I keep shooting the RU class because I enjoy shooting a recurve and am somewhat competetive. I agree the entry fees are going to start hurting, if they haven`t already. I would like to see a way of balance so that the pay outs could be larger and see if that draws more shooters. I won the world in the early 90`s with a payout of 700.00 and yardages up to 60 yards but it was all one class.There was around 90 shooters in the RU class.I did see payout go to almost 1200.00 for a couple of years. Then the yards got closer and this rule was changed and that rule was changed and pretty soon the RU class got split to RU and TRAD. It does seem like change happens alot with this class and as far as string/face walking, it really doesn`t matter because I`ve seen people do well against them doing thegap/instinctive shooting thing. When it comes to competing, you run what you brung, if you want to get to the top then you have to try different methods to see what works for you and if you stay as is then it`s practice, practice, practice to make it work well for you. I`ll stop rambling on and just say, see ya on the course andshoot`em in the middle.