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Ongoing Self Calibration
Poster: Dawn_Skully@notesgw.hns.com
Greetings to all here at the Merry Rose -
I have been following the calibration chat with interest. We have the bowling
ball thingy to help calibrate how hard a blow is thrown but I haven't heard a
way to calibrate receiving a blow.
I've often listened to grumpy fighters doing a post-mortem on a fight and I've
wondered why they don't tell it to the guy they were fighting because he/she is
the one that needs to hear it. My next thought is sometimes something along the
lines of "Yeah, then we'd really see a fight". What we need is a regular,
non-threatening process for feedback from one fighter to another.
What if it were custom to have a debriefing(??) Marshall? After each and every
Atlantian tourney match, both fighters would walk off the field and over to the
Marshall. The Marshall asks each in turn whatever the Marshallate decides
should be asked at this time. For example the Marshall should ask if there were
any untaken blows that a fighter would like explained. The other fighter
explains why the blow wasn't good. Most fighters have a very good reason for
not taking a blow. Those that don't have one will soon learn that they should.
If there's discussion required, the Marshall is there to steer it towards
constructive, instructional dialog, to point out that good armor is to keep you
safe, not make the other guy hit you harder, and to explain SCA policy if
needed.
This kind of regular feedback would give Atlantia's fighters a tool for both
continued self improvement in the lists (one wouldn't, after all, wish to
continue throwing a particular blow that most likely won't be called) and for
ongoing self calibration (if you are questioned about taking blows after each
and every tourney, you might want to think that over). At the very least, if
this were to become a common practice, I would expect it to heighten awareness
in each of our fighters which would go a long way toward safer, non-grumpy, SCA
fighting.
Aurora
dskully@hns.com
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