[Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 107, Issue 4

Sun Aug 12 03:36:30 PDT 2012

Jynyn,
    Congratulations, please do not forget that combat archery and horse
back archery are both on the rise in the SCA and are both part of a whole
in the picture of historical archery.
                                      Thanks,
     Archer Bear Horseman of Rockbridge
On Aug 11, 2012 8:52 PM, <archers-request at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org> wrote:

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>    1. Atlantia Target Archery DEM Change (Jay Nardone)
>    2. Pennsic Champion's Team report (Jay Nardone)
>    3. St. Aidan (Gordon Kinnie)
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> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:45:52 -0400
> From: "Jay Nardone" <jaynardone at comcast.net>
> To: <archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: [Archers] Atlantia Target Archery DEM Change
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> My brothers and sisters of the bow, I wanted to wait until the official
> transfer was completed prior to sending my hello note. For those of you
> that
> don't know, at Pennsic this year, during the St. Sebastian's II shoot, the
> King and Queen held court to transfer the DEM position from THL Lorelei
> Greenleaf to me. First of all I want to say a heartfelt thank THL Lorelei
> Greenleaf for all she has done, she is a mentor and true friend of mine and
> inspiration to us all. I am excited to have been given this opportunity and
> look forward to serving the Kingdom and all of you. Someone wrote and
> congratulated me and said they would be proud to work for me, but I look at
> it just the opposite, I am here to work for you all, my marshals and
> friends. Without your attention to detail, dedication and thoughts and
> ideas, we would not have the shining example of archery that we enjoy in
> Atlantia and the known world.
>
>
>
> I am excited to get to work on the items I feel are needing attention in
> our
> Kingdom. I would like to announce that THL Seamus McRay will be my
> Emergency
> DEM, I view his position as a partner and will look to him to share in
> supporting archery in our Kingdom. I know some might be concerned that both
> of us reside in the Northern part of Atlantia. I want to assure you all
> that
> this will not be an issue, most of you that know me know that I try to
> attend most of the archery related and other Kingdom events that I can. In
> the event that I can't attend an event I would look to Seamus and our
> regional marshals to provide coverage as they have in the past.
>
>
>
> I have already started a list and after initially talking with Sir Otto, I
> will move out on working those action items. I have already re-written the
> Target Archery Marshal class handout and teachers notes and will be posting
> them on the Kingdom Archery site. I am currently finishing the 1st edition
> of the Atlantia Target Archery Handbook. After approval from Sir Otto and
> the Crown, it will also be posted. This will be a one stop place for new
> archers and all of us to have all the pertinent information required to
> describe archery in Atlantia to include rules, Marshallate information, MIT
> class information and MIT form. Some of the other items include a revamp of
> our regional marshals responsibilities, I would like to make their
> involvement more effective and get them to assist with marshal renewals,
> expired classes and memberships, etc.
>
>
>
> Someone asked me earlier this year what my agenda was? That took me a back
> a
> bit because on thinking about this I have no agenda, well alright I do have
> an agenda but it is simple. My agenda is to have fun and keep Atlantia
> Archery safe, if you're not having fun your doing it wrong! This won't be
> the last time you hear me say that. So to answer this question, here is my
> answer:
>
>
>
> 1.       Educate our autocrats and marshals to work more closely together.
> I
> would like to see archery be held in a more central location to the event
> as
> long as the site permits from a safety perspective. I would like to see our
> marshals be more proactive with autocrats so they work together early
> enough
> in planning that archery is not an afterthought and site layout is planned
> correctly.
>
> 2.       Continue to educate our marshal's on our rules and how to enforce
> them properly. I have heard of 6 instances now already this year where
> marshal's "made up" rules which caused archers who drove great distances
> not
> to be able to shoot. I will always support marshal's erring on the side of
> safety, but I don't want people turned away for "made up" rulings. We have
> decent and recently updated rules and I would like to see them enforced
> properly.
>
> 3.       Correct the multiple small issues with incorrect data on the Earl
> Marshal's page as well as our Atlantia Archery page. I would like updated
> data to be stored in one location and all other pages to simply link to
> that
> data. This will assure that we only have to update data in one location and
> the links will always point you to that correct data.
>
> 4.       Implement a simple multiple choice test for MIT's to better align
