[Ansteorra-archery] Re: Youth Archery: Slight change in subject

[Eadric Anstapa]

Harry Bilings <humble_archer at hotmail.com> said:

> 
> You might want to be careful with the 4 - H er's. There are some \
> in B/CS that can shoot with our best. They are "just" 4 - Her's , 
> but last summer one of the top archers in the US sot with they 
> for two or three weeks so they know what the really good archers 
> can do and are not afraid of them.
> plachoya


Some of the 4H JOAD (Junior Olympic Archery Division) archers are 
outstandinding archers.  It's a great program that really does a 
great job of developing the archers of our nation.

As Aaron Whitewolf noted earlier, his teenage boys are also 
outstanding due to their participation in their local archery 
club.  When his kids are in practice 3/4 of the adult archers in 
this kingdom would likely loose to them particularly on a 3D shoot 
which they have more experience with than most SCA archers.

Like I said earlier, for a privately run competition you can do 
anything ya want.  If a sponsoring group wants to, they can be as 
granular as they want and break the competition divisoons down as 
far as they want.  However, my experience has taught me to never 
take a 14 -18 year old archer for granted, particularly if they 
show up with their own equipment.

-EA