[Coastal] Tuesday chivalric fighter practice

Mon Aug 25 17:14:36 PDT 2008

Sir Alexis,

Your words hammer home as a rivet being driven into steel. 

For whom does not know my work has taken me back to Ravensfort and with luck one day back the Star-Loch area. I have many in the Star-Loch area I owe much to. I have many Brothers and Sisters in arms that I did not want to leave. Fieinds and family that I can learn much from and taught me more that I could hope to learn. Those I have led to victory in battle, and those that I followed for the good of the kingdom. I owe all you a great deal. 

I wish you all he best of luck. I will however say this. 

Breaking up the Tuesday night practice at UoH is not a good idea. There are folks who travel just as far from the north from the west.. east.. .. if not farther for that practice than the loch folks.  There are folks who travel from spring  to hit that practice, not all the time.. but they do. Thats one heak of a haul. my thougts are you will (as a fighter) handicap yourself. You wont get the broad collective practice that the UoH is. It will only damage the fighters and handicap the skills of the fighters in the area. 

Now here is as idea, much like many areas the fighter practice area kinda stinks for getting folks. When we were  by a major road at UoH we had tons of folks, What is now the soccer field. I would suggest staying at the university and putting yourself in a location that gives you a great deal of visbility. Right now you have a Dorms and the Psyc building.. plus passer-bys. I am currently working with folks in Ravensfort that have the very same problem. Visbility in my opinon is is 2nd only to whom you are trying to recruit. At UoH you have a swarm of folks.. you are just in the wrong place. When our practice moved, folks left the college died.. location location location and target the age group. Those are my thoughts.. unfortunatly  I was unable to see this until I saw the folks up here is the same situation. 

If it is the Will of the Loch to have there own on Tuesday night, then I think that would be unfortunate.

It is my intention to ether once a month or every other month get the fighters from Ravensfort to the UoH practice. The Loch is a tad bit out of our range. We are also looking at the possibility of a bi-monthly trans coastal-central practice in huntsville on a weekend and at a place folks could pitch a tent at if needed.. its still in the works. 

Michael of Gravesend

> From: wiselaw at comcast.net> To: coastal at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:57:34 -0500> Subject: Re: [Coastal] Tuesday chivalric fighter practice> > This is one reason why I've been trying to get in touch with fighters in the> greater Houston area, so that we can figure out where folks are and what> their schedules look like. First, trying to make sure that everyone is> aware of every opportunity to fight or train and second to make sure that> the practices are set for times that are convenient to the largest number of> folks.> > I also see a hard conflict with the Tuesday practices, because for awhile> now we have barely had enough folks attending the Tuesday practices to make> them viable (and a number of times that there weren't folks at all). The> difficulty is that until we increase the number of fighters, we don't have> enough folks to ensure there will be a solid practice with opportunities to> both fight and train. Another problem however, is just the logistics of the> size of the Houston metroplex. As Alden points out, even if there is a> practice on Tuesday evenings, for folks on the north or far west side of> town, it is still difficult to make it to a practice down on the southeast> side of town (and conversely for folks in the Loch to make it up to Gates> Edge, etc.).> > I am guessing that it will take a bit of working out to develop the best> routine for folks. One idea that has worked in the past is to set a> schedule to designate special practices where the folks who are willing to> travel can congregate to provide opportunities for fighting or training that> might not be as available for local practices. Similar to the knight's> schools being run out in Austin, perhaps we can take a traveling road show> of sorts to hit the various local practices, i.e. loch, then stargate, then> gate's edge, etc. to have practices that are more training oriented and give> folks a wider variety of opponents than they might get on a regular basis.> > If folks are interested, then it's time to speak up. There are folks who> are willing to travel to provide training as well as fighting, just like to> make sure there are interested students :)> > Regards, Alexis> > > > I can certainly appreciate His Excellency Stargate's desire to continue> with a Tuesday night practice at UH, but I wonder if that desire might> change now that the Loch has changed the location of its Tuesday night> practice to Randolph Park. For Stargate to continue a Tuesday night> practice at UH it would then compete with Loch's practice night.> > I won't likely be able to make it to Randolph Park as regularly as I can> UH (when I'm not taking PM classes at least) because the drive becomes a> bit prohibitive for me on a weeknight. I can (and still would) make a> practice at UH either in addition to, or as a make-up for, the Sunday> practice (I really want to get to two practices a week soon), but I> think Tuesday night now becomes less than ideal if the Loch can't make> it due to their own scheduled practice, as I'd think we would want them> to be able to come out and play too.> > Alden> > > _______________________________________________> Coastal mailing list> Coastal at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/coastal-ansteorra.org
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