[Steppes] Fighter Practice Location: question

[Jack Spinks]

Thank you for your most gracious answer.  These are good points and answer
questions that I had wondered about for a while but, spending most time at
archery, could not get answered adequately.  Although 1 or 2 archers can
practice and have a good time, I have found that the level of fun goes up
exponentially with the number of participants for archery as well since we
can run games and contests that 2 people cannot do.  And we only rarely drop
below half a dozen people at Eastfield practice nowadays so we almost always
have a great time at the minimum.   Two people usually wind up in an
instructional mode or, if matched well, a comparitive/competitive mode and
usually finish up early.

Out of curiosity- how many people actually attend fighter practice on a
regualar week in week out basis?  And how many nonparticipants?  I do not
believe I have ever heard or seen real numbers- just references to low
turnouts.

I believe you also bring up another good point- some folks would attend
Elfsea by way of convenience or turnout anyway if that is their primary
interest.  How far is it from where the current practice is held?

Jacques the Spink

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Smith <morganbuchanan at hotmail.com>
To: <steppes at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Fighter Practice Location: question


> There is a problem with trying to compare archery practice to fighter
> practice.  A lone archer can practice and have fun.  A lone fighter
cannot.
> Two archers can have a nice social time, regardless of their disparate
skill
> levels.  Two heavy fighters cannot, really.  Two fighters in one location
> and two in another is not 2 groups having 1/2 as much fun as they could.
> It's 2 groups having like 20% as much fun as they can.  Heavy fighting
gets
> exponentially entertaining because you can fight so many different people
> and there are group activities.  Essentially individual activities
progress
> in entertainment value in a linear manner.  I'm not saying it's not a LOT
> more fun do do individual activities in groups, but the actual activity
> itself doesn't become more fun.
>
> Please do not take my rebuttal as a condemnation...continue to post your
> questions and ideas, they are excellent.
>
> It would be NICE if we could find a common ground where all fighters in
the
> Steppes were able to attend practice.  But a lot of people raised their
> hands as being people who owned armour at the big populace meeting last
> year.  A lot of people said they'd try to show up at fighter practices.
And
> many of them haven't shown up at a single practice since that time,
> unfortunately.
>
> The fact of low fighter attendance at practice pre-dates the practice
moving
> to Carrollton.  I didn't attend many practices at the Hill, because the
> practice in ElfSea at Randol Mill had better attendance at the time and I
> was much less "Steppes-Active" so that didn't then matter to me.
>
> I will take a straw poll on Sunday to get the opinions of the fighters who
> are in attendance at practice.  Many of these individuals will not be at
> Populace, but deserve to have thier voices heard.
>
> Morgan
>
> From: <jspinks at ix.netcom.com>
>
> I can see the various pros and cons of having the practice at the various
> locations discussed.  And yes- the practice is primarily for the fighters
> but is also for all those that support them as well it seems to me. There
> have also been a lot of other excellent points that have been brought out
as
> well.
>
> But I have a question that I do not think I have seen answered or perhaps
I
> do not adequately understand all of the issues since I am not on all of
the
> mail lists and not yet a fighter.
>
> We went through some similar discussions about locations and distance to
> practice etc a year or two in the archery groups.  The result was that we
> now have a regular Steppes practice held at Eastfield College and another
> practice held alternately by Glaslyn and Lindenwood Archery Marshals at
> McInnis Park Archery range near I35 and Sandy Lake.    On any given
weekend
> archers may show at one or the other or both locations.
>
> Although I realize the requirements and objectives are different- could
such
> an arrangement of east and west practice locations work for fighter
practice
> as well and more adequately meet everyones needs?  Both locations are
doing
> well for archery and both reporting new archers on a regular basis with
> Eastfield seeing as high as a dozen archers at times.
>
> Jacques the Spink
>
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