This weekend the USPA BOD voted to carry out the new distance course for the open class that the IPC approved earlier this month.  The new rules for the distance are to be published by the IPC on March 1st, and will be implemented into the new USPA Competition manual that will be effective at the 2012 nationals at Skydive the Farm.

For the Advanced class, there was quite a bit of discussion on how and if this course should be amended.  After getting ideas from CP competitors in the field, the Board discussed various options.  Keeping the course the same, moving the entry gate down to 1.5 meters, adding some sort of drag similar to the open class were all discussed.  In the end the board voted to keep the 3 meter entry gate for the distance event at this time.  They also voted to add a 1.5 meter tall gate at 50 meters down the course (same as in the open class).  This was done in an effort to bring the approach of the advanced competitors one step closer to the open class.

There were no changes to the speed and zone accuracy events.

Time to get training!