> us with the other disciplines.
>
> 5.       Implement a Marshal's Warrant ID card that Warranted Marshal's
> will
> need to show to identify themselves as marshal's. It will be renewed yearly
> based on your membership and marshal's class standings.
>
>
>
> Those of you that know me, know how serious I am about archery in the SCA.
> I
> will promise you all that I will always listen to your ideas and thoughts
> but we might not always agree. That is perfectly alright and normal but I
> will not support negativity, whining and finger pointing. We have too much
> to do and need to work together to accomplish it all. Some things are meant
> to be discussed in the forums and others might not. I would like to form a
> "core" group of target archery marshals (TAMs) that represent the Baronies,
> Canton's, Shires, etc that make up Atlantia. I would look to these TAMs as
> the core to work certain issues with me when required. I would like to see
> St. Sebastian's continue and we even carry out the Known World Archery
> Tournament like THL Christophe started the discussion for earlier this
> year.
> That tourney would take a dedicated team to pull off and much planning by
> this team. If we conduct it at Pennsic or not it still would be a huge and
> fruitful event. Of course I am only thinking out loud here, a little at a
> time.
>
>
>
> So in closing I want to say thank you all again for the welcomes, I look
> forward to working with you all. If you have questions, comments or
> concerns
> please let me know. I am honored to be given this chance to serve Atlantia
> and my friends and peers in the Archery community. I will do my best to
> keep
> archery exciting and safe in Atlantia.
>
>
>
> In Service,
>
>
>
> THL Janyn Fletcher of Lancastreshire
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:51:25 -0400
> From: "Jay Nardone" <jaynardone at comcast.net>
> To: <archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: [Archers] Pennsic Champion's Team report
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> I wanted to send a short report out on this year's Champion's team. I first
> of all want to thank everyone that came out to try out and support the
> Champion's team. This year was one of those strange ones and in the end
> Atlantia had 15 Atlantian's on the Champions team. We were allowed 20
> primaries with 4 alternates. I want to thank Lord Ghijskijn for his
> assistance with practices, it was a big help to me and freed me up to pay
> attention to those that we did not know of their abilities. There was some
> confusion this year on the part of our Ally's Archer General. It turned out
> that he was very distracted (he was elevated to Pelican during Pennsic) and
> did no prior planning. During the Champion's shoot we discovered that a
> complete team of 4 was missing from the field. The new Archer General was
> continually claiming that the missing team was Atlantian's but I assured
> him
> that all of our primaries were accounted for and actually shooting on the
> field. What really upsets me still is that our 4 alternates could have
> stepped in and shot but were not asked until after lunch when the roving
> range was already torn down and the only remaining targets were the walk-up
> and friend/foe.
>
>
>
> I sat down with the Archer General yesterday to discuss this mistake and I
> think I understand what happened now. Aethelmaerc never had all 20 slots
> filled with 4 alternates as he told me again and again. There was never any
> roster made as I had worked from the first day of practice. I was
> instructed
> that I needed to carry those from North Shield, Trimaris and Meridies. I
> did
> just that and the other 5 members of our team were comprised of those
> individuals but the morning of the shoot he counted 4 of them even though
> they were in line in our teams. On top of that he only had 1 alternate to
> give when required. So long story short, the Allies lost by roughly 206
> points that could have been shot by our alternate team members.
>
>
>
> So next year no matter who we are allied with, I press my counterpart much
> harder to assure they are on top of things. I want to thank everyone again
> who participated, I really enjoyed shooting with you all and I can say that
> Atlantia brought it's "A" game as usual! I also noted a few things that we
> only have 9 sash's now and need more to complete a team of 20. Also now
> that
> I am apprenticed in metal working and pewter casting, I will make up some
> tokens of my thanks for this year's team members and next.
>
>
>
>
>
> In Service,
>
>
>
> THL Janyn Fletcher
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:52:37 -0400
> From: "Gordon Kinnie" <am_piobaire at comcast.net>
> To: <archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: [Archers] St. Aidan
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> To all that did not attend Pennsic.
>
> Let it be known that THL Seamus McRay of Bright Hills was made a member of
> the Company of Sergeants of Saint Aidan.
>
> He is the first combat archer ever added to this order.
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> Congratulations Seamus.
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> Godai
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