this weeks rant

madrab

hey all

first of all apolagies to all for missing out on sat
i kinda sorta slept it out

oops :-)


anyway went down on sunday and was givin a warning by tony about my dress code, i was wearing a pair of shoes a pair of jeans and a red t-shirt, and that if i dressed like that again i wouldnt be aloud to shoot

humm what do i do?

Renegade_Archer

In fairness madrab its a FITA shoot, if you go to a FITA, expect grief over the dresscodes. Its why I prefer intervarsities to be honest, more relaxed, and more fun all around.


Gotta wonder tho, what would happen if around 20 of us turned up in non-whites, do you think he would disqualify the lot of us? :P

Aryzel

must have been the red t-shirt cause i just had jeans and a white t-shirt and noone said anything. Then again maybe someone did say something to me, i wasn't in much of a condition to notice anything

The intervarsity shoots are completely relaxed, but the IAAA are ment to at least try and stick to FITA rules so i suppose we should make an effort now and then.

Tech Overhaul

Why do we have to wear white anyhow? Its the hardest colour trousers to get if you're male.

Aryzel

FITA rules, i presume that its because if someone is still on the range white is probably the easier colour to see. Green would probably be less noticeable

Also, i figure at some time someone in FITA went to a competition and saw everyone wearing all sorts of clothes and thought this doesn't give a solid professional look to the sport, so introduced a rule that everyone had to the same colour. Its hard to pick a colour that noone would object to, so white would inevitibly get picked as the base colour, once team colours were also allowed.

Panserborn

I was at a shoot a while back and a guy wearing a red longsleve was told to change it or get off the line because red distracted the other archers on the line.

Personally, I think thats pretty crap because if the colour of another shooter's clothes on the line distracts you then your problem really goes a lot deeper!

trig

Sidestepping the whole white issue for a moment, Tony will now be checking IAAA membership cards at all IAAA shoots from now on, so if you're not a member of a club and the IAAA, you wont be allowed shoot. As far as I know, that includes Blackheath's shoot this weekend and will undoubtedly include the nationals after GMIT IV.

And no, you can't claim yours hasn't arrived yet, both DIT's and Dublin Archers had arrived within a week so that won't work.

So the dress code will be the least of some people's worries, not looking at anyone in particular....

halenger

Last time I joined the IAAA I never got a membership card, though I asked about it repeatidly. Good to hear they're finally sending them out. I'll rejoin...at some later stage.

halenger

Panserborn wrote:

I was at a shoot a while back and a guy wearing a red longsleve was told to change it or get off the line because red distracted the other archers on the line.

Personally, I think thats pretty crap because if the colour of another shooter's clothes on the line distracts you then your problem really goes a lot deeper!

I have to agree though for slightly different reasons, not that yours aren't valid. Is red an illegible colour to choose for club colours? I can't remember if there's restrictions on that. I remember choosing the dark green cause I knew it'd be inconspiuous so to speak. What about Keith's yellow Beiter top though? Does Tony give out to him on it? (serious question)

Any how. It such rules on club colours don't exist then it really wouldn't be fair to penalize the guy in red if a club could just as well use that colour. The logo/branding really wouldn't make that much of a difference (distraction wise).

trig

Well yellow is the Sportslink club colour anyway. And Keith is a Sportslink member isn't he? I thought you would know that halenger?!?

Aryzel

trig, will you have my card in time for the nationals in galway?

trig

I'm pretty sure it'll arrive by then. As I said, I sent out DITs and Dublin Archers and had the cards in about a week. Yours is being posted tomorrow as I'm sending off a load of Dublin Archers memberships together and will have them all tomorrow. That leaves plenty of time if Pauline does them as quick as before.

If anybody else wants to join Dublin Archers so they can shoot in the IAAA competitions please send me a PM and I can get details and money off you at the UCD Intervarsity.

Panserborn

halenger wrote:

Is red an illegible colour to choose for club colours? I can't remember if there's restrictions on that.

Fair point - I don't recall any colour restrictions, so as long as you "offically" make red your club colour then it's fair game!

If red was a problem then club colours for Cork would be difficult since red is kinda their county colour. Could have a problem here in Galway as well cause maroon is about as close to red as you can get without being red!

madrab

no red aint an illegal colour

infact it would have been sportlsinks club colour in jim murray had his way

Chriswx

surely black would be better than white, all cool and evil looking especially when holding a bow....

this sounds like a discussion that will never be resolved. also from what ive seen of fita competitions there is no rules on bow, quiver, arrow etc colours so why is there such a big deal about clothes?!

halenger

trig wrote:

Well yellow is the Sportslink club colour anyway. And Keith is a Sportslink member isn't he? I thought you would know that halenger?!?

Good point. I do know that now that you mention it... Just a long time since I thought about it. I was just remembering he also sold those beiter tops. Nevermind. My point remains though. It's unfair that a red top that's not a club colours can be called distracting whereas same with club logo isn't. Fine it wasn't club colours. That was reason enough to give rather than that it was a distraction.

Maybe I'm just being pedantic/ranting.

trig

Chriswx wrote:

there is no rules on bow, quiver, arrow etc colours so why is there such a big deal about clothes?!

I think it boils down to the fact there are people out there who want to put rules on everything, and those same people are the ones who get themselves to positions where they can make those decisions. The rest of us are just too apathetic. Mostly.

baggins

top marks on the apathy there trig