RF - fighter practice

[Peer2]

As I recall, the Conroe practice was due to the (at that time) large numbers
of fighters in the immediate area, and promote the SCA in an area with
little previous expoosure. With some of the fighters gone and others laden
with mundane responsibilities, that need has become obsolete. As for the
recruitment . . . well, have we drawn in any new folks because of the Conroe
practice? I don't know of any off hand, but I'm behind in the news there. I
have seen lots of people stop by to ask questions, but that's about it as
far as I know.

Now that I think on it, the Conroe practices started getting thin when the
"novelty" started to wear off. Yet we still have a somewhat large number of
people in that area who are non-fighters. Perhaps the mini-tourney idea
would be the best way to keep promoting the SCA and give a non-fighting
alternative at the same time.

Hmmm . . . I think I have changed my vote. I'll agree with Jean-Michel and
Niklas on this point. The Conroe practices should be cancelled (or at least
replaced).

-- Cedric Aeschere Einarsson
Peer2 at msn.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Meaux <j_meaux at yahoo.com>
To: ravensfort <ravensfort at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: RF - fighter practice


> greetings,
>
> well, i have seen many thoughts and comments on
> fighter practice and i need to express mine so that
> every one can see them.
> 1st, there are only a handfull of fighters in this
> barony, sir kief, HE brian, HE dsd, lords cahail,
> william, kris(still fairly new to fighting, myself
> (jean-michel) and Lady Hrafna are the only ones that
> attend fighting on the heavy side with regularity. HE
> chrystal, Don Zorkon, cahail and hrafna occasionally
> fighting on the light side.  That is only ten fighters
> that attend practice on a somewhat regular schedule.
> This is augmented by about ten more supporters.
>
> 2nd, how many of these hail from the conroe area, two,
> that is william and cahail.These both attend practice
> in huntsville. So does having a practice in the conroe
> area warrant the attention. I think that it is not a
> good idea, the scheduled candy cane park practice has
> changed twice that i know of, even when attended is
> usually smaller than the huntsville practice. I think
> that we should boost attendence at our "main" practice
> and try to do demo's in that area to encourage
> interest. These are usually more organized and people
> respond better when we have an activity taking place.
> Such as a mini-tourney.
>
> 3rd, So can we try and organize a mini-tourney in the
> conroe area once a quarter to encourage attendance and
> do a small demo for recruitment purposes.
>
> These are just my thoughts but they do have a sound
> reasoning behind them. Any comments are welcome but
> all those that have commented seem to support the
> ideas that i have expressed.
>
> i am
> jean-michel
>
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