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Still Time to Pre-Reg for Iris Festival & Kingdom Equestrian Champs!

29 Sunday May 2022

Posted by Krista in A&S Competition and Display, Competitions, Equestrian, Event Announcements & Updates, Fencing, Heavy List, Rapier, Thrown Weapons

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This Saturday, June 4th, The Debatable Lands welcomes Their Majesties and Highnesses to our Japanese Iris Festival as Their Majesties hold The Kingdom Equestrian Championship! This event has something for everyone – martial activities of all types, and A&S. And yes, even jousting! Check out the event announcement.

The site is in Southwestern PA (courtesy of the Shire of Steltonwald) at Brady’s Run Park in Beaver Falls. You can pre-register online until TOMORROW, MAY 30th through SCARS:
https://members.sca.org/apps/#MtgDetail/00001314 .

Cost for the event is super affordable and family-friendly: Adult registration (non-member) is $12. Adult member registration is $7. People age 17 and under are FREE.

This event also features the IRON COMET CHALLEGE (see below) and of course, Royal and Baronial Courts. Here’s the schedule for the day (tentative):

Site opens – 9 am
Part 1 Equestrian Champs – 10:30 am
Fencing tournament – 11 am
Thrown Weapons tournament – 12 noon
Arts and Sciences Competition – 1 pm
Part 2 Equestrian Champs – 1:30 pm
Heavy tournament – 2 pm
Archery tournament – 3 pm
Jousting (weather permitting) – 4 pm
Court – 5:30 pm
Tear-down after court

Have questions? Check out these FAQs:

Q. What’s the Iron Comet Challenge?

All are welcome to participate in the separate fighting, fencing, archery, and thrown weapons tournaments, as well as an A&S competition (no theme).

But for those elite few who want to test their skills as well-rounded medievalists, you can enter the Iron Comet Challenge – enter at least 3 out of the 4 martial competitions, and the A&S competition (required, all levels welcome), and be an Iron Comet Challenger competing for the highest composite score. Who will prove to be the best of the best?

You welcome to come and enjoy the competitions separately without competing in the Iron Comet Challenge, of course.

Q. Tell me more about the Arts and Sciences activities.

The competition has no theme, and all are welcome to enter it.

We are lucky enough to also have an A&S display – if you choose, there is a theme of Asian Arts and Sciences to celebrate the Japanese Iris Festival! Displays not adhering to the theme are also welcome.

There will also be a poetry competition for Japanese forms of poetry, including haiku, tanka, and if we feel brave, collaborative forms such as renga and renku.

Q. Will there be event-provided food?

Not this time, no, due to the pandemic. The event will not provide food. But please do bring your own and enjoy a picnic! (No glass bottles)

Q. What else should I know to prepare for the day?

The event is outside, but the weather forecast looks beautiful! There are a couple of shelters but you may want to bring chairs and maybe a pop-up for a place to relax.

There are three public changing tents – lords, ladies, and all gender. The all gender changing tent is next to accessible parking and accessible restrooms.

All COVID protocols will be enforced, so please remember your vaccination card (or picture of it) and ID (membership card is fine) or else your proof of negative COVID test.

Other than horses, only service animals allowed.

Q. Tell me a little about the Equestrian stuff.

The event is only open on Saturday, but those with horses are welcome to arrive Friday night. Contact THL Gesa for details.

For the Equestrian Champs, there are games and riding before prince activities hosted by Aethelmearc current Kingdom Equestrian Champion Gozen. There is also an A&S element. Contact Mistress Gozen for details, or check out the Aethelmearc Equestrian Facebook page. Activities are part of the kingdom equestrian championship, but it is open to all riders. There is also a jousting tournament!!
See you there!

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Myrkfaelinn Summer War Practice June 3-5

17 Tuesday May 2022

Posted by aethgazette in Event Announcements & Updates, Feast, Heavy List, Rapier, Thrown Weapons, Youth Activities

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Feast is FULL!! Please contact me if you want to be put on the waitlist!

