[Anthony D Burgess]

Originally Posted by Shabby J

Gentlemen, we are ruining the very thing we helped create. All the work and effort to advance this far with the hobby and the unification of coaches through this forum is being torn to shreds and is beginning to crumble from within.

We are all at fault to some extent, our love for this hobby causes the emotions to run high at times and it creates these problematic posts.
They then blow up and go off on some other tangent and now the problem is rolling and picking up steam in multiple directions before you know it.

I am guilty of this myself, I have helped keep ugly arguments going in the past, but I realize it was wrong to post at the time when I am so pumped up over something. I am a short tempered Dago and am very emotional about the things I love, this gets me in trouble a lot of times.

We have to stop arguing and get back to the basics or we will lose some prospective members, guests who see this are not going to want to pay to join a dysfunctional group of hobbyists.

The MFCA lost a lot of it's appeal to me after our heated MFCA Value Debate, now we are back to arguing about the same stuff we have done over and over again tenfold. I know if this having such a bad effect on an early member like me who thought this was the greatest thing I have found in 30 plus years of hobbies, imagine what outsiders and potential coaches are thinking, let alone the new guys who have just joined us and are pumped up about the hobby, asking some great questions, I have seen them on here lately, I bet they are not around for long though at this pace.

I had to say what was on my mind. Can we all focus on the hobby and it's advancement for a while?

I'm just a fat Italian guy on his soapbox who happens to love this hobby.

Why do people argue ? It is because they can't or will not understand. Coaches are driven by what they hear rather than what they actual know.
Example: I don't know you personaly, I can't go by someone's opion of you if the don't like you then what picture of you will they paint?

We can use this board to share ideas, we may want the same thing and do it a different way, you're way is better then mine so I will use it because it is better. That is where we need to be. But we don't do that.

If we love each other the way we say we do then we should be slow to take offence and quick to understand.