For the first three years that I helped to organise our five round club championship we had four routes. Youth A, B, C & TY80 (previously there were just two routes,) putting on the extra routes doubled our entries over night.
Each route had a championship with a points table attached to every set of results and trophies for the top three at the end of the season.
Eventually due to lack of interest in the D class we dropped that and ran just three routes for a couple of years.
Last year at the prize presentation evening, I took home more trophies than I gave out.
Lack of regular entries has caused us to drop the championship. There were just three youth riders who rode in every trial.
If four routes, a championship for each and triophies down to third place doesn't help attract the youngsters, I am at a loss as to what I can do?
I whole heartedly welcome any suggestions or ideas on how to make our events more appealing to young people.
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first thing i'd look at is try and find out where they went did they give up because they found the section's to hard and did'nt like taking a fall,when they watch the pro's jump up a cliff face from a standing start they think they can do it, when i was a youth rider many years ago we could only dream of doing that on our old lumpy twinshock's,in them day's every rider was more or less equal not the case nowday's.That's probaly what your up against how capable are the rider's,confidence run's out quick with kid's.
Did you have practice day's.
