ANST - Royal Huntsman

[Bob Dewart]

I believe the issue is, and has been, lack of Kingdom support for archery.

During the past twelve years, I've watched the number of archers that "shoot
for score" fall from several hundred to just a handful.

I don't want to get into the thing of well they're just doing it to get an
award but you gotta take a look around.  Look at the Kingdoms that do well
in the competitions.  For the most part, they have awards for their archers.
They have, as they say, something to shoot for.

Or, are we saying that none of the archers we have are curantly worthy
enough to recieve the recognition of an AoA level or Grant level award for
their archery?  You know, we have had an award created to promote a
particular activity.  Why not again?

Gilli

-----Original Message-----
From: Weiszbrod, Barbara A (Barbara) <baw2 at lucent.com>
To: 'ansteorra at ansteorra.org' <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:26 AM
Subject: RE: ANST - Royal Huntsman


>
>> Are you an archer?  If not, why are you worried about what they may or
may
>> not get?
>>
>Well, that came across as rather rude, don't you think?
>
>As I see it, the respondent was not so much concerned with what the archers
>get, as much as saying "put the horse before the cart".  As I understand it
>there were only 8 IKAC scores submitted last year from Ansteorra (please do
>correct me if that is wrong, I would rather it be higher).  It is not time
>to be asking when archery is going to get an armigerous award; instead the
>question is how to get archery more main stream.
>
>Many, many years ago I lived in a Kingdom that was, for a great part of it,
>very urban, very liberal (implying that hunting was kind of frowned on) and
>very strong in archery.  I shot there often (we had a bi-monthly archery
>practice at an indoor range), and participated in the Pensic War point.
>
>Then I came to Ansteorra, a kingdom that is mostly rural, strong in hunting
>all styles, and very week in archery.  I didn't understand it at the time,
>and frankly still don't. My assumption would be that archery would be more
>prominent here than in NYC.
>
>There has been an increased emphasis on archery here, but primarily in
>Combat.  Target archery is still languishing in obscurity.  This is the
>issue, Gilli, that you should be addressing.
>
>Alys
>Steppes


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