There will be a fire both Friday and Sat night that everyone is welcome to join.

The camp installed new soffits in the bathhouse so no more birds nest in the bathrooms and they installed on-demand hot water!! Hot showers for everyone!!

We are following Æthelmearc’s current COVID policy – found here. You must stop at COVID check in FIRST!!! you can not unload first. If you are coming on Friday evening after 10 pm you MUST notify us beforehand!

It’s time to prepare for War – plus have a handfasting! Please join the Dominion of Myrkfaelinn for our annual War practice June 3rd-5th and help celebrate Gytha Oggsdottir and Sanada Nobukatsu’s handfasting. There will be heavy fighting, fencing, thrown weapons, children’s activities and a Feast!

The site is the beautiful Camp Barton Boy Scout Camp right on the shore of Cayuga Lake 9640 S Frontenac Rd., Trumansburg NY 14886. Site opens at Friday at 5pm and closes Sunday morning at 11am. Sideboard will be prepared by THL Cristina inghean Ghriogair. Please contact her at donnamac123@hotmail.com, 607 591-0999 with any questions or dietary restrictions.

There will be an amazing feast prepared by THL Lasairfhiona inghean Aindriasa. Please contact her via Facebook Messenger (Vicki Presler) or email at ravenheart.vp@gmail.com with any question or dietary restrictions. Not only will it be tasty but is free – donations are accepted. Feast is capped at 48.

Lady Meadbh ni Clerigh is preparing a whole range of children’s activities for our youth, so please bring them with you and keep her busy!

The Co -Autocrats are Gytha Oggsdottir (Lori Drake 101 Uptown Rd. #33, Ithaca NY 14850 607-351-8433 gythaoggs@gmail.com) and Cristina inghean Ghriogair, (Donna Ankrum donnamac123@hotmail.com 607 591-0999, 107 Oak Hill Rd., Ithaca NY 14850)

  • Adult Event Registration is $20
  • Adult Member Discount Event Registration is $15
  • Child age 0-17 are free!!!
  • Feast FREE – donations are accepted. Feast is capped at 48.

Event registration includes Saturday sideboard lunch and Saturday night camping. Camping Friday night is an additional $4 per adult.

Pre-registration is always appreciated, please send reservations to Master Hrólfr á Fjárfelli (Rolf Verberg), (607) 272-2996, at 680 Sheffield Road, Ithaca NY 14850. Make checks payable to SCA NY, Inc. – Dominion of Myrkfaelinn. Please include modern name, SCAdian name and membership number for each person covered by your payment. Also, indicate if any are minors. Include contact info for confirmation of receipt and to receive last minute notifications..

Merchants are welcome, no merchant fees.

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Proposed New Thrown Weapons Royal Round Rules

17 Tuesday Aug 2021

Posted by aethgazette in Thrown Weapons

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Greetings Æthelmearc,

As some of you have probably heard there has been a lot of talk about possible changes to the Royal Round. Before I get into any details please remember 2 things:

  1. These talks have been talks going on for a couple of years between the Kingdoms – though Æthelmearc’s throwers and marshals are just finding out about them.
  2. NOTHING is set in stone. We are just talking about this and your opinion matters.

There are many throwers out there that travel to different Kingdoms and this would allow that thrower to throw the same Royal Round no matter where they are at. Also you would not have to search out an Æthelmearc marshal to run the Royal Round for you in such places like Pennsic and Gulf Wars as the rules are the same.

There was a meeting several weeks ago and we had approximately 11 of the 20 Kingdoms represented. Of those Kingdoms there is what some of their current Royal Rounds are:

Comparison of Thrown Weapons rules by Kingdom

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From the information above, for the most part, things are about the same and some are more of an endurance undertaking.

***This is what is being proposed.

There will be a separate Royal Round average for axe, knife, and spear for those who wish to do it.

