy stated A bad turnout means the host probably won't host again. You don't need to tell me how bad the scene is in HI. However, that is just another reason why we need to grow this sport. This thread might of started off on a bad note but, thats the point of a forum. To have an open discussion with people and be able to voice opinions and get ideas. We are in a small section called competitors corner so majority of us are competitors weather you actively, previously or planning on competing thats probably why you are in here.

[~digital~bass~]

I was just saying because Jack said how horrible a comp is once a week with 15 people and we have 1 every 2 years with 20 people so he can feel better. Would be cool to have comps every weekend like you guys and keep scores trophy and all that good stuff but seems like no company is willing to try it out. Ive tried e-mailing some companies and people but nobody seems interested. Maybe we need this OP to come down here and hold comps.

[wL<3bass]

If there was some sort of large scale advertising then it would take off but that is expensive I had never heard of dBDrag until I really got into stereos.

[ALPINE408]

The shows tied in with car shows are allways the best we get new comers with show cars with a nice system see what we are doing and jump in

Remember the brizalins from autorama bill? They were at the Fresno show and competed said they wanted to get into it spectators and promo is the key

But is it up to the competiors to promote NO but we need to

[kingsuv]

Them Brazilians were something else.

And your right, I have seen more repeat competitors from shows tied into a car show then from in front of a shop. Now to make it worthwhile for the shop, we need to get them people back into their store.