For me, Pattern is a very negative sport.

I spend so much time looking for what's wrong and finding faults with my flying and equipment. Very rarely (if ever) do I say to my self "That double Immelman with full rolls was F-ing perfect" and I have NEVER yelled back to the pits with a "hey guys, check out this Figure M with 3/4 rolls!" or "Did you see that spin entry? Perfect nose drop before the rotation! Awesome!!"

It's a tough disipline to sell to onlookers and a tough disipline to maintain, most fliers are very happy to just get something into the air and keep it up. It's a simple joy I've lost and I admire (almost envy) them for still having it. My simple pleasure comes from free flight planes, small rubber band powered things and chuck gliders, getting one of those thing to fly well is still beyond me and is pure magic when I get a good flight but I'll never put a stopwatch on any of them because then the simple pleasure will be gone.

Probably an off-topic ramble......