[Ponte Alto] There WILL be practice!!!!!

[agnes daunce]

The question is, is Duncan in charge of the practice or was he acting at the behest of the Baronial  Marshall? 
Agnes Daunce

--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Wilchamor1 at aol.com <Wilchamor1 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: Wilchamor1 at aol.com <Wilchamor1 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] There WILL be practice!!!!!
> To: ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 1:50 AM
> Max you are wrong. We allow the person in charge of the
> practice to  decide 
> if it is safe to do the practice. If you did any combat you
> could  get the 
> Barony's ability to hold any practice removed. Were
> their any  wavers  needed to 
> be signed? If this was not done you have put us in such 
> jeopardy. None of us 
> likes to have the practice canceled but it is how we  do
> things here.
> Cosimo of Venice 
>  
>  
> In a message dated 8/29/2008 1:06:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight
> Time,  
> maxntropy at att.net writes:
> 
> Cosimo:
> 
> Connor is the Knight Marshal of the Barony.  I,  like
> Duncan, am a  
> Deputy Knight Marshal of the Barony.
> 
> To my  knowledge, I do not believe we have an official
> policy for who  
> has  the "right" in their office for canceling
> practice and thus I do  
> not  believe there is an official policy for un-canceling
> practice --   
> other than at the discretion of the Knight Marshal (I'm
> assuming).   I  
> do not think we need any such policy.  We had discussed a
> few  times  
> (notably after the last time practice was cancelled early
> on  threat of  
> rain) that it would *not* be policy to cancel practice 
> last minute  
> because of rain (particularly the chance of rain).   In
> fact, Duncan  
> and I just had a discussion about not canceling  practices
> last minute  
> on Sunday at the Baronial meeting.  I am  certain that the
> discussion  
> was simply forgotten and with the  announcement of the
> cancellation of  
> the Rapier practice, Duncan  reacted with a perhaps more
> traditional or  
> historic response.   Communications are often imperfect
> (quite often  
> when I'm involved),  and everyone forgets things
> (again... me most of  
> all).  I think  we've been balancing duties,
> responsibilities, and  
> authorities  pretty well, all things considered, and I
> consider it a  
> personal  boon and blessing to have Duncan doing such
> Yeoman's work for  
> us all  as a Deputy.
> 
> Our practice is currently in a public park where we are 
> authorized to  
> engage in our activities on our practice dates.   We need
> to have a  
> Marshal present.  With me there, we have a  Marshal there. 
> With Baron  
> Jurgen there, we had two Marshals  there.  To hold our
> practice, we  
> just need to ensure that  conditions were not dangerous,
> that those  
> present have waivers  signed, and that there is a warranted
> Marshal.   
> These  conditions were all easily met.  Conditions are not
> inherently   
> dangerous because of the chance of rain or even because of
> rain.   They  
> are dangerous when rain becomes electrified by the presence
>  of  
> lightning.  The Northern Army of Atlantia's policy is
> to  fight in the  
> rain unless and until there is lightning -- wherein the 
> rain becomes  
> dangerous.  We have discussed the same policy here  (as
> above).   
> Naturally those who choose not to come out in the  rain are
> always free  
> to do so.  But as long as we have a  Marshal willing to be
> at practice  
> regardless of the rain, than we  should not deny fighters
> the chance to  
> fight and learn simply  because they might get a little
> wet.  I don't  
> mind Marshaling,  training and/or fighting in the rain if
> it helps at  
> least one other  person... and I believe today (as
> previously), it did.
> 
> Baron Jurgen,  Demian, Sophia, Kat, and Semja (who was
> driving down  
> from  Philadelphia for the practice and was significantly
> looking  
> forward  to fighting and interacting with our folks) all
> showed-up and  
> got  good tutoring and exercise work in today and Kat
> passed her  
> Scholum  final examination -- there wasn't a drop to be
> seen, and it  
> was  quite lovely (particularly after Ledo's).  We know
> that at the   
> very least Ru and Lauren who would've shown up for
> training failed  to  
> do so because of the cancellation -- and their presence was
>  sorely  
> missed.  I wish we could've shown Semja a better time 
> for all his  
> driving with some fighting, but we did the best we  could,
> given the  
> circumstances.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you'll find  that those who managed
> to attend found the  
> practice rewarding  (particularly Kat who is now a
> Legionnaire with  
> successful  completion of the 101 Curriculum along with
> Dem, Jurgen,  
> Sophia,  Sian, Corey, etc...) -- though I'm sure they
> can speak for   
> themselves if they so choose.
> 
> In service,
> 
> Max Von  Halstern
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