[Archers] my take

[loreleielkins at aol.com]

Thank you, Baroness Martelle and all of you for this discussion. Great discourse.  I encourage everyone to take Martelle's challenge and WOW them at Crown Tournament with your archery A&S!  Show them your stuff.


I have been encouraging the entire archery community during my tenure as DEM (and more locally before that), and I'll keep saying it - to promote archery.  To talk it up, communicate with the autocrats, put your shoot results on the lists, entice people to your shoot, run a competition, write articles, sponsor a display or A&S and teach at University, Pennsic, on the field.  Make some noise. Submit your friends for awards, talk up their prowess. AND, talk and discuss things with each other, openly.  


I think the archery community as a whole has been doing this to a much greater degree the last few years.  No, not due to me, but due to all of us holding our chins higher and expecting more from ourselves and from the non archery community in general.  We've insisted on equal time in court when they hand out the prizes, not whined that we didn't get it, but expected it, and gotten it.  Yes, I think we still have a long way to go but we've come so very far!


Continue to invite the Crowns to shoot archery with you, continue to promote your events and show your excitement when someone has done well.  Believe me, people are noticing.  I too think that archery does not fit neatly into any peerage we currently have, and I support a 4th peerage because of that. It is my opinion, as others have stated, that so many of you are a complete package when it comes to archery, not just one small aspect of the art and that is why we don't fit in neatly. Well it's not a neat world and things aren't always fair, but we can work to make them more fair.  


ALWAYS behave in the best possible chivalrous manner and hold yourself to a higher standard.  I was told by two different Crowns, that archers are the most courteous people they had ever interacted with.  That's a win for us folks. 


This has been a great conversation, and I'm sure it isn't over.  We've identified a problem, now let's work on the solutions.  No, I don't think anyone has been whining, because as you all know, there IS no whining in Archery.


Lorelei
setting down her pom-poms


See you this weekend at Ymir or at University
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