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A Royal Round for axe would consist of 5 throws from the 10’ line and 5 throws from the 20’ line. A Royal Round for knife would also consist of 5 throws from the 10’ line and 5 throws from the 20’ line. I do know that at this point some of you have noticed that if you wish to do a Royal Round for both axe and knife it would be a total of 20 throws, and 30 if you wish to add spear in, hence why each form would be its own rank. As in another marshal discipline, you would be able to submit a Royal Round for each weapon form once per day/practice… Again if you choose.

There has been talk of adding calibration throws into the royal rounds. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is when you move from the 10’ to the 20’ line you would get a couple of throws to make sure you can hit the target before you continue with your royal round.

Weapon requirements/regulations:

Axe: Any blade edge over 5″ must be clearly marked with a 5″ defined scoring edge.

Knife: The tip of the blade must touch in order to score.

Spear: Length needs to be between 3’-8’ with a blade width no larger than 3” wide, and will score if the blade is in the target, even if the handle is on the ground.

Target height should be between 40-60” for axe and knife and the height for spear is still being talked about. Our current target height is 40-50”, so we would in fact, gain 10”.

There would be no changes to the target size and no change to the ring sizes.

With talk of changing the scoring and the number of throws here is a comparison of ranks.

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The rank values are quite different but all the ranks are there, and are comparable to the present ranks. I have no issue with possibly creating some kind of recognition for those who wish to do all the weapons forms if they so wish.

Please let me know your questions or concerns by emailing me at: thrownweapons@aethelmearc.org

In Service,

Baroness Anastasie deLamoure
Æthelmearc Thrown Weapons Marshal

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Changes to Thrown Weapons Rules

08 Tuesday Jun 2021

Posted by aethgazette in Officer Announcements, Thrown Weapons

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Greetings Everyone!!

Over the last several months I have been working on updates to the Thrown Weapons Rules, and they have now been completed. Here are some of the major changes, but a good read through is highly suggested.

  1. Closed toed shoes are no longer required.
  2. Spears have only been added to the Royal Round part of the rules and are only for those who wish to do it…. So, NOT a requirement.
  3. Sling ammunition/targets has been further defined.
  4. Plumbata has been added to the rules.
  5. ATL ATL has been removed from the thrown weapons rules, as it has been moved to archery at the Society level.
  6. A Thrower’s highest rank achieved will be permanent regardless of the age of the thrower or current average.

If you have any questions please direct them to me at thrownweapons@aethelmearc.org.

In Service,

Baroness Anastasie deLamoure
Æthelmearc Thrown Weapons Marshal

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New Kingdom Thrown Weapons Competition

25 Tuesday May 2021

Posted by aethgazette in Competitions, Thrown Weapons

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Greetings onto the Throwers of Æthelmearc do I, Baroness Anastasie, send greetings and put forth this competition.

This isn’t a big competition but one to help challenge you and to help get you back in the swing of everything. I know we have trained ourselves to aim for the center of the target, this however will be a little more of accuracy than aiming for what we have trained ourselves to do.

This is to be done on a normal Royal Round target, scoring is as follows:

  • 3-inch circle equal to 4 points.
  • 8-inch circle equal to 7 points.
  • 14-inch circle equal to 10 points.
  • Outside of the 14-inch circle equal to 1 point.

So as you can tell, you want to aim for the 14” ring. The number of weapons will be the same, 4 axes and 4 knives from the 10’ line and 2 each from the 20’ line. This can be done at any thrown weapons practice, a normal Royal Round score sheet can be used and you can email me the scores. Please only score per practice, only exceptions would be if you wanted to do something like trying it off hand (mark with OF) or a separate spear Royal Round (mark with SP, special categories).

This will start June 1st and will continue June 30th. I know it’s not a whole lot of time but there will be more to come after that.

There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and first for offhand and spear if anyone does them.

Please remember to maintain social distancing, wear your masks, do your best and I look forward to seeing the scores.

