[Archers] royal rounds

Thu Dec 7 06:49:50 PST 2017

Was about to respond and wrote a post..

Thanks for the inspiration Excellency Evelynne Merrymet

http://periodpersonas.com/village/2017/12/get-those-archery-scores-in-royal-rounds-ikac-and-ikcac/

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Jonathas <Jonathas at redfoxden.org> wrote:

> I agree that Royal Rounds are important.  At least once a month when we
> are outdoors I dedicate our Archery Practice to Royal Rounds and we shoot
> several.  I would encourage the same at as Royal Rounds are a great
> benchmark for how your archers are currently shooting and show their
> improvement over time.
>
> Jonathas
>
> On Dec 7, 2017 8:27 AM, "JAY NARDONE" <jaynardone at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Baroness, I completely agree with you and when I was DEM I encouraged
>> those MIC's who ran events to try to also hold a few rounds of Royal
>> Rounds. It is not always possible with the room given to archery at events
>> but I think it is a great place to offer them because of the amount of new
>> comers we get at events vise practices. The problem I have seen in the past
>> it takes that many more marshals to run in addition to the event, not
>> saying it cant be done it just requires some additional planning.
>>
>> While it is true that many of us who have reached GBE are not interested
>> in RR any longer, there are many who still are and we should do our part to
>> support them.
>>
>> In Service,
>>
>> Janyn
>>
>>
>> On December 7, 2017 at 1:21 AM Stephen Kiefert <lanhamlaw at att.net> wrote:
>>
>> Royal Rounds Rant from Evelynne
>>
>>     I know I have been a nudge about getting Royal Rounds to happen in
>> the kingdom and every time I make a plea for Royal Rounds I see confusion
>> on the faces around me.  So I want to explain why that is a priority for me.
>>
>>     As Baroness of course I am all about making the barony look good, and
>> more archers on the kingdom list makes us look good, but it is more than
>> that.  I want our archers to have fun and be challenged to improve.  We
>> have a fair number of archers in Black Diamond and only two archers on the
>> list.  Than in itself is reason to get the Royal Rounds going and show our
>> numbers even if we are all novice or archer level.  It is more than that
>> however, it is a tool for self improvement.
>>
>>     Once you are on the list you can clearly see your ranking in the
>> whole Kingdom and you can see how much you need to get just one number
>> higher on that list.   Getting from Novice to Archer may be hard and from
>> Archer to Marksman even harder and lord knows I spent three years getting
>> from Marksman to Bowman.  Now my challenge is to get back to Bowman having
>> fallen back to Marksman with lack of practice.  The numbers on the kingdom
>> list make it possible to have smaller goals that are reachable in shorter
>> periods of time.  That works two ways.  If I have an average of say 43 from
>> my current three listed best rounds this year I only need one good round
>> scored by a marshal to get a 44.  Victory is sweet even in small amounts
>> and having made that goal gives me the encouragement to try for 45.  If I
>> am number 89 on the kingdom list with an average of 35 say, I can see on
>> the list that the next person above me is at 35.6.  I only need to get to
>> 36 to rise in the ranks to number 88.  If I wait too long however I may
>> find someone below me has taken my place as 89 and I have to practice to
>> hold my standing.  Either way I have small goals and large goals and I can
>> track my improvement against a large field of archers.  Other folks at my
>> practice is nice but my focus can be on my own development even if no one
>> else shows up.  Just shooting at a hay bale doesn’t let you know if you are
>> getting better.
>>
>>     The kingdom archery community has made it as easy as possible by
>> allowing any marshal to score and report even without an official
>> practice.  I am pestering the kingdom archers to at least make Royal Rounds
>> available at events, that has not gone well, but I keep asking and
>> eventually you will hear me.
>>
>>     I brought it up again at Unevent target archery and got the same
>> blank looks than mean no Royal Rounds at events will be coming soon.  The
>> top ranked archers are so bored with that.  They just want novelty to shoot
>> at because it is more fun at that level.  I agree novelty shoots are fun.
>> Maybe they can do royal rounds locally but that is not true for many
>> archers.  Something is not working well.  There are only 61 current royal
>> round scores in a kingdom of over 2000.  They did however hear me out and
>> the group suggested we try to get gun clubs to let us shoot at their
>> ranges.  They often have over a hundred yards to work with, I am told, and
>> sometimes that will be indoors for winter practice.  I have asked my
>> populace to scout that out so I thank you all for that suggestion.  Would
>> it be so hard to run a Royal Round off to the side once or twice in a full
>> day of archery at events?  It doesn’t have to occupy anyone all day.  I’ll
>> keep working at it on the home front.
>>
>>     The Kingdom list really worked for me and I want to spread the love
>> of archery.  Thanks for listening.
>>
>> Evelynne Merrymet
>> Baroness of Black Diamond
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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