ARCH - What If

N.D. Wederstrandt nweders at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Mar 23 10:50:17 PST 2001


>I don't agree that Archery is a fringe activity.  I
>presided over a 30-entrant archery tourney last fall,
>and I look forward to a larger one this fall.  I have
>been to events for years at which the number of archers
>exceeded the number of fighters.
	One event at 30 doesn't give it a mainstream activity.  I'm not
arguing that the activity doesn't have growing numbers but the way you
wrote this make it sounds like based on this one activity, archery is very
active but I don't think it's mainstream .... yet..  When you compare
archery say to rapier fighting, then it really is a more minor activity.
	I don't see that much activity.  I do see somethin gthat many of
you are forgetting.
	There are two kinds of archery in this Kingdom.....
static/stationary/target and combative/dynamic fighting archery. Because of
this you don't get a good following or support from the community.  It
makes it hard to understand why the group needs a GOA for archery when
because of the split it is conceived as a two level activity.

	On one hand the combat archery is much more visible.... and rather
than create an award specifically for that  - I feel it would be easier to
start working at getting archers included in Falcons, and Centurians  than
to create another style.
	For me, and I do admit to a little bias, I think the stationary
target archery should be integrated into the Arts and Sciences aawards,
becuase it relflects a science the same that armor making does as well.
People need to push at getting it recognized more than having a special
cookie for them.  I know people who only do archery seem to want their own
special award, but I'm beginning to think in a very odd way that that harms
the SCA, in forming mindsets about class and activival strata.
The SCA is rife with snobbery.....(grin).
>
>The question to be answered is not, "do we NEED a grant-
>level archery award?"  I don't think we do.  I think
>archery is thriving in Ansteorra without it.  But the
>real question is, "does Ansteorra want to reward and
>encourage excellence in archery-related activity
>through the mechanism of a grant-level award?"  That's
>a question on which reasonable people may differ, but
>I'd like to see it.  I designed regalia for such an
>award years ago.
	I agree that these are different questions and I think Galen has  a
point.

Look Galen - we agreee. (grin).

Clare

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