ARCH - New Period Rules

[HL Agnarr Thorvaldsson]

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From: Eadric Anstapa <eadric at barley.scabrewer.com>
To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
Date: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: ARCH - New Period Rules


>Fearghus will address the "Handbook".
>
>You did not misread the book or the rules.  Lord Agnar has made a great
>start but there are many errors in that book as much of the information is
>old and out of date.  Don't refer to that book for ANY rules.  Instead go
to
>the official web sites.
>
>For IKAC and IKCAC that will be   http://www.dellarco.com/ontarget/.
>Remember IKAC and IKCAC rules can change from year to year and you should
>always look for rules for your current year.  Currently you need to be
>looking for the rules for the XXIII Annual Interkingdom Archery Competition
>Updated 3/1/2000 as they are all that is official for this season.
>
>That book should be considered a "guide" and not the official word.  For
>Ansteorra all that is official resides within the Complete Participants
>Handbook.  Anything else is suspect.
>
>We will be working to revise the book.  Sections such as rules for IKAC and
>IKCAC will be removed and the reader will instead be pointed to the
official
>web sites.  We will not duplicate portions of the Complete Participants
>Handbook either.
>
>Regards,
>
>Eadric
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Powers" <spowers at telepath.com>
>To: <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:21 PM
>Subject: ARCH - New Period Rules
>
>
>> I have been working on getting my Period IKAC equipment together for
>> several months.  First I downloaded the newest rules published on the SCA
>> IKAC site (updated March 2000) so I could be sure I knew what the
>equipment
>> standards were.  Then I worked on aquiring equipment that was period and
>> fit those standards.  I got the bow done some time ago, but just now got
>my
>> first "period" arrows made.  Today, I went to Wiesenfeuer's archery
>> practice to try out my new period arrows so I could shoot in the IKAC
>> Period Division and give Ansteorra some more scores.  Help the kingdom,
>> duty and all that...
>>
>>
>>
>> Then His Excellency Master Ulf showed up and mentioned that he had been
>> handed the new Archery Marshal's Handbook yesterday at the Red Tape
>> Meeting, and offerd to let me look at it.  In it I was surprised to see
>> that there were some rule changes pertaining to period IKAC equipment,
>> specifically:
>>
>> 1) Minimum bow weight of 45 lbs.  This differs from the SCA wide rules in
>> that there is no minimum anywhere else.
>>
>> 2) No shelves allowed.  This differs from the SCA wide rules in that
those
>> rules allow no cut out.  I went to a lot of trouble to add strips of
>> leather around by period bow specifically to stay within the standards.
>>
>> 3) Period bowstrings only.  Again, this differs from SCA wide rules that
>> allows modern strings.
>>
>> There were others too, but these were the ones that affect me the most.
>>
>>
>>
>> It occured to me that perhaps the SCA Keeper of the IKAC made this new
>rule
>> and it applies to all kingdoms.  But I remember in the last letter that
he
>> sent out that he was still considering whether to disallow fiberglass
bows
>> for the period division.  At last consideration, he was not planning to
>> make that change for at least a year.  There was no mention of any other
>> rule changes.  So that could not be it.  Therefore, the appearance is
that
>> the stricter rules applies only to Ansteorra.
>>
>> I understand the desire to foster more period archery.  My handmade self
>> bow longbow certainly looks period, acts period, and in fact, is period.
>> But it is not legal for period archery because of these new rules.
>>
>>
>>
>> In addition, I have some real concerns about this.
>>
>> 1)  The IKAC is an Interkingdom competition in which kingdoms are ranked
>> against each other.  Why on Earth would you want to put Ansteorra at a
>> disadvantage to all the other kingdoms?
>>
>> 2)  With the Crown pushing for more participation in archery,
particularly
>> IKACs, why do we have new rules that discourage people from
participating?
>> Rules that, apparently, no other kingdom has?
>>
>> 3)  The 45 pound minimum will eliminate a great many archers from
>> competition because they simply can't pull a 45 lb bow.  Aside from that,
>> many people have already spent money on a bow they like and can't justify
>> spending more on another bow.  Moreover, I have seen many period
>> illustrations which showed women hunting with very light, flimsy bows.
>How
>> can anyone argue that lighter weight bows are not period?
>>
>>
>> So what's the story?  Did I completely misread the rule book?  Are these
>> proposed rules only?  What's the deal?  I would hate to have to walk away
>> from Period IKACs because of this.  Let's get it straightened out.
>>
>>
>>
>> Baron Rumil Fletcher
>>
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