Re: Bowling Ball (was: Re: (Fwd) Re: Cookies and Mercs)

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Poster: blackbow@mindspring.com

Weight of bowling ball:  I dunno exactly.  It moved fairly easily so I'd
guess somewhere in the 6# - 8# range.

Targeting circles?  There weren't any.  Just a measuring tape lying on the
ground.  And that one stayed there, IIRC.  If the bowling ball didn't leave
the stick in a straight line, they just ran another tape out to the impact
point.  Think of a discus throw rather than attempting to aim for a specific
point.

And yes, I actually participated in this.  So did Sir Kane.  I don't
remember if any other Atlantians did.  It was at GW (IV? V?).  The idea was
to hit the bowling ball squarely 3 times:  once with what you considered
"barely" good, once "good", and once with everything you had.  Also, the
idea was to tell the guy doing the measuring what you considered your shot
to be on a 10 scale; i.e., the "barely" good being a 2 or whatever, the
"good" being a 5, and the "all" being an 8 or 9.  Or 10, logically. :)

Regards,

Jonathan Blackbow
Clan O'Shannon
-----Original Message-----
From: Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>
To: merry rose <atlantia@atlantia.sca.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 11:53 AM
Subject: Bowling Ball (was: Re: (Fwd) Re: Cookies and Mercs)


>
>Poster: Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>
>
>Thanks to those in the last day or two who have sent along the plans on
>how the "bowling ball" calibration test was/is set up.  However, two
>things are noticeably absent -- the weight of the ball, and the
>diameter of the targeting circles.  Without those bits of data, it
>makes it a little difficult to use it as an objective means of
>calibration... ;-)  Anybody know these two bits on info?
>
>Julien
>
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