In Service,

Baroness Anastasie deLamoure
Æthelmearc Thrown Weapons Marshal
thrownweapons@aethelmearc.org

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Deadline 11/15: Kingdom Thrown Weapons Marshal Letters

12 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by Krista in Officer Announcements, Thrown Weapons

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From our Kingdom Thrown Weapons Marshal, Master Antonio de Luna:

Good gentles,

This is a final call for letters of interest in the position of Kingdom
Thrown Weapons Marshal. Submissions should be sent by November 15th.

For more information, please see the announcement on the Æthelmearc Website.

Antonio

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Call for Letters: Kingdom Thrown Weapons Marshal, New Rules

24 Monday Aug 2020

Posted by aethgazette in Archery, Officer Announcements, Thrown Weapons

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Call for Letters, Thrown Weapons Rules

Thrown weapons medalUnto the people of Æthelmearc, greetings from the Kingdom Thrown Weapons
Marshal!

Rules

As discussed during Pennsic last year, changes have been made to the Society Thrown Weapons rules.

Overall, they are not drastic, but do include the formal addition of Plumbata and Sling to Thrown Weapons, and the transition of Atlatl over to Archery.

Please note that those of you with Atlatl warrants issued through thrown weapons will need to contact the Kingdom Archer General to discuss carrying them over. This is not an automatic transition.

Kingdom rules reflecting these changes are in the works.

Letters of Interest for Kingdom TW Marshall

While the plague may have robbed us of some of our time together, my term still comes to a close at the end of this year. As such, all those who would have a desire to serve this Kingdom as Thrown Weapons Marshal are asked to submit a letter of interest at this time.

The position oversees and promotes all thrown weapons activities within the Kingdom as well as our compliance with Society Thrown Weapons policies. The position also supports Thrown Weapons on the Pennsic range and will run (or appoint someone to run) those activities at Pennsic 50.

The normal time commitment for this position is an hour or so per week and does require some travel within the Kingdom. During Pennsic, expect to spend 4 to 8 hours per day on the range.

You should include your experience in thrown weapons and the SCA, what things you would like to change or simply improve upon in thrown weapons, and any other relevant information you feel would allow us to make an informed decision.

Letters should be sent to Their Majesties (ae.king@aethelmearc.org) (ae.queen@aethelmearc.org), the Earl Marshal (ae.marshal@aethelmearc.org) and myself (ae.twmarshal@aethelmearc.org).

The office typically transitions at Kingdom 12th Night.

It has been my pleasure to serve in this capacity, and I look forward to the continued growth with in our little community.

In service to Æthelmearc and Thrown Weapons,
Maestro Antonio de Luna

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From the Kingdom Thrown Weapons Marshal

05 Tuesday May 2020

Posted by aethgazette in Kingdom News, Thrown Weapons

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Greetings Æthelmearc from the Kingdom Thrown Weapons Marshal.

Because we are currently unable to gather for practices and events, I will be freezing the rankings. This also means that I will not be accepting score submissions until we are able to get together again.

Be safe, throw when you can, and I’ll see everyone on the other side of this mess.

Antonio

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Quick and Easy Thrown Weapons Ranges

14 Wednesday Aug 2019

Posted by Krista in Thrown Weapons

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From Baron Caleb Reynolds:

Hello fellow thrown weapons marshals, MITs, and people who might be thinking about thrown weapons.

I wish to take a few moments to explain a quick and easy way to measure a thrown weapons range. Now, most marshals have little issue with the safety aspect of the range (one entrance, clear 45s, etc) but I keep seeing my fellow marshals mark off the distances in the most convoluted ways possible. This is my method:

You will need some equipment.

calebrange1calebrange21) Ground marking paint. This is spray paint that is designed to be applied while the can is upside down. I buy mine at Ollie’s and it costs about $4 a can. Two cans are good for weekly practices all season long.

