ARCH - Re: ANST - Archery Question

[Bob Dewart]

Yes shooting can take up a good part of the day.  It probably is best for
the for score shoots to be done at local practices.  I'd be perfectly happy
NEVER to seeing an IKAC or IKCAC shot at an event if the local practices did
it.

However, they aren't happening there either!!!  We had less than 10 IKAC
scores last year and  NO ONE has shot the IKCAC for score in well over a
year.

Now the IKAC and IKCAC are  privately sponsored competitions that all the
Kingdoms can and do more or less participate in.

I think it's pretty simple.  We  like to say we have the best archers in the
Known World.  Well my friends and neigbors you can't tell it by the scores.
And don't give me that, "Well,...excuse, excuse, excuse".  Part of getting a
score is over coming whatever problem you might have in getting it done.
They say practice makes perfect.  Well, at  least you should do better at it
after awhile.

Personnally  I'm tired of seeing Ansteorra in the  bottom 25% of the scoring
Kingdoms.

And while I'm here, another thing  that just roasts my  cookies is someone
who hasn't shot for score remaking on how low someone else's score is.  What
ever the score was, it's more than the person who didn't shoot has.  Think
about that one.

But that's OK.  We few, we happy few, will shoot for the glory of Ansteorra
in the Known World.   And when we shoot  the fun  stuff, we'll win that too.

Gilli

Shoot more arrows.  You're bound to hit something.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eadric Anstapa <eadric at barley.scabrewer.com>
To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: ARCH - Re: ANST - Archery Question


>I agree completely with Pug on the subject of TIME being the biggest
>obstacle to shooting a full IKAC round.
>
>If you want to shoot a full IKAC at competition being held in conjuction
>with some other event then the archers had pretty well better plan on only
>doing archery since it is going to eat up the best part of your day.  By
the
>time to your a few practice ends and then wait your turn on the range, if
>there are more than jys a couple of archers then the entire day will pretty
>much get used up.
>
>This past weekend at MidSummer Faire X we instead shot a modified royal
>round for our archery competition.  To be considered champion of the fair
>the participants had to participate in 5 out of 7 different events so we
had
>to make it something that only used a reasonable amount of time.  You can
>shoot a Royal Round from start to finish in about 20 minutes so it allows
>for many more people to participate.  We had about 12 or 15 adults and
about
>4 children shooting and even without a full IKAC shoot we used up the
better
>part of the day.
>
>Is anyone keeping track of and posting Royal Round Scores. (although
>embarrassing for some like me)  I notice that at the very least you can
find
>the following kingdoms keeping track of Royal Round Scores;
>
>EAST
>http://www.world.std.com/~skell/rankings.html
>
>EALDORMERE
>http://www.ealdormere.sca.org/officers/archery.html
>
>AN TIR
>http://www.dellarco.com/ontarget/frames/top_frame.html
>
>MIDDLE
>http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~sca/archery/Royal.html
>
>ATLANTIA
>http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Meadows/6208/royal.html
>
>OUTLANDS
>http://members.iex.net/~norseman/outlands/archery/reports.html
>
>Other Kingdoms may be keeping track also, these are just the ones I found
>with a quick search.
>
>These royal rounds are adequate practice for a full IKAC shoot and if a
>archer really serious and wants to devote his full day to archery he can
>simply go through it a couple to times to get in a full IKAC.  The Royal
>Rounds are much less intimidating to novice archers and you get better
>participation from people who only have a little time to participate.
>
>Rgeards,
>
>Eadric
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pug Bainter" <pug at pug.net>
>Subject: ARCH - Re: ANST - Archery Question
>
>
>> Bob Dewart (gilli at seacove.net) said something that sounded like:
>> > However, the IKAC and IKCAC  are the only archery competitions
conducted
>on
>> > a Society wide scale.  Where archers from every Kingdom can compete
>against
>> > archers from every other Kingdom.  Why not kill two birds with one
>arrow?
>>
>> The problem, as I see it, is squeezing the time for an IKAC or IKCAC at
>> events. That is the only place that *I* am able to shoot them. I have
>> found a place to start practicing, but that doesn't mean I'll have
>> someone there to assist me with the scoring/timing. (Not only that, but
>> I'd feel uncomfortable turning in scores if they got above a certain
>> level.)
>>
>> Btw, I've redirected this to the archery list where I think it's more
>> relevent than the main Ansteorran list.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> --
>> Phelim "Pug" Gervase
>
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