It all started in 1991 when I was introduced to rocketry by my 8th grade metal shop teacher. We built small Estes rockets . Mainly: Big Berthas , Zingers , & my first rocket the Reliant. I bought a Patriot starter set that summer , but I couldn't buy rocket motors for my rockets because back then NJ required you to be 18 & a license to buy them . I was only 15 at the time. So rockets went by the waist side until that law was repealed a couple years later....... When I got back into rocketry a year or so after the law was changed I found out  there was life after a : D engine. So I attended my first HP launch at a near by fair grounds . Where I launched  my first F motor :a Vulcan (aka: Spock motor) F 80 Hell Fire. Much to my amazement I saw everything from an Estes A up to an Aerotech I 357 reload for the first time . Launched by : Bill Rossi & soon  to be Metra ( Metropolitan Rocket Association ) president . My reaction was : Man , is that motor loud. I have got to get myself one of those motors! That year I attended R.A.T.S II ( Roar At The Shore 2 ) in Cedarville, NJ hosted by Garden State Tripoli <br>and saw an M 1939 motor fly for the first time. From then on I was hooked.