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Eight Steps to Becoming a Marshal
Mistress Alys Mackyntosh
Okay, in its most compressed form, what you need to learn to do in order to become a marshal is:
| (1) | Learn how to line marshal. This includes getting used to watching bouts while also watching the sidelines and the crowd. |
| (2) | Learn the rules. Not just be able to parrot them back, but to understand how they work together and are applied in practice. |
| (3) | Learn how to watch bouts for problems. How can you tell if a shot was good? What do you do when the fencers have a problems. |
| (4) | Learn a little bit of conflict resolution skills and the marshallate chain of command for resolving problems. |
| (5) | Learn how tournaments work and are organized. You usually don't have to learn how to be your own MoL anymore, but you should understand how a tourney is put together and what is needed in order to hold one. |
| (6) | Learn how to watch and authorization and what to look for. How can you tell if someone should be authorized? |
| (7) | Learn the principles of fencing an authorization - it's different than fencing a real bout. |
| (8) | Learn the armor and weapons standards and how to do armor and weapons inspections. |
The one thing that cannot be taught is how to have and exercise good judgment. That's the hardest part of learning how to be a marshal and the one thing that can't be quantified onto a check list.
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