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<DIV><SPAN class=375103215-03022011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Uh,
two major archery events????? At SAAD this year we will be implementing
two youth divisions. Kids are 10 and younger. Youth are 11-13.
There will be special targets for these two categories when appropriate, i.e.
typically kids and youth use bows that are not effective at the longer clout
distances. In such case they will have shorter distance targets that score
the same points as adult distance targets. The age divisions were selected
based on expected bow draw weights per age. Typically a 14 year old or
older, who will be shooting with the adults, use a bow of 25 pound draw or
more. In some cases 30 pounds and up. A 25 pound bow set up
correctly can shoot an arrow 100 yards which is plenty for the SAAD shoot
stations. Youth archers are allowed a choice of which targets to shoot
at. i.e. if they choose to shoot the adult targets at a station that has
youth targets they will get bonus points for points scored. The idea is to
reward effort and accepting the challenge.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=375103215-03022011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>As in
the past there will be a "classification" shooting station known only to the
MIC, that would be me, the scores of which will divide the archers into four
groups. This way expert shoots against expert and novice against
novice. Keeping the classification station secret prevents anyone from
sand bagging their score on that station to be grouped in a lesser skilled
group. Thus there will be awards for the top three archers in all four
adult groups and both children's groups, six groups in total for 18
awards. SAAD staff are a generous lot!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=375103215-03022011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>cog</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=375103215-03022011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>MIC
for SAAD V</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Jonathas<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:32
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Jamie Frailey<BR><B>Cc:</B>
archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Archers] Archers
Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Running with Seamus'
idea...<BR><BR>What about mirroring at least the two major archery
competitions for the Youth?<BR><BR>At Royal Archer, allow the top 4 seeded
Youth to have a shoot off (unless there are a ton of youth then bump it to top
8). And at Lochmere Arrow have Youth teams only division.
<BR><BR>Thoughts?<BR>Jonathas<BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Jamie Frailey <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:jamie@designbyfive.com">jamie@designbyfive.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>We should all sponsor a youth archer for 2011. That would
be Win Win for of all of
us!<BR><BR><BR>Seamus<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>