[Ansteorra-archery] Royal Rounds and IKAC

[ld.blackmoon]

greetings


i'm sorry if i gave the impression that i was irked or being critical ,due
to people not shooting enough royal rounds , and ikacs .
this string started off half toungue in cheek , because every year were
bombarded with the same " war is coming " beat the trimarans " are the heavy
fighters ready, are the rapier fighters ready , are the combat archers ready
...and yet the little things even a broke old cuss like me can do , most of
the time , is turn in 1 score in an entire year .is it everyones favorite
shoot ? no will it ever be ? no . does it help train both skill and
endurance ? yes. does it show which kingdoms take pride in their target
archery standings , versus other kingdoms ?? who am i to say . is it a lot
of work ? yes .
but i have never seen an archery marshal in ansteorra that ran from hard
work !!! we spend hours planning shoots, then more hours running shoots ,
building targets & equipment , and more hours training ourselves and others
, not just for our local events , but at almost every event we attend .not
to mention lugging targets and safety ropes around as we set up  and tear
down ranges, standing and walking all day in the sun, or the hours spent
picking up peoples trash and butt's from around the range area , so we can
use the site again for other events.
again , if anyone has taken this the wrong way , i appologise !! in 25 years
in the sca , i have never met a dishonorable archery marshal !! most have
been infected with volunteeritis for many years

and eadric is correct , it also has to do with choices .
i hope that everyone will choose to do as jaque the spink and choose to
shoot ; )

be safe, be happy, have fun
arthur

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eadric Anstapa" <eadric at scabrewer.com>
To: "Archery within the Kingdom of Ansteorra"
<ansteorra-archery at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Royal Rounds and IKAC


> ld.blackmoon wrote:
> > greetings
> >
> > while i am but a lowly archer ( very noisy though ; )
> >
> > ( and i have to say first that you have done wonders in the archery
> > comunity, but not everyone can afford to play at your level . just my
> > opinion  )
> >
> Arthur everyones participation is limited to what they can afford.
> Similarly people are going to limit themselves (even those who might be
> able to afford anything) to what they enjoy.
>
> My point is that those who are sometimes critical that others are not
> shooting as many Royal Rounds or IKAC ends as some might think they
> should should stop and consider that those other archers may be active
> and serving in other ways.  I will have a dozen or so archers with me at
> Gulf War this year that didn't shoot a single IKAC round this past
> year.  However, we were very busy at Gulf War and Pennsic, worked many
> many hours at both wars, attended and marshaled many tournaments and
> events in Ansteorra, and were virtually the only people teaching at AoB
> ( the exception was Robin who also didn't shoot at IKACs and who also
> served at war and throughout the kingdom) .  In general  these folks who
> didn't shoot IKAC rounds had a very high level of  extremely productive
> activity without the need to shoot an IKAC and don't miss IKAC at all.
>
> > i would have to ask ??
> > does anyone have any solid numbers on how many archers ansteorra has
that
> > shoot on a regular basis ??
> >
> Sure, as a recent regional marshal you know those numbers were available
> to you.  Branch marshals are supposed to report each quarter the number
> of active archers in their branches and the regional marshals should be
> wrapping those numbers up and reporting them to the kingdom marshal.  If
> all the marshals reported properly then the kingdom marshal should be
> able to get pretty close to telling you how many active archers their
> are in the kingdom because if those active archers are active without a
> marshal who is overseeing and reporting that activity there is a problem.

>
> > as well as numbers on how many of those archers can afford the time and
> > money to attend those far off wars ??  every year ??
> >
> I don't know how anyone would have any "who can afford what"
> information.  However, people make choices all the time.  Some are
> forced to make choices based on what they can afford but I hope everyone
> makes choices on what they enjoy the most and hopefully where they can
> be most productive.
>
> I do spend a lot of money on the SCA each year.  But as a percentage of
> my income I spend a far far smaller amount than I did when I was  a poor
> broke 20 year old college student.  Back then my armor looked like crap,
> food for the entire event consisted of uncooked hot dogs, a cheap can of
> pork and beans, and the cheapest loaf of white bread I could afford. We
> couldn't afford to travel alone but had to cram 8 people in my van to go
> to war so we could pool all our gas money together.  We didn't have nice
> camps or gear and didn't have enough money or cargo space for lots of
> tents and often crammed 4 folks for a week into a 10x12 tent.  We made a
> choice to be there and scrimped and saved and pooled our resources and
> went out and were active and still tell stories and talk about how much
> fun it was back when we didn't have any money to go to events.
>
> It's about choice.  Some archers choose a recurve, some choose a
> longbow, some choose a crossbow, some choose not to shoot IKAC but
> instead to do something they enjoy more.
>
> -EA
>
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