[Archers] Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 142, Issue 2

[Michael]

Thanks Kryss! I wish I could make it to Pennsic this year, as your class
sounds quite interesting. If you happen to be able to make it to War of the
Wings this fall, I bet we would have an attentive audience for your class
there as well.

Eirik

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Frank Felix <lthrgryphn at aol.com> wrote:

> I've been doing a lot of research on atlatls recently. Australia is one of
> the places where they were recently used, along with the arctic and Papua
> New Guinea, but there are still two places in the world where atlatls are
> still being used today and not by re-creationists! There are some remote
> tribes in Brazil that use atlatls for ceremonial war games for their young
> men and atlatls are still being used today around Lake Metaxa in Mexico for
> fishing.
>
> There are many different shapes of atlatls in and around Australia. The
> paddle shape is only one of them, but I think it is the most interesting.
> It's like the world's first multi-tool. There are also long flat ones,
> short narrow ones, long sticks with tiny hooks, long skinny ones that cut
> through the air, and more.
>
> I'm going to be teaching a class at Pennsic called Atlatls of the World.
> It will be held up at the thrown weapons range (the atlatl range) where we
> can try out some of the atlatls I have re-created for the class.
>
> YIS,
>
> Kryss Kostarev
>
> Michael <michaelstuart at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm currently in eastern Lochac for work for a few days, so sadly, no
> archery for me at the moment, though it is an awesome place to visit
> despite this drawback. Also (archery content) it's the location of the most
> recent historic usage of the atl-atl anywhere in the world, except for
> possibly in the Arctic, where its use also persisted into the post-Society
> time frame.
>
> My present location was historically the land of the Eora people, from
> whose language we get the word woomera, the term now used more generically
> for all aboriginal atl-atls that originally would have had their own names
> in each language. The woomera is shaped more like a long flat bowl than a
> straight stick, but it has the same hook to hold the butt of the dart that
> our atl-atls do. The bowl shape could double as a way to transport damp
> foodstuffs, and the woomera apparently sometimes also had a sharp stone
> edge affixed to one end with tree resin for use as a cutting implement, so
> these were a multipurpose tool.
>
> in service,
>
> Eirik Gralokkr
>
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>> Just curious about what everyone is up to.  What have you been shooting
>> lately?  What's happening at your events?
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>> I just got done with the Return to Crecy event this past weekend.  It was
>> a lot of fun. All archery points went toward the side of the English and
>> the Equestrian points went to the French.  We had 33 people shoot over the
>> course of the day, with about 5 or 6 of those being newcomers.
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>> It was a lot of fun.  Miles de awesome won the prize shoot, and also had
>> the highest accumulation of war points. (But who's counting.)
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