Have a look at this timelapse clips taken from Tenerife in the Canary Islands...
http://soaringcafe.com/2011/05/time-lapse-clouds-and-sky-over-the-canary-islands/
While you at on the Soaring Cafe site there is a very good article about the contests and the likely challenges in the future.
http://soaringcafe.com/2011/05/the-future-of-contest-soaring-classes-and-rules/
The most obvious one is the expansion of classes...Standard, 15 meter, 18 meter, Open class, Club class, 13.5 meter class (replacing the failed World class), 20meter 2 seat class, juniors etc etc. If we continue down this track we will have 1 class for every glider and no-one to compete against...it's the price we pay when the people setting the rules no longer fly competitively or have lots of money and reside in Europe..
This article is a very good companion to the summary our own Dane Dickinson wrote for the SRC...I post it up here after the GNZ AGM.
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