[Archers] Lets remember bows are a personal choice

Mon Jun 27 15:22:03 PDT 2011

Archers, We've read too many emails about bow types and attitudes.  So here is 
another one.  We just had a very fine royal archery championship, or whatever 
they are calling it these days.  Thanks to something like 60 or 70 archers who 
are either my friends or I haven't met you yet we had a wonderful event to 
enjoy.  My experience during the past 8 years in Atlantian archery is that it 
takes a lot of us to make the game fun for all of us.  And each of us is free to 
play the game as we want to play it.  Any persona, any bow type, any level of 
skill, any age, gender, etc is fine as long as you can connect it to the middle 
ages with some thread of reality.  So we all chose to be different in many many 
ways.  And we chose to play with many different goals.  Then we do the best we 
can with what we've got.  Some of us are older, younger, wiser, prettier, 
stronger, bigger, crazier, smarter, more experienced, injured, whatever.  So my 
point is that there are no circumstances where two archers will be perfectly 
evenly matched when they step up to the line.  One got more sleep the night 
before, another pulls a heaver or faster bow that shoots flatter.    One is too 
excited to think straight and the other is too tired to shoot straight.

I personally think crossbows are more precise than my longbow and my period bow. 
 Heck, my long bow is more precise than my period bow.  So if precision was my 
thing, I would shoot a crossbow.  But it is not.  Neither is maximizing the 
precision of hand bows.  If it was, I would shoot a compound bow like most of 
the archers that come to our practice range or I would shoot an olympic style 
recurve.  But that's not the game I want to play. And it seems neither do any 
other SCA archers.   I want to play in the SCA.  I want to see what I can 
achieve with the bows I have and the arrows I cobble together in my dream of the 
middle ages with sun screen.

I was tickled pink to see Miles win last year with a recurve bow and tickled 
again to see Mors win this year.  Two years, two bow types.  Cool.  Both Myles 
and Mors worked really hard for several years to achieve their victories. 
 Vivat.  

So I would really like us all to enjoy playing with the bow of our choice and if 
your bow does not satisfy you, try to get one that will help you pursue your own 
goal.

In the mean time, lets remember that we are playing to have fun and having fun 
depends on us all helping each other have fun and every one is free to shoot the 
bow of their choice.

Timothy of Shaftesbury and Roshu

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:25:41 -0400
From: "Jay Nardone" <jaynardone at comcast.net>
To: <archers at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: [Archers] My thanks to everyone!
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I wanted to just say a simple thank you to all of my peers, friends and SCA 
family that took the time to support me in receiving the Companion of the Yew 
Bow at Storvik this weekend. I didn?t join the SCA to receive awards and I don?t 
look for recognition when I volunteer in helping where I can. I am deeply 
thankful that so many people took the time and effort to support me for this 
award. I wanted to say thank you to Lord Godai for his support and 
encouragement. I wanted to say thank you for all of the support that was 
presented on my behalf. I also wanted to say thank you to Lady Esperanza for the 
unimaginable amount of hours she must have put into the creation of my scroll. I 
am still in awe over its beauty! So thank you all once again, it is touching to 
know so many care and provide support!

In Service?.

Janyn Fletcher

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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:52:52 -0400
From: "John Atkins" <cogworks at triad.rr.com>
To: "'Jay Nardone'" <jaynardone at comcast.net>,
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Subject: Re: [Archers] My thanks to everyone!
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Janyn,
In your own words "I didn't join the SCA to receive awards and I don't
look for recognition when I volunteer in helping where I can" is the
essence of this Order and why you are now a member.

Welcome,

Christophe of Grey

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Nardone
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:26 PM
To: archers at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [Archers] My thanks to everyone!

I wanted to just say a simple thank you to all of my peers, friends and
SCA family that took the time to support me in receiving the Companion
of the Yew Bow at Storvik this weekend. I didn't join the SCA to receive
awards and I don't look for recognition when I volunteer in helping
where I can. I am deeply thankful that so many people took the time and
effort to support me for this award. I wanted to say thank you to Lord
Godai for his support and encouragement. I wanted to say thank you for
all of the support that was presented on my behalf. I also wanted to say
thank you to Lady Esperanza for the unimaginable amount of hours she
must have put into the creation of my scroll. I am still in awe over its
beauty! So thank you all once again, it is touching to know so many care
and provide support!

In Service..

Janyn Fletcher

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