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<DIV><SPAN class=984154914-10072012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>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. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=984154914-10072012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984154914-10072012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984154914-10072012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=984154914-10072012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Told
ya I got lots of ideas! Some seriously diabolical too. Haven't
gotten to those yet..........................</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=984154914-10072012><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>cog</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> Charles Sprouse
[mailto:sprousecp@yahoo.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:39
AM<BR><B>To:</B> John Atkins; archers@atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Archers] Fall Coronation Request from Their Highnesses<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>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.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>:)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>KvK</SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>