[Archers] Youth Archery

[loreleielkins at aol.com]

Greetings!  I don't know of list or forum specifically for youth archers and I can understand their feeling of isolation.  Our local group has one youth archer who is continually voicing his opinion about having to compete with the adults.  I don't see a separate youth archery program starting up any time soon, but I'm not sure there is a need for one.  In archery, we tend to take the youth under our wing and include them on the line with the adults.  This seems to work very well, as they learn from experienced archers.  I agree with Nuala that Pennsic seems to be the place where youth archers can get together.  


I do encourage all local groups and marshals to recognize the efforts of the youth archers and when holding events, to make sure there is a  youth category in the competitive shoots.  A separate youth shoot is also desirable. You may get one youth archer showing up, you may get 10, but at least they know they are being encouraged to participate. In general I think we do a pretty good job of this.


New ideas are always welcome.
Lorelei





-----Original Message-----
From: Holly Gibbons <holly0920 at yahoo.com>
To: Summer Rain <summerrain.wa at gmail.com>
Cc: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 10:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Archers] Youth Archery



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.
 




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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