In day to day life I found allot of kids starting in rc want to be spoon fed. I see this mostly at the race track. I have missed several races due to ignorent little snot nosed spoilt mall junkies, and thier dads, that can't tighten a damn screw. I don't think it is a lack of skill, just too damn lazy and the fear of dying from dirt on thier soft little girly hands.
DAMN STRAIGHT! You hit the nail on the head.
I have been at races on several occasions where kids new to racing will just come right up to me, more likely because I have a short stature and look their age (I am only 15) and I am messing around with my high dollar Mugen buggy, and they see that, think "hmm, he can probably help me", and will ask me questions like, "how do you start these things, is there a button?"
And their parents just bought them the best nitro buggy that money can buy with all of the extras.
And so I help them, but I dont do anything for them, I just say, "you have to pull on the pull starter while you have a glow ignitor on the glow plug, etc, etc," and then they ask can you do it please so I can see how its done, and they usually have an impatient look on their face by now, and I tell them no, I just showed you, and walk off.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of people their parents are, to let their kid grow up like that, and expect other people to do stuff for them.
I had to work my @$$ off to get that Mugen MBX5 buggy, and then some snot nosed kid goes in a hobby store, begs and pleads, and he gets the buggy and doesnt even know how to use it.
I would just love to work in my LHS, then I could convince the parents of every bratty kid who wants some $600 Losi 8ight to just buy the kid a little tiny Micro-T, just to see the pissed off look on the kids face when he doesnt get what he wants.
And by no means am I an OG. I learn new stuff on here just about every day. Hell, I have had my NN super class crawler finished now for over 9 months, and I am still modding stuff, and I still cant even drive it that well. And then these kids come into crawling and expect the crawler to go up the living room walls. They want instant gratification, and that just DOES NOT HAPPEN in crawling. But I also think RTR's a good way to expand the hobby, but on the other hand, I think that it lets too many people in who want everything to work the way they want it to and right now. And the sad thing is, that has already happened in regular RC.
And one thing I have though about, and although it would not be really great for the companies who would make an RTR crawler, but I think they should make a very limited amount of RTR crawlers, like the AX-10, to keep these out of the hands of brat kids who want it right now and want it to do everything right now. But unfortunately, that wont happen, and crawling will explode like a nuclear bomb soon, and the people who made crawling big and the people who are really good at it (like alot of the OG's on here) will become a rare breed, just like profesional RC racers who actually know what the hell they are doing. And that will leave crawling innovations up to the manufacturers, and that is a very scary though.
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