As you might have heard, CRW dogs from around the world are gathering in Lake Wales as we type this, to prepare for yet another world record attempt.
Keith McBeth is one of the participants, and he plans on sending out daily blogs via his MySpace page. He has graciously allowed us to pass on his posts and pictures for the readers of the PD Blog to enjoy (especially those that are not a part of the MySpace craze).
Here comes the first one - enjoy the read :)
Hello all!
November 17th, 2007 at Lake Wales, Florida will be the first day of an 8 day event where CRW Dogs from all over the world will attempt to break a current World Record! In 1996, a canopy world record formation was completed in Germany. Which was a 53way! In 2002 we set an official USA record of 49 people , then we went bigger and set an unofficial world record of 56 people! The formation was not official because we were not attempting to break a world record, so we did not have the official judges to make it a world record. Once we built the 56 way, there was no question we could go bigger!!
In 2003, we went for a world record! Sucessfully we completed a 64way, 65 way and on the final day, we wanted to see if we could go bigger, so we added a few more, and the record stood high with 70 people!!
After a few years of training and selecting, in 2005 the CRW
committe wanted to go bigger and attempt an 81 way formation. We
completed the 81 way at sunset! The next morning they wanted to see if
they could add row 10? Row 10 would be 10 people across from left to
right, which would make the formation an 85 way! They completed it on
the first jump! From that formation, they new we could go bigger!
So November 17th to 25th 2007 CRW Dogs from all over the world will gather in Lake Wales in attempt to make a 100way formation!! This will surely be one of the last big way camps the world will see for a while if the formation is built successfully. The action and tension is going to be non-stop and you wont have to miss one heart beat of it!!
Keith is also an amazing photographer and will have pictures of the event available for sale after the event - please let us know if you need his contact details.
