[Archers] Youth Archery

[Holly Gibbons]

Dearest Anne Rose: 

In Atlantia there's no separate youth archery program so our kids shoot royal 
rounds like everyone else. I don't think Ceridwyn ever scored from the 40 until 
she moved out of her 14 bow and got the 20 she has now. The few youth archers 
all know each other up here in the north, but I wouldn't say that my children 
were really looking for other children to be archers with. Instead I think 
they really appreciated the advice and mentoring of adults in the sca, and they 
have always enjoyed competing against adults (Godai who is iinfinitely kind and 
patient and wise will attest to how much pleaseure Ceridwyn has had trying to 
catch up to him - - to no avail). 


The IKAC has both children's and youth divisions but it has crazy rules - - as 
soon as you score well they kick you out even if you are 7 years old, and you 
have to shoot the adult IKAC distances, post scores on the adult list, and 
there's no way to identify who is a child on the list. So the youth of the known 
world have no way of knowing how they stack up against youth from other 
kingdoms, and the designation of "winner" in the child or youth division of the 
IKAC is completely meaningless. 


BTW, the one place Ceridwyn has made really good friends among other youth 
archers is at Pennsic. She has a regular gang there. The other place to find 
good youth archers is at a traditional bow event like we have here at Baltimore 
Bowmen every spring. 


How old is your young archer friend? Ceridwyn is 12 and I could pass along a 
message if you like. She has a facebook page, which is another option for 
getting them connected. What about Pietre and Oilliam, the bright young 
archers of Bright Hills? They are about the same age, too. Lorelei might know of 
other good tween archers in the south of Atlantia.




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From: Summer Rain <summerrain.wa at gmail.com>
To: Holly Gibbons <holly0920 at yahoo.com>
Cc: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 1:21:41 PM
Subject: Youth Archery


An Tir's rules changed for youth archery effective yesterday, because of the 
fact that there are some Damn good young archers. Unfortunately, the one youth 
archer I know here, feels very isolated, as she's the only youth archer she 
knows who is as good as she is. I did tell here there were others, albeit in 
other kingdoms, but she's not alone.
Is there an email list for the youth archers to learn about each other? Or 
something? 

Yep my bow is glaring..I'm shooting my mouth off again :) 
Anne rose
Sigrids Other Archer minion


      
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