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<DIV><SPAN class=534571021-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hell,
I'm practicing whether the local marshal is there or not...I could care less how
many people go out to an event this weekend. If one person shows up to
fight, it'll be time well spent. :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=534571021-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Valentyn</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> elfsea-bounces@ansteorra.org
[mailto:elfsea-bounces@ansteorra.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Glen
Wilkerson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 29, 2003 9:58 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
steppes@ansteorra.org; elfsea@ansteorra.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Elfsea]
Fighter Practices<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I have noticed a trend lately, when marshals
are travelling to out of town events, of cancelling official regularly
scheduled Sunday fighter practices. It has never been standard practice
in my 25 years in the SCA, and until only recently was just never done.
Where did this idea suddenly come from that if the marshal couldn't attend
practice, practice couldn't happen?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Practice is going to happen, fighting is going
to occur, the recent e-mail traffic is proof of that. Marshals, if you
are going out of town - even if the majority of local fighters are going out
of town - you don't cancel practice. That's what deputy marshals are
for, and unofficial deputys of deputys.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>When you return from your event you find out
who went to practice, you interview them to find out what happened, and that's
what goes in your report - not "practice was cancelled." Fighters, keep
an eye on what goes on at practice as a courtesy to your marshal when he is
absent, and report to him afterwards. And if the marshal receives
several such reports, all the better. The more information he receives,
the better he can make an informed montly report.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>At least that's what worked for me during the
five years I was Rapier Marshal of the Steppes, and while I haven't been to
any practices for way longer than I like, when I do finally come back I want
them to still be there. There has only ever been one reason to cancel a
regular fighter practice aside from weather, and that's when a close
neighboring group had a major event. You cancelled your practice as a
courtesy, and an occasion to go visit your neighbors.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Don Alaric Greythorne</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>PS - And of course, those wonderful combined
practices we used to have...</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>