<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>That's right and we are having a medieval style archery tournament which Godai is designing!</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><font size="2"><div><i><font size="3" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Lady Katarzyna Witkowska</font></i></div><div><font size="3" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Poeta Atlantiae</font></div><div><font size="3" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Seneschal, Barony of Bright Hills</font></div></font></div><div><font size="3" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"></font><font size="3" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> </font></div><div><font size="3" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style='font-family: "serif";'>"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." ~Plato,
<i>Ion</i></span></div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></div></font></div><div><font size="2"></font></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jay Nardone <jaynardone@comcast.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Katherine Hawkins' <k_hawk_us@yahoo.com>; 'Janyn Fletcher' <janynfletcher@comcast.net>; 'John Atkins' <cogworks@triad.rr.com>; archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 20, 2012 3:51 PM<br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Archers] Interest to capitalize on<br> </font> </div> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1879207840WordSection1"><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Kat, agreed! I think next year this forces will be there in mass since there is no conflicts with events. I know I’m looking to help next year for sure!</span></div><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Janyn</span></div><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid
none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Katherine Hawkins<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 20, 2012 3:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> Janyn Fletcher; 'John Atkins'; archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] Interest to capitalize on</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'>Events such as our Steppingstone Demo are ideal chances to get new archers. We have over 225 people in attendance each year and we have worked with as many as 60 new archers.
Many parents would like to try their hand but we do not generally have enough help.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'> </span></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><i><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'>Lady Katarzyna Witkowska</span></i><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'>Poeta Atlantiae</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'>Seneschal, Barony of Bright Hills</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif"; font-size:
10pt;'></span></div></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'> </span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." ~Plato, <i>Ion</i></span><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "serif";'> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> Janyn Fletcher <<a href="mailto:janynfletcher@comcast.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
ymailto="mailto:janynfletcher@comcast.net">janynfletcher@comcast.net</a>><br><b>To:</b> 'John Atkins' <<a href="mailto:cogworks@triad.rr.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:cogworks@triad.rr.com">cogworks@triad.rr.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 20, 2012 3:44 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] Interest to capitalize on</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv1879207840"><div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>I will only say that you can count on me going forward to promote Archery and these bigger
events as much as I can. I will need all of your help to pull off these bigger events, but I am confident we can do it! Right after Pennsic I would like to get back to the discussion and planning for the Known World Archery Tourney.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>In Service,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Janyn</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <a
href="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a> [<a href="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Atkins<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] Interest to capitalize on</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: blue; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Total agreement. In my area, Sacred Stone, more people have either joined or tried the SCA because of target archery than any other activity. But, as you say, what is most talked about is the heavy fighting. Now in comparing the two to fight heavy one must buy armor, expensive, and "learn the basics", then get authorized, then they can play on a regular basis. For archery a person can walk out to the range and say "that looks like fun, can I try?" and they get handed a bow and some arrows and they are trying it out. No bruises, or worse, from "authorization" and no major cash outlay BEFORE they get to try it to see if it's really what they think it is. And, as my nurse wife says, no physical damage that will come back to haunt you in your older age! Plus, for archery size does NOT matter. In heavy fighting
going against a 300 pound guy BEFORE he puts on his armor is intimidating. In target archery a 60 pound young lady can outshoot a 250 pound muscle man.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: blue; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>So the question then becomes, what can we do to better advertise target archery? One thing for which I am a major proponent is IF, big if most of the time, archery is included in a demo, it must be something that involves the crowd while displaying skill. I love archery but watching others shoot is right up there with grass growing and paint drying. Involve the audience and give them a reason to be interested.</span><span style="color:
black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: blue; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cog</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Jessica Mulligan [<a href="mailto:slaoen@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:slaoen@yahoo.com">mailto:slaoen@yahoo.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> John Atkins; <a href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
ymailto="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] Interest to capitalize on</span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div><div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Of course it is. :) How many of us read/watched Robin Hood books/movies as children? When I took my daughter, Robin (can you guess what stories I liked as a kid?), to see Brave she was so excited because "she shoots a bow, like me!" Growing up, I was either shooting while pretending to be Robin Hood, or swordfighting while pretending to be Madmartigan. If I had known about the SCA back then I would have talked to my parents about joining.</span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div
style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I think the biggest problem is advertisement. There is interest to be capitalized on, but we need to reach young people, and their parents. I didn't know the SCA did target archery until I reluctantly agreed to attend an event at which my coworker was doing heavy fighting. Up until then, the only thing I had ever heard about the SCA was that they did heavy fighting, and I only heard about that by word of mouth from heavy fighters.</span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">We get a lot of newcomers who are interested in archery out at Wolfhou. I'm not sure how many of them have been inspired by recent movies though. The most
common thing I hear is, "I've always wanted to try archery, but never had the chance."</span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Sanada Katsumi</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="yiv1879207840MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Archers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:Archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">Archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br><a href="http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/listinfo.cgi/archers-atlantia.sca.org" rel="nofollow"
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