[Ansteorra-archery] Children's Archery

[Patrick R]

I guess I will respond to a couple of posts in one. 
 
We have children at our practices every well and they are very welcome. One way to accomodate them at events is to schedule. The actual competion may be over but this is where I find we develop an interest in archery for people. It is a lot more fun (for me anyway) than running the actual competion. I suggest having other marshals available to help you. 
 
As for Royal Rounds for children I have some mixed feelings about them. In my experience I have found the longer I can keep a new shooter (both youth and adult) on the ten yard target the better archer they become. When I started I was stupid and since I was able to hit the short target I moved to a longer one and for the most part played fetch in the woods for my arrows. On a local level you can have a tiny tourney where they shoot at the distances they are currently at and people of all levels can compete. Novilty shoots also seem to even the playing field some.
Dante
 

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 From: Doug Copley <doug.copley at gmail.com>
To: Archery within the Kingdom of Ansteorra <ansteorra-archery at lists.ansteorra.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Children's Archery
  


I agree! And the MICs should use that discretion to do the best they can to work with special needs and to help make it fun for them to participate also.

With that, we need to understand that some of the events only have a 2 hour window for the adults and a 1 hour window for the children so we do not have a lot of time at an event to give special attention. I also try to counsel marshals that are going to be running a children's shoot that they should have at least one target that they expect EVERY child to score on. I do not like to see a child ever go and get a complete zero and never score. I know we want to select a champion but we also want to build the community and the children and the SCA. 

Vincenti



On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Frank Schalles <francisschalles at gmail.com> wrote:

Special needs children are welcome to participate. In some of the
>information I have reviewed, they are to be accommodated however we
>can. This is probably on a case by case basis, and the Marshal In
>Charge has great leeway in this.
>
>Francois
>
>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Bogue, David (Houston)
><David.Bogue at worleyparsons.com> wrote:
>> Do you see any possibilities in special needs kids getting out there on the
>> archery range?  Age restrictions aside, just their ability’s?
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>> Rolf
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>> From: ansteorra-archery-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
>> [mailto:ansteorra-archery-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Doug
>> Copley
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 12:53 PM
>> To: Archery within the Kingdom of Ansteorra
>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Children's Archery
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>> I agree that there are areas and groups that do pretty good. One thing that
>> I have noticed is that we have MANY MANY kids (under 11 or 12) but that we
>> do not have as many that are older than that. I know our son Baldo was
>> pretty good archery and was shooting but once he hit about 14 the SCA was no
>> longer "Cool" so he did not want to do it anymore:-( I think this happens
>> with many of the kids in the SCA. One thing that had been discussed before
>> and they recently setit up for IKAC and I believe we can now make it an
>> option on the RR is to have both children (10, 15, 20 yards with timed at 10
>> yard) and a youth division that is 15, 20, 30 with a timed round at 15
>> yards. This MIGHT help or it might now. If it is available for us to use we
>> should consider using it and making it available.
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>> Vincenti
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>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ld. Cian Rhys Gravenor
>> <metaldog00 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I may be getting ready to step in it, but I know several baronies that have
>> had a youth program for many years. Admittedly there are rather few
>> participants and I agree we can do  more to recruit the children. On the
>> other hand we have quite a few wee folk participate in archery at the events
>> I frequent. I think local marshals are doing a pretty good job though and I
>> would like to give them props for all they are doing to bring in new blood.
>>
>> Cian
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