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Originally Posted by maddog
It's a shame because if you look at a lot of the American buggy comps, they just go hard at something and end up on their roof. I feel that sometimes it takes a bit of the technical nature away from things because you don't care if you put the buggy on its side or roof.
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Not taking anything away from you but have you ever tried to drive something like your discribing? If you had you would realise that attacking walls like that requires far more skill than people think. I have heard so many times that its just "Point and Shoot". Thats total BS. In one throttling climb a good driver knows when to apply all the power they have at hand and they know how to combat what the terrain is dictating to them, they then would have to keep the Buggy on that line and reduce the amount of throttle, then they might just reapply a bit more throttle at the top - all that in mere seconds. Arrghh but that requires no skill compared to the slower technical stages!
Also when you see the Vids of all those rigs rolling of the climbs, i thought you could then appriciate how good the one or two guys are that actually pulled it off, they are not lucky they are just damn good. It is also interesting that most of the guys that make the climbs look easy are also some of the best "Technical" drivers around.
Anyway, if you like rockcrawling then get into it. If you don't like the way its going then support events similar to them to get a start, ie XRCC, Superior all terrain etc etc.
If you do decide on building a buggy ask people that have actually built or driven a buggy. There are so many people out there that make out they know everything there is to know about rockcrawling but they have never built or driven a buggy. Ask more than one person as even those people have there beliefs in what works and what doesn't. Any Driver, spotter and team in the current WEROCK series will be more than happy to take time out and talk to anyone about their Rig, hell they most likely built it from the ground up and they would get really excited when someone digs what they have put together.
One other thing, Australian Rockcrawling hasn't "jumped into the deep end" and is advancing to quickly and copying the americans. We have been doing this since 2002. Its only now after years of hard work that people are finding out about it and are wanting to get involved.
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