Murray wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 9:16 am
If you are interested in pigeon racing, and it appears you are, I suggest you google Ad Schaerlaeckens.
Ad has been a champion racer in Holland for decades. He also is an author and journalist. Ad has interviewed the greatest pigeon racers in Belgium and Holland over the last 50 years.
Read his blog and articles. You have to do two things.
First, make allowance for the fact that it is translated to English.
Second, get the idea out of your head that where you are is where the best fanciers live.
Do that and you will learn more than you could possibly imagine.
Whilst Ad is a good fancier, but he comes across as arrogant, much of what he writes is just common sense. I've not read anything he's written that I haven't read elsewhere.
Devo1956 wrote: Wed Aug 27, 2025 8:01 am
I think when you look at different flyers around the world, Some can be straight, and you feel they can be abrupt. But when you are talking to them for a while, you find this is their way of life.over years through generations of families keeping racing pigeons, things become the norm. If you look at the Janssen family, they all had their tasks to do, but there was a couple of jokers in the pack. I think it was a few years ago that I remember our club was like that, all doing different tasks to get the birds through. But everyone of us were different but equal. All playing our part, but there was always a joker. Sadly missed in the sport now, or is it.
My old club ran like a clock. Marking was very quick. When on manual clocks a full result (by hand using a pocket calculator) for 40+ members was done in under an hour.
