[Ansteorra-archery] Marshal?

[Eadric Anstapa]

Stephanie Elliott <selliott75161 at yahoo.com> said:

> How does one become an Archery Marshal? Do you have to
> be in the SCA a certain amount of time? 
> 
> (newbie asking)
> 
> YIS,
> Milia
> 

There is no length of service requirement.  

Basically you need to be a paid member and then convince your
regional archery marshal that you you are a safe and competent range
master (or combat archery marshal) with a knowledge of the SCA
archery rules.

While this there no length of service requirement, experience is
necxessary and the authorization process almost always involves some
amount of time spent running and helping run the archery activites
while being observed closely by the authorizing marshal.  This means
that you need to arrange with your regional marshal to spend time
with them at one or more events having the type of archery activites
that you wish to be a marshal for.

If your regional archery marshal is fairly close then you can
possibly start spending time with them at weekly or monthly local
archery practices.  If you do a good job and pass muster then it
wont take long to get authorized as a marshal.

Only the Kingdomn Archery Marshal and his direct deputies can make
new archery marshals.  (ok obviously the crown and earl marshal
could as well).  The point is that regional Knights Marshals, Rapier
Marshals, Siege Marshals, etc  cant make archery marshals.  You need
to go to a Regional Archery Marshal to get that done.

Dont expect to just show up at an event and find a regional archery
marshal and say "Make Me A Marshal"  and expect it to happen that
day.  The regional marshal is not going to authorize you unless they
know that you can safely do the job and will do it well and
responsibly.  That means they have to spend sopme time getting to
know you and evaluating you and they may simply not be able to do
that in one day at one event.

At http://archery.ansteorra.org on the manuals and references page
there is a document that outlines the duties of the archery
marshallate.  If you are considering being an archery marshal it
would be classified as a "Must Read".

Regards, 

-- 
HL Eadric Anstapa
Kingdom Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
eadric at scabrewer.com