AWESOME TRAINING OPPORTUNITY

dukelogan · Post by **dukelogan** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:08 am

hrh of atlantia, prince vladimir, has a squire with vision. looking for a fundraising opportunity squire abel of regnesfolc came up with a great idea. instructors volunteer an hour of one on one time and people buy tickets to be placed in a drawing for that time. fighters, duelists, artisans have all offered this time (currently 34 of them).

but you dont have to live in atlantia to take advantage of this. the hour of time is good for a year and will be scheduled between the instructor and the winner. you can purchase tickets on line via the website: http://ebonwoulfe.com/ka.htm most of the instructors will be at pennsic and you can always schedule that time there! many of them live close enough to kingdom borders (east, middle, meridies, trimaris) that you can schedule time at an event near you.

for those that are disinclined to approach that superduke or that awesome artisan or that deadly duelist, this is your opportunity to get that personal time with them.

yes, everyone that has offered their time to teach someone would do so for free. but this is an opportunity to get that training and help with atlantias stupid low royal travel fund!! any questions, just shoot me an email at logan@ebonwoulfe.com

here is an email i just sent out to our kingdoms mailing list:

wow!! 34 people offering a one on one training opportunity. how very cool.

households, do not forget that you can enter tickets with "house X" on them and then figure out who gets the time with the instructor. this allows for greater flexibility among your members and gives you greater buying power. house blackspear did this very thing at the event last weekend and now they have four or five blocks of time to get that specialized training for their guys.

bryce de byram also did a cool thing last weekend and entered a bunch of tickets, winning three. these will be given as gifts to fighters from him. its called "largess"!

we currently have

21 knights
3 duelists
10 artisans

dont forget you need not be present to offer time as an instructor nor to enter into the drawings. if you cant make the event you can enter the drawing by either purchasing chances on the website http://ebonwoulfe.com/ka.htm or by purchasing tickets through any member of the staff prior to the event (just be sure to tell that staff member which name(s) you would like your tickets to go towards.

to volunteer to teach or for any questions please contact me.

regards and thanks!
logan

Diglach Mac Cein · Post by **Diglach Mac Cein** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:32 am

For what charity?

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Leo Medii · Post by **Leo Medii** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:35 am

I would love to train folks.

I just couldn't bring myself to ask real life $ for it.

DukeSean · Post by **DukeSean** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:45 am

Simply Brilliant!

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:01 am

Atlantian Royal Travel Fund.

Dilan wrote:For what charity?

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Ceadda · Post by **Ceadda** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:02 am

I think this is a brilliant idea.

and Dilian, I believe its stated this is for raising funds for the Royal Travel Fund, but the idea could be utilized for any Chairty in any Kingdom.

Vitus von Atzinger · Post by **Vitus von Atzinger** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:08 am

So you are volunteering to organize such a thing for the Midrealm travel fund? Great idea!

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:45 am

Leo Medii wrote:I would love to train folks.

I just couldn't bring myself to ask real life $ for it.

At a rate of $2 an hour and donated to your Kingdom? Really?

Ceadda · Post by **Ceadda** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:15 pm

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:So you are volunteering to organize such a thing for the Midrealm travel fund? Great idea!

Well I've only a few months left in the Midrealm, some of which will be traveling out of state and overseas for work. But it'd be great if a Peer would actually step up.

Leo Medii · Post by **Leo Medii** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:38 pm

BdeB wrote:
Leo Medii wrote:I would love to train folks.

I just couldn't bring myself to ask real life $ for it.

At a rate of $2 an hour and donated to your Kingdom? Really?

I just am not sure about how I feel about getting real life stuff for something I would willingly do for free. I'm all about raising money for charity, and the royal travel funds. I am not sure how I feel about this sort of thing though. A while back there was a long discussion about "pay" martial arts. It made me think long and hard about why I participate in such things, and the possibility of charging $ for it.

BdeB · Post by **BdeB** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:06 pm

Leo Medii wrote:
BdeB wrote:
Leo Medii wrote:I would love to train folks.

I just couldn't bring myself to ask real life $ for it.

At a rate of $2 an hour and donated to your Kingdom? Really?

I just am not sure about how I feel about getting real life stuff for something I would willingly do for free. I'm all about raising money for charity, and the royal travel funds. I am not sure how I feel about this sort of thing though. A while back there was a long discussion about "pay" martial arts. It made me think long and hard about why I participate in such things, and the possibility of charging $ for it.

