These days most top wave sailors spend very little time competing as the type of conditions required ( massive swells producing clean, well-spaced waves and strong winds blowing cross-offshore ) are very hard to guarantee months in advance ( when planning an event ).

For example, in the recent Team Racing Worlds, and certainly the American Team Racing Nationals, most of the sailors competing in the event were amateurs.

The sailors were a mix of physically and visually impaired men and women competing together.

Your competition is now proportionately greater -- you are competing not only against manufacturers in the same field but also against a vast array of manufacturers of other appealing consumer products.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

As widespread inefficiencies in numbering ( such as the assignment of entire blocks of 10000 numbers to every competing carrier in every small village to support local number portability schemes ) have created shortages of available numbers, these prefixes are often " reclaimed " and issued as standard exchanges, moving the handful of numbers in them to one standard test exchange ( usually 958 ).

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

These medications are among those most commonly prescribed by psychiatrists and other physicians, and their effectiveness and adverse effects are the subject of many studies and competing claims.

There is some uncertainty as to how Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah came to be attached to the original Isaiah: the two competing theories are either that Deutero-Isaiah was written as a continuation of Proto-Isaiah, or that it was written separately and became attached to the famous Isaiah later.

There are several competing theories, none of which is definitive.

Electric lights are most common, with halogen lamps being standard and white LEDs as the new competing technology.

The forward and reverse reactions are competing with each other and differ in reaction rates.

This version of croquet varies from six-wicket croquet in that there are nine wickets, two stakes, and players usually compete individually with a single ball, with up to six players competing.

How the word came into Spanish is less certain, and there are multiple competing explanations.

The results are broadly consistent with those expected from cosmic inflation as well as various other competing theories, and are available in detail at NASA's data bank for Cosmic Microwave Background ( CMB ) ( see links below ).

Breckman and McLean have penned competing renditions of the origins of this feud, both of which are available online.

1 ) The discount rate assumption relies on the market for competing investments at the time of the analysis, which would likely change, perhaps dramatically, over time, and 2 ) straight line assumptions about income increasing over ten years are generally based upon historic increases in market rent but never factors in the cyclical nature of many real estate markets.

When elections are called, politicians and their supporters attempt to influence policy by competing directly for the votes of constituents in what are called campaigns.

In cases when the use of null hypotheses is not appropriate, ecologists may adopt different kinds of statistical methods, such as the Akaike information criterion, or use models that can become mathematically complex as " several competing hypotheses are simultaneously confronted with the data.

There are competing views regarding the common traits uniting these currents, not all of which involve " inwardness ", mystery, occultism or secrecy as a crucial trait.

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days ' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams.

Figure skaters competing at the highest levels of international competition are not " professional " skaters.

The materials in which the exchange interaction is much stronger than the competing dipole-dipole interaction are frequently called magnetic materials.

Sapphire uses the Gibtelecom ADSL concentrator to reach customers that are outside their own network, and sells high Internet bandwidth services and internet connectivity competing directly with Gibtelecom.

Since the company's beginnings, Ferrari has been involved in motorsport, competing in a range of categories including Formula One and sports car racing through its Scuderia Ferrari sporting division as well as supplying cars and engines to other teams and for one make series.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

The intention to create the racing modes of the game had been present from the start of the project and Battle Mode was developed from the desire to create a one-on-one mode where victory was not determined simply by competing for rank.

Brazil also has a successful stock car racing series, with starting grids of 40 or more cars, and four brands competing: Chevrolet, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen and Peugeot.

ventured into motor racing, with drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24 HP models.

ventured into motor racing, with drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24 HP models.

" Contendings " describes the two gods appealing to various other deities to arbitrate the dispute and competing in different types of contests, such as racing in boats or fighting each other in the form of hippopotami, to determine a victor.

In national rather than international racing, sports car competition in the 1950s and early 1960s tended to reflect what was locally popular, with the cars that were successful locally often influencing each nation's approach to competing on the international stage.

Some events contain " super special stages " where two competing cars set off on two parallel tracks ( often small enough to fit in a football stadium ), giving the illusion they are circuit racing head to head.

* Team Red Bull – a racing team competing in the U. S .- based stock car racing competition NASCAR Red Bull Racing Team competed in NASCAR beginning in 2007.

The Shanghai Race Club continues today as a social racing club for wealthy Mainland Chinese race horse owners competing in international races.

When a professional Italian cycling team comes to town for a racing event, Dave is thrilled to be competing with them.

Ralliart ( later Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports ), was Mitsubishi's racing subsidiary, although the company ceased competing formally in 2010.

The Formula Fast Karting centre, a kart racing circuit itself designed by former Formula One race engineers, was established in 2009 as a leisure facility for the public, as well as offering training and technical support to drivers competing in karting across the UK.

The lavish rock star-like treatment given to Romero in his attempt to build a designer-centred game studio ( including a multi-million dollar office on the top floor of a Dallas skyscraper ), Romero's well-publicized expensive tastes and hobbies ( such as racing Ferraris ), the dubious saga of Romero's girlfriend, professional gamer Stevie " Killcreek " Case, being hired on as a level designer, and the game's development ( which included most of the original development team quitting en masse to form a competing company called Gathering of Developers ), incited criticism from the online gaming fan community.

Despite these safety precautions, the ski racing community is well aware of the inherent risks in Downhill skiing, for it is possible for racers to suffer serious injury or death while practicing or competing.

America ’ s Cup is a category of sailing called match racing in which two similar boats go head to head in a race or set of races to decide which boat has the better crew competing on board.

Rambling Willie sustained " bowed tendons " in both front legs early in his ten-plus-year racing career, as well as other nagging injuries expected in a racehorse competing for so long a period.

Rubens Gonçalves " Rubinho " Barrichello (, born 23 May 1972 in São Paulo ) is a racing driver from Brazil, best known for competing in Formula One between and.

At the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix he had the helmet livery of fellow Brazilian and Barrichello's good friend Tony Kanaan, who in turn had Barrichello's helmet livery while racing in 2006 Indianapolis 500 which was held on the same day because they said it would be the closest either of them would get to competing in the biggest race of the year of the category the other raced in.

Jim Douglas is a down-on-his luck racing driver, reduced to competing in demolition derby races against drivers half his age.

After watching Jim and Herbie win their first race together, Thorndyke, himself a major force on the local racing scene, offers to cancel the remaining payments Jim owes on Herbie if Jim can win a race that they will both be competing in at Riverside later that month.

In Europe competing dogs need a coursing licence or racing licence for official national and international lure coursing trials, obtained through a racing or coursing club, and are principally run in braces only of the same breed, or run solo.