[Archers] Fall Coronation Request from Their Highnesses

[John Atkins]

Anyone is free to use my ideas.....................and if the archers
complain tell them where it came from..................I guess (see post
below - Thank you sooooooo much kingdom archery champ  :-)  ).  In truth
I was supposed to run the Grand Exhibition Tournament at Gulf Wars one
year but had to cancel two months before due to mundane commitments.
They used the frame drop shot.  Now realize the GET is supposed to be
for the best archers from each attending kingdom so many of the same
folks who are on the masters team at Pennsic where participating.  Well
I can't use the words that would accurately describe what they said or
how they felt about the shot as this is supposed to be a family list but
it validated for me that it was a real challenge!  Trimaris won the
shoot by the way and were the ONLY team who successfully completed it.
Now as for teams of experienced and novice, it could still be done.  If
the novice shoots the balloon the expert would have to shoot the frame.
 
OK, then, from the ever fertile mind (I know others would have other
words to describe my mind but this is supposed to be a family list!)
another idea.  A lever arm with a pointer hanging down from the middle
pivot point.  Think of a two platform scale/balance with the arrow
pointing up but in this case the arrow/indicator would be pointing down.
Evenly distributed along each arm are balloons filled with water such
that the arm is perfectly balanced horizontal when fully loaded.  Two
teams against each other.  Team A gets the right side, team B gets the
left side.  The objective is to shoot all the water balloons causing the
indicator to swing in your favor.  An alternative to this would be to
limit the number of arrows each team can shoot, say 8.  Thus team A
novice shoots their side, then team B novice shoots their side one shaft
each.  Then team A expert shoots, then team B expert shoots, one shaft
each.  Continue until each team has shot their designed number of
shafts, i.e. 8 each team, 4 per team member.  The team that wins is the
team with the highest score on the indicator.  The number of shafts per
team would/could match the number of water balloons on each side of the
swing arm or there could be only 4 balloons and shooting continues until
either all balloons are shot or all shafts are used.  Extra points could
be awarded for shafts not used if all balloons shot, i.e. it only took 5
shafts to hit 4 balloons, award the 3 unused shafts.  By the way, the
swing arm needs a spring or bungee cord attachment to assist with the
weight differential.  That is, once one water balloon is shot you don't
want the swing arm to swing to maximum, it should only lift a little.
This is totally doable!  This was also used in the GET at Gulf Wars.
Ask Seamus, he shot it as well.  It was also a great crowd pleaser.
 
General note:  Whatever shots are used, I believe for the purpose
intended here, should be crowd pleasers.  That is, shots that some how
involve the crowd/non-archer onlookers.  Simple things like colored
balloons on the butt.  The crowd calls out the color to be shot.  Each
team is limited to X number of shafts per team member.  So the crowd
yells YELLOW.  That team member needs to shoot yellow using one shaft.
If they miss and hit a wrong color they forfeit one shaft from their
remaining shafts.
 
Told ya I got lots of ideas!  Some seriously diabolical too.  Haven't
gotten to those yet..........................
 
cog

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Sprouse [mailto:sprousecp at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:39 AM
To: John Atkins; archers at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Archers] Fall Coronation Request from Their Highnesses


Cog, that sounds like an AWESOME shoot for like a lochmere arrow type
team competition, but (if I understood the earlier post which I may not
have) the teams are made up of one high-ranked and one newer archer, in
which case that may be a little too cog, i mean evil, for those teams,
lol.  But GREAT idea nonetheless.
 
:)
 
KvK

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