[Archers] Pennsic

[Janyn Fletcher]

Two things here..

 

I must have missed the part about beginners, I would say if they are not
welcomed we should not even hold this. I typically help around 20-40
beginners every year at Pennsic, and it is one of my loves. It is very
rewarding to see them have fun and shoot and also be saved from the
"grilling" that the East marshal's love to impose on them.

 

Secondly, the area behind the marshal's tent with the trailers is where I
have asked for the last 2 years to have re-arranged to accommodate more room
for other things. Was met with great resistance and that was that, hoping
the new blood at least gives us a chance!

 

From: archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Holly
Gibbons
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:46 PM
To: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Archers] Pennsic

 

Dear Comrades-in-Bows:

 

Wow! SO many good ideas. Thank you Rowan for your boosterism, thank you Mika
for your endless and extremely helpful wisdom, thank you Janyn and Bright
Hills, for always being ready to work, thank you all archers for taking this
on, thank you Lorelei, Fearless Leader.

 

I agree with Mika on the back 40. It was only a vain hope to get the whole
range. There's plenty of room back around the trailers to have 10 or 12
stations if they'll let us. As to targets, we don't usually use butts except
for warmups and folks can do that on the regular range. My standing targets
are all foam and cardboard and strap to rebar. Because of this I would have
to say that I don't think you can have every archer at Pennsic shoot this
thing - - how many of us are there? The targets might not last 1000 shots
each. You can also have a limited # of shots to preserve targets. Like
Reynard's shoots with one arrow per target. If you shoot 8 arrows per archer
and there are 100 archers, you definitely have a target-falling-apart
problem. I adore Luce's ground snakes, but 800 shots?

 

So while I agree that elitism is not what we want here, I would vote that
the shoot be restricted to bowmen and above. The targets are going to be
difficult, arrows will be lost, and we will have lots of archers to get
through the shoot. I am not really interested in running a gigantic event
for everyone, as fun as that would be: I am interested in having an
expert-level kingdom/individual known world championship that is completely
ouside the Pennsic war stuff.

 

As to individuals, kingdoms, averages, etc. Listen, if we let Mika's score
be the average for his Kingdom, this competition is already over! So I think
you all shoot for an individual score and then you can sum the best 10
scores (or pick 5 or another number) for each kingdom for the kingdom
competition. So Mika, you might have to drag out some more westerners to
shoot with you! And BTW, the day we pick has to be a day that does NOT have
combat archery going on   :)

  

(One last thought on the back 40  - - you would probably have to shut down
the "youth" (I know it's not called that anymore, but you know what I mean)
range to fully utilize the back field behind it. Just a caution. You'd need
that space and I don't think there's 100 yards but my memory for the space
isn't great.)

 

If those of you out there can get the politics under control, I volunteer to
run the advertising and be the shoot/target coordinator. I know we can count
on lots of good targets from Atlantian archers. I agree with Lorelei about
this being a lot of work, but many hands make light work, that's why
Jonathas' idea of everyone just bringing and being responsible for one
target is so brilliant. I don't think we need two days. Set up in the am,
shoot, take down. Again, we will not be able to handle an unlimited number
of archers without giving up too much of our Pennsic time.

 

{An aside: It's sad that all that effort making targets and setting up a big
shoot already goes into the champs competition and then we cannot use it for
this shoot - - but the politics are unsurmountable, I guess. But really, the
very nicest thing for the Mid/East Pandas to do would be to let "Atlantia
and other Kingdoms" have a third champs team of their own - - something we
have heard here has been tried unsuccessfully before. Last summer only 7
Atlantians got to shoot while 28 Easters did. Therein the rub. Do those guys
have any idea how much deep, profound unhappiness this policy causes for
Atlantian Archers, all of us? I find it so hard to believe that they really
want all this bad karma swirling around the champs shoot every year when a
solution is right beofre them. If we had our own team, with 35 archers on
it, as each the Mid and East do, there would be more than enough happy,
happy Atlantian archers!}

   

I'm getting all worked up. Time to go shoot. ps: See you at Holiday Faire,
Lorelei!

 

Nuala of Needwood Forest

Geoffrey of Needwood Forest

 

 

 

 

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