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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>greetings </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>><FONT face="Times New Roman"> As a result, I am not
willing to drive 3 or 4 hours roundtrip, even carpooling, to attend a special
practice just so I can get an away score. It takes two very valuable
resources: my money and my time. I think this recent push to have
special practices has replaced holding Royal Round shoots at events.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>actually the carpooling to other practices had several
reasons ,none of which was to eliminate the royal rounds at events , if it
hadn't been for the big storm sunday at castellan there would have been a royal
round on sunday morning as usual.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>i started the carpooling to practices , to improve
the missile skills and promote missile activities ,so that archers can
get used to shooting on a full firing line , in different places , under
different marshals , and not always standing next to the same people, hearing
the same marshal over and over again .this will help them focus on shooting well
at events , and not freaking out because they aren't used to shooting at a new
place , under a different marshal , with a different landscape.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>this is also one of the reasons that a group of us went
and participated in calontirs " kings company of archers " this past
weekend.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>( a stand alone archery event where they compete from all
over the kingdom , at all levels unranked to grant level )</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>carpooling to different practices was also to help archers
and marshals get to know each other and help each other , as in the north we're
sort of like a big missile family , where to get help all you have to do is ask
.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and was to give marshals an idea about what it would
be like to be a m i c for an event , having that many people show up to
shoot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>northkeep has a small range , so only 5 or 6 can shoot at
a time , so our regional practice may have a lot of socializing time as well
.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>it was also a way to ease travel expenses so that i could
get to more places in order to authorize more people for both thrown weapons and
archery .</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>getting an away score is just a nice bonus added to all
the benifits of carpooling to practices.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>part of the reason i see royal rounds not being shot as
much is the fact that a lot of marshals are saying they hate circle targets ,
they only want to do " fun " shoots .both for practice and for events .
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>( which of course means no paper work till the quarterlies
, or event reports ) ( which thanx to hl eadrics long hours , reporting is very
easy , where else can you turn in ikacs and royal rounds at the same time ??
)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>ansteorra is constant being beaten in the ikac by antir ,
and a couple others , in some divisions , by a lot of others . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>this isnt going to change as long as groups only do " fun
" shoots, or people only practice shooting at events.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>for me , what i shoot at isn't as important as the fact
that i'm shooting,( or throwing ) and a " fun " shoot is one that challenges me
to stay focused, and do my very best, because anything less just wont get me to
the next round . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>( ok , so if i was into bruises , pain and broken bones ,
maybe i would be a knight by now ; ) , health and
mundanity have dropped my scores , but i'm working on raising them again through
practice.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>archery and thrown weapons are my primary activities in
the sca , if they die, i will be the guy camped out on the far edge of site ,
shooting at my personal butt , or throwing at my personal target , but
i'll miss the teaching , and the big family that is ansteorran missile comunity
.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>just my 2 pence worth ( $4.95 = adjusted for modern
times ) " 1 cent = after modern taxes " = )</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>be safe, be happy, have fun</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>arthur</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=anovy@suddenlink.net href="mailto:anovy@suddenlink.net">A.N. Novy</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=ansteorra-archery@lists.ansteorra.org
href="mailto:ansteorra-archery@lists.ansteorra.org">Archery within the Kingdom
of Ansteorra</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 08, 2008 12:22
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Third
Quarter 2008 Royal Round Keeper Report</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I may have a different viewpoint than many on this list, but I
think it should be expressed.<BR><BR>It is not a great concern of mine to
increase my RR score. I am more interested in having fun and using
archery as a relaxing diversion from my mundane life. As a result, I am
not willing to drive 3 or 4 hours roundtrip, even carpooling, to attend a
special practice just so I can get an away score. It takes two very
valuable resources: my money and my time. I think this recent push
to have special practices has replaced holding Royal Round shoots at
events.<BR><BR>When I was in the Outlands, at any event at which archery was
held, there was also an opportunity to shoot a Royal Round (also, sometimes
events that had no other archery scheduled would still hold a RR). Every
effort was made to hold one. This made it much easier for the casual
archer to still participate and track his or her scores, because if you're at
the event anyway, why not shoot a RR and get that away score? Heck,
there was a time when my RR score was made up of only away scores shot at
events.<BR><BR>I believe the Outlands policy was the correct way to go, which
is why since I started running archery at Mooneschadowe Guardian/Triumphe 3
years ago, I have held a RR. I will be continuing this tradition this
year, and for as long as I run archery for that event.<BR><BR>People can hold
special practices if they wish. I am not saying they should stop.
What I am saying is that you might be surprised at how many more archers start
submitting scores if you give them the opportunity at events to do
so.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Zorya Prazan<BR>Mooneschadowe Archery
Marshal<BR><BR><BR>---- Eadric Anstapa <<A
href="mailto:eadric@scabrewer.com">eadric@scabrewer.com</A>> wrote:
<BR>> Great. The whole point was/is to encourage people to attend
some events <BR>> and interact archers outside of their home
practice. When the <BR>> Ansteorran Royal Rounds were created it was
noted that there were some <BR>> really great archers that virtually never
left their home range. Those <BR>> really great archers are the ones
that we almost want most to go out and <BR>> and interact with other people
because they are the ones that can <BR>> inspire everyone to to better and
the ones that can share and teach what <BR>> it took for them to get as
good as they are.<BR>> <BR>> The Northern branches have started
travelling around to each others <BR>> practices in a carpool and thats
perfect. Perhaps the Steppes Marshals <BR>> can coordinate with the
Emerald Keep marshals to do something in Emerald <BR>> Keep. It's and
easy drive and two hours away, there is no site fee to <BR>> pay for a
practice, and if ya load as many folks as ya can into the most <BR>> fuel
efficient car that ya can then it's not a bad day trip. The <BR>>
Steppes archers then get an away score and they can share and get to <BR>>
know the Emerald Keep archers better.<BR>> <BR>> Regards,<BR>>
<BR>> -EA<BR>>
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