[Ansteorra-archery] Definition of Royal Huntsman
Doug Copley
doug.copley at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 05:33:12 PST 2009
One thing that might help in these discussions is a better definition of
what is the Royal Huntsman.
I have seen several people express their opinion of what the position is
and how they view it but it would help if there was a better description
that was posted so that the entire Kingdom would have the same
understanding.
In my mind, part of the problem is that we have 3 different groups that
are or can be involved in this and all of this going back-and-forth and
saying that it may, might, could, possibly, include certain types of
shooting is actually bad for the tourney, the title, and the archery
community. I think it makes us look disorganized, leaderless, and
fragmented, all of which is bad.
The 3 groups are:
1. Target archers that ONLY do target archery. I believe that this is
the largest group.
2. Combat archers that ONLY do combat archery. I believe that this is
the smallest group.
3. Archers that do BOTH combat and target archery. I believe that this
group is right in the middle as far as numbers.
If the objective is to find a combat archer to go to war with the King &
Queen then the Tourney should be a CA Tourney. If the objective is to
find the best TA then it should be a TA Tourney. If the objective is a
combination then it should be a CA / TA Tourney and it should be
announced that it will be and if only one person shows up with all of
the gear and is able to compete in all of it they win.
If we look at the other martial skills champions they may have some
things that vary and formats that might change slightly but they also
have a number of things that are ALWAYS included and it is known that
they must have certain items in order to compete. We should organize
ourselves and do the same thing.
We should focus on skill type shooting of various distances, and specify
what is required to compete for Royal Huntsman. Do we want to say that
only TA or only CA is required or that both are required, what about
shooting period and requiring that you must shoot longbow, or maybe
longbow and crossbow and combat! (No, I am not kidding, for Chivalric
they must fight with multiple weapons in order to compete so there is
precedence).
If the title is for the top Kingdom archer of all forms archery and that
they are supposed to go to war with the King & Queen and they are
supposed to fill the Royal table with meat then we should require that
to compete for the title you MUST compete with multiple forms of archery
and bows. If the title is different (Huntsman = Hunter = TA ONLY) then
we need to base the tourney on what the definition is.
My apologies for this being so long but I believe that this is important
to the entire archery community and should be addressed. I have looked
for a clear concise description that would settle the discussion but was
unable to find one.
When responding, please do not use "Well normally we have included ...",
we need to focus not on what was done in the past but what should be
done and what we want to do in the future, where do we want this to be
in 5 years, what do we want to be accomplished in 3 years, how can we
make this grow?
YIS,
Vincenti da Murano
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