Olympics 2012 Archery at Lords
I'm going to see if I can make it to one of these events, and if I can't make a final, I'm sure the preliminary competitions will be almost as good (and hopefully I can record the finals to watch later anyway).
So, here are some useful links for you:
Main Olympics Archery page
http://www.london2012.com/archery/
Competition Schedule
http://www.tickets.london2012.com/schedule.html
where you can download the schedule pdf - fortunately, Archery is first on the list!
Tickets go on sale at 11am on 17th May 2012
http://www.tickets.london2012.com/timeline.html
scroll down to find archery under the date
How about an Olympics 2012 Pictogram badge? I've just ordered mine:
Click here (official site)
Or visit the official Olympics 2012 shop:
http://shop.london2012.com/
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Sunday, 6 May 2012
The Selby League - Archery
The Selby League - Archery
Every year for the outdoor season, clubs are invited to submit their best scores to the Selby League - like a football league competition for archery clubs.
For compound, recurve and barebow, The shoot is a Short Metric, which is 3 dozen arrows at 50 metres on an 80cm target (10 zone scoring) and a further 36 arrows on the same size target at 30 metres. It's a longbow shoot as well, but they do 4 dozen - 2 dozen (at 80 yards and 60 yards respectively - I think!). Maximum possible score is 720.
The top 3 scores for both (longbow and the rest) are sent off to the league as a total score.
It's a bit difficult finding out much information about this league, so I do need to ask a club member to be sure I have got this right, but it was a good shoot this afternoon, my first and I scored a total of 314. Bearing in mind that I've just changed my string (from 18 to 16 strand) and haven't shot these distances before, then it's a start - and I will do better next time when I hope it won't be so blooming cold.
Many of us were dressed up in 4 or 5 layers of clothing for much of the afternoon - I was pleasantly warm after just a couple of ends.
June 2012 Update - my latest score is 342 (with not-so-good arrows). And it was much warmer!
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Every year for the outdoor season, clubs are invited to submit their best scores to the Selby League - like a football league competition for archery clubs.
For compound, recurve and barebow, The shoot is a Short Metric, which is 3 dozen arrows at 50 metres on an 80cm target (10 zone scoring) and a further 36 arrows on the same size target at 30 metres. It's a longbow shoot as well, but they do 4 dozen - 2 dozen (at 80 yards and 60 yards respectively - I think!). Maximum possible score is 720.
The top 3 scores for both (longbow and the rest) are sent off to the league as a total score.
It's a bit difficult finding out much information about this league, so I do need to ask a club member to be sure I have got this right, but it was a good shoot this afternoon, my first and I scored a total of 314. Bearing in mind that I've just changed my string (from 18 to 16 strand) and haven't shot these distances before, then it's a start - and I will do better next time when I hope it won't be so blooming cold.
Many of us were dressed up in 4 or 5 layers of clothing for much of the afternoon - I was pleasantly warm after just a couple of ends.
June 2012 Update - my latest score is 342 (with not-so-good arrows). And it was much warmer!
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Changes to this blog
I have just made a change and moved what was the main/home page to it's own section now called Links - local and beyond.
This means that I can now make this front page more dynamic and hopefully more interesting.
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NEW LINK - - - NEW LINK - - - NEW LINK - - -
Check out Aim Archery - the south coast's newest archery shop! Only 18.5 miles from Firle field.
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Next up, let me announce the Newhaven Archery Club 2012 Open Day - Saturday 21st April from 10am to 4pm.
Directions may be found in the NAC website - click here (It's a very small private road.)
Hopefully it won't rain, but we only cancel if it's really pouring down. This is the build-up to our next Beginners Course which for this year is being run over 2 consecutive weekends - 19th & 20th May and 26th & 27th all 2-5pm.
More details may be found on the NAC website and by contacting the Club Secretary - newhaven_archery@yahoo.co.uk.
I'll be there at the Open Day and the training, so do come and find me.
Finally, if you are a club member, even though not officially started, some of us are going to the field evenings and weekends. I like to go Tuesday and Friday evenings, and if I know someone else will be there, I go Saturday or Sunday for a couple of hours as well. I try to make the most of the weather, but as you know, we may not shoot alone.
New members - start building up your scores
This means that I can now make this front page more dynamic and hopefully more interesting.
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NEW LINK - - - NEW LINK - - - NEW LINK - - -
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Next up, let me announce the Newhaven Archery Club 2012 Open Day - Saturday 21st April from 10am to 4pm.
Directions may be found in the NAC website - click here (It's a very small private road.)
Hopefully it won't rain, but we only cancel if it's really pouring down. This is the build-up to our next Beginners Course which for this year is being run over 2 consecutive weekends - 19th & 20th May and 26th & 27th all 2-5pm.
More details may be found on the NAC website and by contacting the Club Secretary - newhaven_archery@yahoo.co.uk.
I'll be there at the Open Day and the training, so do come and find me.
Finally, if you are a club member, even though not officially started, some of us are going to the field evenings and weekends. I like to go Tuesday and Friday evenings, and if I know someone else will be there, I go Saturday or Sunday for a couple of hours as well. I try to make the most of the weather, but as you know, we may not shoot alone.
New members - start building up your scores
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Archery Links To Other SItes
I have set this up as a first stop for anyone who wants to find something about Archery. It's mainly UK, but there may be other non-UK links here too if I think they are useful. I've also popped in a couple of 2012 Olympics links.
I am by no means an expert archer. I started in 2010 and decided to concentrate on barebow rather than recurve or compound. I belong to the Newhaven Archery Club, which is based not too far from Brighton, East Sussex, UK. We have an active membership with summer spent at our field near Firle and winter indoors at Tideway school. Both are great fun - with a great bunch of people.
Hope you find this blog useful. (I do lots of other things online, so have included some of those links - on the right - which may pique your interest!)
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I am by no means an expert archer. I started in 2010 and decided to concentrate on barebow rather than recurve or compound. I belong to the Newhaven Archery Club, which is based not too far from Brighton, East Sussex, UK. We have an active membership with summer spent at our field near Firle and winter indoors at Tideway school. Both are great fun - with a great bunch of people.
Hope you find this blog useful. (I do lots of other things online, so have included some of those links - on the right - which may pique your interest!)
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