[Ansteorra-archery] Royal Huntsman - CA and TA Champions?

Doug Copley doug.copley at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 13:40:06 PST 2009


Good points!

I believe that you are correct that the majority of TA participants do 
not do CA and never will. I also know that there are CA participants 
that do not do TA.

Perhaps the solution may be as simple as an overall declaration that the 
Royal Huntsman is:
A. The Champion TA for the Kingdom, or
B. The Champion CA for the Kingdom, or
C. The King's representative of all forms of archery within the Kingdom 
and as such must be able to perform and compete in all areas.

This would be a tough pill for many people to swallow and might upset 
some people that believe that it should only be TA or CA. But as a wise 
person stated, it is not possible to make everyone happy.

I believe that Arthur's thinking (please correct me if I am wrong) is 
that he is trying to figure out the best way to make as many people 
happy as possible and to have as many people involved in some form of 
archery as possible.

The more people that we have involved in archery the better it is for 
all of us.

I also agree that the Kingdom MM and the reigning RH should do their 
best to work with the King & Queen to help educate them and help them 
understand our portion of the SCA and what some of our traditions and 
concerns are.

YIS,
Vincenti

Jed Tressler wrote:
>     hmmmm, this might be a good idea.
> 
>     Is it viable to have two separate shoots and two champions?
> 
>     Vincenti
> 
> 
> The extension of this, is that we should have a Queens Heavy Rapier 
> Champion, a Queens Light Rapier Champion, a Queens Side Sword Champion, 
> a Kings Fiberglass Spear Champion, and a Kings Champion (all other 
> weapon forms).  These all require different authorizations, different 
> equipment sets, and different skills that may not have a chance to shine 
> in the "traditional" or "standard" tourney formats.  Our fellow 
> marshal enthusiasts are, mostly, ok with the fact that there particular 
> "flavor" doesn't always, or never, gets to shine.  I think we should be 
> too. 
> 
> The one thing that I think would help to increase the reception and 
> prestige of the Huntsmen competition is to ensure that our Crowns 
> understand the nature of the community, and the different flavors within 
> it.  Not all Crowns are going to realize how few of the archers 
> competing in there Huntsmen tourney are CA authorized, or how long it 
> takes to get authorized, or the potential difficulty of getting 
> authorized based on marshal availability, or that one CA round in the 
> tourney doesn't often highlight the CA of true skill (we do CA in melee, 
> not tourney).  Nor do they necessarily understand how much time and 
> effort many of the target archers put into there craft mostly on there 
> own, practicing, making arrows, reviewing form, studying texts on the 
> theory of archery, and how that one round of CA can be so frustrating 
> because it feels like it undermines the work they put in at the one big 
> chance they have to shine (most crowns don't sit and watch a local 
> groups archery competition).
> 
> To my mind, it falls to the kingdom missile marshal, and the current 
> royal huntsmen to ensure that a crown understands this part of there 
> kingdom.  After all, it seems fewer crowns than we would like had a 
> passion for archery before they ascended the thrown, so we cant just 
> expect that they will understand.
> 
> My Thoughts,
> Bastian Eisengart, L.
> 
>  
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