[Ansteorra-archery] Youth Archery Division?

Lothar Wildehaer rampanthare at yahoo.com
Mon May 3 19:14:47 PDT 2004


Well said!

Lothar
--- Sylvrfalcn at aol.com wrote:
>   There have been valid points raised on both sides
> of this one, so I'll try 
> not to muddy the water too much. Still, I would like
> to make a couple of 
> objective observations. First, it strikes me quite
> reasonable to conclude that if 
> teens had more opportunity to compete against their
> peers, more teens would be 
> attracted to participate in archery. Second, teens,
> at least in my experience, 
> quickly lose interest in enterprises that have low
> probability of success. By 
> yanking them from the shallow end of the pool, and
> tossing them directly into 
> the deep end, with nothing in between, how can they
> not become intimidated 
> and discouraged? I know I would be.
>   Would adding a division for the "in-betweeners"
> increase the workload of a 
> lot of good folks that are already doing their best?
> Yes of course, how could 
> it not? I suppose the question at hand then is are
> our young people worth the 
> extra effort? If it should come to vote, my vote
> would be yes.
> 
> Yours in Service,
> Robert of Yorkshire
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