Back from Nationals in San Diego and I have to vent.

It's a god damn stick and a string that launches another pointy stick. It's not some mystical magical device that transports you to a Zen like state coming in touch with your inner-self in a past life in a simpler existence bringing you your inner-peace. Go to the adult bookstore on the other side of I-5 they probably have a more cost effective solution for you.

Why in the name of Zuess's butthole would a parent buy their 9 year old a $1,400 Hoyt RX riser with bamboo limbs and $600 worth of Easton X10 arrows when they can barely keep 3 arrows on a single target bale?

To the recurve archer that said, "I'm an archer, you can wait!" as I politely said, "Excuse me." while I was trying to get through the passageway to the equipment storage area. Excuse me I'm an archer, an archer's dad and an archery coach and I need to get one of my archers their backup release since they just had an equipment failure on the line. How did my knee in your right butt cheek feel as I forced my way through?

No, I'm not evil because I shoot a compound instead of a recurve. I also prefer the taste of elk instead of tofu.

What? You're seriously going to pay $50 to file a dress code protest because an archer's jersey has their shop logo which includes an antlered elk skull and you find it offensive? Here, let me pay $50 to file a protest on your shop's hot pink jerseys. I find it offensive that you have men wearing hot pink.

We love going to the Olympic Training Center in San Diego for tournaments. It's just a fundamentally different crowd and mentality from what we have here in Arizona.

I went to Commiefornia, I mean California once. No archery or competition, just a visit.
I will not go back.

Wow. Sounds like California is the place NOT to be. On one hand I like the idea of making people pay to lodge a complaint. But if a place also feels it has to charges members to complain, it says a lot about the members of that place too. Even they recognize their members (themselves) are full of shit.

As for expensive equipment and no skill. Happens a lot. All you can do is shake your head and laugh.

The $50 to file a protest is not a California thing, it's in the USA Archery rule book. I don't have a problem with it. It's $50 to file a protest and it is refunded if the ruling goes in your favor. It usually keeps out the frivolous protests.

What I do have a problem with is somebody feeling so righteous that they need to enforce their views and values on everyone else.

I'll be in whackyland next month, actually a rather conservative area but still with leftist idiots around.

I'll do my part to engage the loons and enjoy watch them getting their heads spinning. Nothing works better than logic and facts.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
The $50 to file a protest is not a California thing, it's in the USA Archery rule book. I don't have a problem with it. It's $50 to file a protest and it is refunded if the ruling goes in your favor. It usually keeps out the frivolous protests.

What I do have a problem with is somebody feeling so righteous that they need to enforce their views and values on everyone else.

There's the problem. Asshat thought he was right and would get his money back. If the book said the Archery Club kept the $50, he would have had to stew in his own juices.

I almost forgot, it's a tournament, we keep score, that's the fucking point. I don't care if someone else scored higher than you did and recording their scores makes you feel sad, get the fuck over it, practice, get better then maybe you'll win next year.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
The $50 to file a protest is not a California thing, it's in the USA Archery rule book. I don't have a problem with it. It's $50 to file a protest and it is refunded if the ruling goes in your favor. It usually keeps out the frivolous protests.

Likewise in other competitive sports, for example IDPA and USPSA each charge $100 to file a written appeal, refunded if the decision is in your favor.
 

Please let me know if you are ever in a situation like that again, I would gladly donate you $50.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
It's a god damn stick and a string that launches another pointy stick. It's not some mystical magical device that transports you to a Zen like state coming in touch with your inner-self in a past life in a simpler existence bringing you your inner-peace.

Oh, I so hope Maya memorizes and has the opportunity to use this line next time someone makes some obnoxious Hunger Games reference (or other stupid comment) in her presence.

You know, "My daddy always says..."



-Rob

I lived there (S.D.) for a year back in '87; it wasn't so weird then. Oh ya, the "organic" recurve types...

CA is the only state where each citizen is actually better than the other. I left for a reason, lo those many years ago.