2) A paint marking wand. I got mine on Amazon for under $20. If you have a bad back, it is worth it. Even if you don’t have a bad back, it is worth it. It allows you to spray one, continuous line as fast as you can walk.

3) A tent peg or a big nail.

4) A 50 or 100ft tape measure. I buy mine from Harbor Freight. They are cheap and I don’t care if I get paint on the tape. I keep a tent peg attached to the tape so that I never have to hunt one down. The tent peg lets you mark out the range all by yourself.
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When you figure out where your range will be, and where your entrance will be, mark out your zero line. This is where the butts will be. Put the peg in the ground and stretch the tape out; make sure that it is taut and long enough for all of your stands.calebrange4

For the Hael’s practice range, I marked out lines for eight stands, even though we only set up four stands. This allows us to shift the stands over a few feet every other week so that the grass can be mowed and so that we don’t wear big holes in the yard.

Now, my paint wand sprays in-line with the wheel. Most do. So if you run the wheel on your measuring tape, you will just paint over your tape. So, run the wheel right next to the tape. Your line will be off by a couple of inches, just keep this in mind. Set up your stands such that the center of the butts line up with your zero line.
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Move the tape perpendicular to your zero line and stick the peg into the center of the zero line at one end of the line. Like so:
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Push the peg firmly into the ground and keep the ring of the measuring tape on the ground. Stretch the tape out and mark off the 10′ and 20′ marks.

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Repeat on the other end of the zero line. If your zero line is really long, you can also mark 10 and 20 feet from the middle of the zero line. Then move the measuring tape to one of your 10′ marks and stretch the tape to the other mark. Remember, to keep from spraying over your tape, we have to run the wheel next to the tape. So, plant your peg a wheel’s distance away from the tape.
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Remember to plant the peg about 2″ away from the mark you made and stretch the tape so that it is about 2″ away from your mark, as well. This is important, make sure that the line you draw lines up with the 10′ marks you made.calebrange10

Repeat this process at the 20′ line. And your 30′ line, if you want one.

This might sound like a lot of work, but it took me less than 15 minutes to set up the range you see depicted, and that includes the time I spent taking about 50 pictures. If you have a helper to move the other end of the tape, you can mark out a range in five or six minutes.
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But, Caleb, I hear you say, wouldn’t just be easier to plop the stands down, measure out 10 and 20 feet and put a short line in front of each target? Or stick a driveway marker at the 10′ and 20′ spot? You could do this. But, I prefer a long line that runs the length of the range. There are advantages to this. First, if you have to move the stand because of a hole, you won’t have to re-measure your distances. Two, it’s easier to see the line if the spot in front of one target gets scuffed out, or covered up with mud: the entire line won’t be scuffed out and it will be easier to fix on the fly. Three, you ensure that all targets are lined up evenly. Four, if you want to add an additional target, all of the work is already done. Five, sticks, driveway markers, tent pegs and other items can be stepped on, or kicked over. And then accidentally pushed into the wrong spot, inches away from the intended spot.

A little bit of work, in the morning, will save you a lot of extra work later in the day. And the less time you spend setting up the range and fixing issues, the more time you will have to throw.

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Chatelaine and Local Seneschals News from the Society Seneschal

24 Wednesday Jul 2019

Posted by Krista in Announcements, Combat Archery, Corporate News, demos, Officer Announcements, Thrown Weapons

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seneschal_badgeGreetings to All Kingdom Seneschals in North America,

There has been much discussion lately concerning the use of waivers at demos held by local groups.

After reaching a consensus with the Corporate officers, effective immediately, waivers are required for demos that allow the public to participate in combat archery and/or thrown weapons.

At that point, with possibly other activities as well, viewers become participants and a waiver must be signed.  Minors MUST have their parent or legal guardian sign such waivers.

The Seneschal’s Handbook will be updated very soon to reflect this policy. […]

Thank you for your support.

Respectfully,
Mike Watkins
Society Seneschal

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