No worries we had other knights with similar thoughs. Here is the jist of the arguement in simpliest form. All of us knights teach. That is part of our vocation. The seceret is that any of us would do this if asked. Some folks are hesitatant to do so. The lottery gives them the chance to do that. Anything that links up a teacher with a student that would not normally have that chance, is a good thing. Anything that gets our chivalry more active and training and gets cross-pollation of ideas out there improves our fighting culture. That it helps the King and Queen is really a bonus. You aren't getting money for your training/teaching after all. You are raising money for a cause.

Regards,
b

Leo Medii · Post by **Leo Medii** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:31 pm

That is what I needed to hear.

I'd do it, but I don't teach SCA fighting.

dukelogan · Post by **dukelogan** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:37 pm

exactly. in fact, i had a few people come to me this past weekend where we held our first drawing to say how much they appreciated the ease in getting a chance to train with someone. personally i dont get the fear in asking a knight (or whomever) to work with you but it seems to be a very real situation for a lot of people, especially newer ones.

and, unlike a typical practice or the pick up field at, say, pennsic the trainee doesnt have to worry about monopolizing your time. every year at pennsic i get 5 to 10 guys wanting to do pick ups with me after every battle. i learned some years ago that i needed to tell them before we started that i could only give them a few passes since i had a bunch of people waiting behind them. before learning that important lesson i made the mistake of standing out there with them until i was tired or they got tired. by the time i was done with three of them i was beat, the other guys took off, and an hour and a half was gone. so, someone wanting to work with me will have me for a solid hour uninteruppted. hard for someone 6 hours north of me to get that at an event im at (too many other things going on). and a cat from idaho will never have that opportunity since he and i wont see each other at events other than pennsic. he buys a ticket and it gets picked he can request it for pennsic and im all his for that hour.

and, as bdeb stated correctly, you aint gettin the money. :wink:

regards
logan

Kenwrec Wulfe · Post by **Kenwrec Wulfe** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:14 pm

That is a brilliant idea!

maxntropy · Post by **maxntropy** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:41 pm

dukelogan wrote: personally i dont get the fear in asking a knight (or whomever) to work with you but it seems to be a very real situation for a lot of people, especially newer ones.

Interestingly, this very issue is also the subject of a thread of discussion on the Girls Club forum moderated by Mistress Cunian -- and I believe the general problem is even more acute when it comes to women. My response to a post on the matter was:

While I agree with Audax that fighting, like all Martial Arts, helps develop and build character -- I think that it is also, as she explains, and more importantly, a character *revealing* activity by providing us numerous ongoing opportunities to test ourselves in the Crucible of Chivalry.

Like the broader SCA, fighting allows us the opportunity to demonstrate and continuously work towards the type of person that we *want* to be -- do we want to be the type of person that tackles our fears and challenges, gathers-up our will and our spirit to make the leap of faith necessary to do that which we otherwise might avoid? Do we want to be the type of person that does the hard things, and pushes themselves forward, and pushes-out their comfort zone?

If so, then we must look within, ask the hard questions, and determine if we are truly willing to do the hard work, make the hard decisions, and take the hard actions -- for these are all actions, and require action.

Remember that there is nothing wrong with answering in the negative, and finding that "the stress and scrutiny of others" and the hard work and hardships of the martial path are not in your character -- or that you need to develop and build to that character (and are willing to work in that direction -- for you *can* develop positive character traits and change yourself for the better).

Fighters fight. They cannot be shy, because they cannot shirk -- from anything. Embarrassment is a form of fear, and Courage is a chivalric virtue -- so to be on the path of Chivalry, one must work to gird-up one's bravery by confronting (and thus minimizing) those fears. I believe honorable fighters challenge-up, intentionally and aggressively seeking-out and confronting those on the field whom are believed to be their betters as a chance both for personal progress and for glory and renown. I also believe wise fighters seek-out fighters of greater experience and renown (both on and off the field) and ask them to teach them, to observe their fighting, and to provide insights on ways they might improve their fighting.

I honestly and deeply understand and empathize with the difficulties that introverts have with such efforts (and there are all sorts've baby-step tricks like those discussed that can be taken to get there, such as asking known folks to introduce you, asking-for and setting-up training or fights before-hand by email or discussion lists, walking up to folks in a group to introduce yourself with generalities, etc...

But it is just such difficulties, and the overcoming of such fears that provide the opportunities for growth and the revelations of character upon which true self-esteem and pride can be built.

I think that the auction/lottery system that Abel and King Logan have devised is an excellent approach to help minimize many of the difficulties associated with people gaining access to expertise and training, and to cross-pollinating skills and techniques across our oft-localized game... but I still believe that becoming a fighter requires bravery, and that bravery requires the identification and confrontation of fears -- including the fear of approaching people and being extroverted.

Max Von Halstern