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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From my perspective this is exactly why I enjoy the archery community within the SCA. ALL of us know that we can never call “light” thereby blowing off a valid strike. Either the arrow hit the target or it didn’t. Doesn’t matter where you “wanted” it to hit versus actually did. But I always see very experienced archers setting down their bow to give pointers to a newer archer or two experienced archers sharing pointers between each other. In archery we are running two competitions, one against ourselves and the other against the other archers but ALWAYS in a fun atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Points below well said,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>cog<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Archers [mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Garth Groff<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 14, 2014 4:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] A pat on your own backs! - Go ahead you earned it!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Noble Friends of the Bow,<br><br>I completely agree with His Excellency Baron Ursus and Lord Janyn. I go to tournaments without any expectation of winning (especially shooting a period longbow!), and rarely turn in my score cards. All I want is to shoot with friends and enjoy playing in the middle ages.<br><br>Yours Aye,<br><br><br>Mungo<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/13/14 6:44 PM, Jay Nardone wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Good evening my Brothers and Sisters of the Bow. For those of you not on Facebook I saw a post today by Baron Ursus and I couldn’t stop thinking about his words. It really also applies to our archery community and I wanted to share it with you all. So here is what he posted:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>Since the Crown Tourney, I have been in contact with several of the fighters who participated, and they were almost unanimous in condemning their own performance. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>“Oh, some performance. I went 0-2…”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>...</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>“Sorry I didn’t win. I’ll try harder next time.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>This saddens me. I think (without naming names) that some of you have lost your way. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>Please allow me to make some observations and offer my opinion as a retired fighter and dedicated spectator for many, many years. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>The intent of participating in the Crown Tourney (and any Tourney) is not to win, but to fight with honor and make your Kingdom proud. If you win, that’s fantastic, but in my mind at least, it’s more important to stride on to the field with honor in your heart, fight the best you can, congratulate those who win and even those who lost. As long as you have remained true to yourself and fought honorably, you have helped to glorify the Kingdom and your fellow combatants. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>After all, in any Tourney, there can only be one winner. Does that mean the rest of you are losers? No, it does not. You took the field to honor your consort, yourself and your Kingdom. If you fought hard and the best you could, you are a winner also.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>Never forget that. Be proud of the fact that you faced the best your Kingdom had to offer, and helped make the Crown Tourney even more special by simply walking on to the field. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>Everyone who fought in the Crown Tourney are champions in their own right. There can be only one ultimate winner and future King, but you did your consort, yourself and your Kingdom proud by just being on that field.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'>These very wise words also apply to us and our community. After this year’s Kingdom Archery Championship, I had discussions with many of you and I was shocked at what I was hearing from many of you. We are all competitive and there is nothing wrong with that. I joined the SCA for one reason, fun. Ever since I joined, I cant think of a time when I did not have in our archery community and it is the commradrery, friendships, laughs and stories that make me smile and come back. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'>So I thought this was fitting to post and I hope you all agree, everyone who shoots at an event or Kingdom Championship are winners and Champions in my opinion. It is not an unknown fact that Atlantia has some of the best archers in the known world. If we can ever get the Known world archery championship we have been working on for years off the ground, we would show the world this for real. I am proud to be an Atlantian archer and so should you!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'>In Service</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'>Janyn</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style , serif","serif"'>“Those who stand for nothing, will fall for anything!” –Alexander Hamilton</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Archers mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">Archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/listinfo.cgi/archers-atlantia.sca.org">http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/listinfo.cgi/archers-atlantia.sca.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>