IFAA & FACE-WALKING

The Committee’s thanks are due to the membership for their response to the recent questionnaire in Field Archer. Votes from thirteen archers showed a clear preference (85%) for IFAA to revert to requiring a single anchor point for its Longbow style. This is the style from which the EFAA American Flat Bow and English Longbow rules are drawn. Your Committee has acted upon your vote.

The European IFAA delegates’ meeting takes place at the end of February. EFAA will be there and a proposal has been drafted and placed on the Agenda. This will be an excellent opportunity for our representative to lobby for support in reversing the IFAA change of 2006, which deleted the obligation for this IFAA style to use a single anchor point. Equally, it will be a suitable venue to judge the level of support from other Member National Associations for the proposal - simply because a majority of IFAA members are European based.

It may not be appreciated but our proposal will need a Seconder who is present at World Council before it can even be debated at that forum. Furthermore, if the proposal is to be passed, it will need a two-thirds majority of those attending to be in favour.

So the process of democracy is slow but it does prevail and your Committee can assure you that we have listened and we are acting. Whether we will be successful on your behalf is substantially out of our control.

Richard Hardcastle