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Clinic Notes and Other Preseason Business
2011-2012 Clinics and Training
Get your clinic information: 2011-2012 REVIEW & UPDATE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION - ALPINE, 88KB, 
Get your Study Guides:
Basic Timing & Calculations - Alpine, "iacrobat, 537KB;
Chief of Race - Alpine, "iacrobat, 1227KB;
Referee - Alpine, "iacrobat, 759KB;
RAs: get the Alpine Rules Review and Update. We can then open them together at the RA clinic and no one has to bother with printing. Thanks, Chuck Hughes.
RAs: get those Race Info Sheets in!
RAs: Check your schedules, please. Any club assignment changes should be sent to me, toby@vara.org. Other changes should go through the main office. Council schedules are not yet finalized but should be posted by the end of September, mid-October.
New RAs: 
on Nov 20, you really need to be at Dave's Never Ever Timing Clinic at BMA, 9am-4pm. No, seriously, you need to be there.
Check the Officials page if you missed the note about Homologations.
New Coaches Track Venue:
The Harvard Club of Boston, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
For more information, visit this page on the USSA website. -- Thanks, Jessica Miller, Special Events Coordinator, USSA
This is a reminder to all VARA Club Presidents, Headmasters, Race Directors and RA's regarding the new USSA rules regarding TRAIL HOMOLOGATION. This coming season, ALL USSA SANCTIONED EVENTS MUST BE HELD ON HOMOLOGATED TRAILS. This includes all J3 and J4-5-6 events, some of which had been exempt in past years. This is a significant change which requires your attention during the summer months. Homolgation is not difficult or expensive but it does need to happen during the summer through the USSA Eastern Homologation team. If you have any questions about Homologation or would like to schedule a visit by the USSA Homologation team, contact Ted Sutton at 603 745-2757. (Email: thsutton@roadrunner.com ).
Homologation Information and Application Form
How to pull off Your Bibbo
EMB Tutor
1.8MB 
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Dave Iverson's handy guide to that special "flip". Zipped and packaged with a sample race file so you can test your new knowledge.
Refresh your forms
New Forms for 2008 - Just start downloading.
Kombi Guidelines
Go get it, if you have the Broadband ... Kombi Guidelines !! 8.8 MB !!
Timing Workshop
See Dave's announcement in the sidebar.
Timing and Calculations Level 1 Test Study Guide on this page.
RA Clinic
Some materials:
Race Schedule creation process
and where do I fit in as an RA?
Race Schedule Information Sheet 05-06
Race Schedule Template
and where do I fit in as an RA?
Checklists:
Checklists you might want to edit and adopt.
- To All Volunteers
- An Email List of all volunteers. You will need this at some point. I won't bother reproducing KSC's list here.
- You have a lot of people working on Race Day. Where does all the stuff go: Equipment Delivery on Race Day
- Gatekeeper Instructions.
- Hand-Timer Instructions
- The Race Crew Manual from USSA.
- Volunteer Sign-Off and Release Form.
Set up Your Club Data
Set up your Events
New Policies and Procedures
Policies regarding the website Website Policy for Clubs.
Coaches Guides
New Forms for 2008 - Just start downloading.
The
FIS Rules and Documents List has all the FIS Rules and precisions from the Officials' CD.
The
VARA Rules List has all of the various rules at each level.
Concussion Guidelines
Centers for Disease Control’s Concussion Tool Kit for Coaches All of the coaches should have a copy of this.
Timer and RA Packets and Guides
The
Forms and Publications has everything: BID Forms, Head Tax, VARA Team list, World Cup Precisions, VARA rules, Eastern Modified BIBBO.
The
Timer Documents List has a list of FIS and USSA rules regarding timers, manuals and setup diagrams, and checklists and forms. Alge, Tursh, ComTran program, startgate and finish photocells, Backup Hand Timers.
While you're here, check out the
Program &
Club Membership Information. Once there, you can get and fill out the membership form.
Vouchers
VARA's preferred entry method is for coaches to email bulk lists starting with the 2004-2005 season.
Entry Policy (rev. 7dec04)
Entry Policy.
Entry Form to attach to your email
If you still need a voucher, then you now have two options:
(1) A sheet of four vouchers. Check that each voucher is about 4.5" x 3" when printed. Some computer/printer combinations have been messing that up.
(2) An on-line form
that you can fill out and then print the nicely-typed voucher.
For your athletes
Code of Conduct:
Conduct HTML
or as
Conduct PDF
Scholarship Information:
Scholarship Information
Using the Website
Real-time updates: This website has been updated to allow individual clubs (and a few coordinators) to sign-in, to change race data, to update their own information. Please check out your club information in the
Club List and make sure that everything is correct. After you get the account information ( write to us:
toby@vara.org ), you'll no longer have to jump through hoops to correct your phone number or change the start time on that race in January.
Help Section:
Setup Club Data
Tailored Lists: Since the site is run from a database, we can query that big list and just show you the information you want. At the bottom of the club details, you can find links to show all of your athletes who have renewed their VARA membership, or not. You can also see the races that your club is running. Look at the membership lists to see what I mean. Links are automatically made to the points lists at USSA for your convenience. Choose the appropriate season.
Real-time Calendar: Did we mention that the calendar is also real-time? Visit the
Event List (big, long list form) or
Event Calendar (calendar form).
and play around a bit. You or any athlete or parent will be treated as a "guest" unless you
Login. You can filter the data so you only get J3 and J4 races, for instance. You can print out event information for posting on the bulletin board. ( The information is as up-to-date as the host club has made it. ) Even has holidays included. Very cool. Results, when available, will be marked by this icon:
[R] It will be clickable, and will take you to the results sheet, when we receive results here at VARA.
Cancelled
and postponed races
are just as easy to keep track of.
Real-time Press Releases: You can post a press release / announcement for your racers or for all VARA racers. Council heads could talk about the previous weekend of racing. On the wednesday before your Saturday race, you can post the entry list; it's live for all the world to see, tagged with the date and time. If thursday brings a few more vouchers, simply "edit" your announcement. No more phone calls on Friday afternoon ! Turn on the answering machine and go have a pizza. Racers, parents, coaches, schools, clubs ~ all nine hundred and fifty-two gazillion of them ~ can look at the website instead of calling you in the middle of your dinner. (I told you this was cool.)
Help Section: Posting Alpha-List
If there is anything else you'd like to see, something you'd like us to try and dig up, give us a jingle: toby@vara.org .
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