DCAS Postals
Updates from the DCAS Postals can now be found on the Competitions page within the Members Area
Monthly archives: February 2014
Bow set up workshop
Malcolm will be facilitating an evening of coaching relating to bow set up on Saturday the 22nd of February at 7pm. This will replace the normal club shoot for that evening. Please ensure you bring your bow and any tools you have as this will be a participation session covering end to end set up. More sessions will be planned in due course.
Juniors Club Sessions
Additional Club Sessions will commence on Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings for Junior members only from the end of February. The Wednesday sessions will run from 5pm until 7pm , and the Saturday morning sessions from 9am until 11am. Please contact Will or Steve Procter for any additional details. We are currently also adding to a Juniors page on this site, please let Nik Langdon know of anything you’d like to see on it.
The first sessions will be Wednesday the 26th of February and Saturday the 1st of March.
Poets Session – Friday afternoons 2pm-4pm
The first Friday afternoon session will be held this Friday the 14th of February at the indoor unit. This is planned to be a slower paced session, allowing archers to focus on equipment tuning and form and work at differing distances, rather than a purely scoring based meeting.
Plymouth University 1st Charity Portsmouth – 23rd of March
Dear All,
I am from the Plymouth University Archery Club, and this year we have been able to organise a shoot to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Whilst I appreciate it is short notice, I would be very grateful if you could support our shoot and circulate our entry form to our members and archery family and friends.
Many thanks,
Kayleigh Bunker
Captain
European Archery Festival
Brixham Archers compete in the European Archery Festival 2014.
The largest target archery event ever to take place in Britain was recently held at the International Centre in Telford.
Over 860 archers from 42 nations attended this first event of this size.
International, Olympic and world event archers were to be soon shooting alongside grass roots club archers in this huge centre.
The format of the competition was to have several “Qualifying” and “Seeding” rounds of 60 arrows shot at small targets at 18 meters distance. Then the seeded archer went forward into Head to Head knockout rounds.
This arrangement saw ordinary club archers mixing and shooting against the top internationals – perhaps even on the same target. There were several opportunities to shoot over the three day event.
Three members of Brixham Archers booked their places a few months ago.
Malcolm Grant – shooting a “Compound bow”, Mark O’Halloran – shooting a “Recurve bow” and 16 years old Olivia Bevan – shooting in the junior “Recurve bow” class.
The enormity of the event seemed to effect the nerves of both Malcolm and Mark, who both shot slightly below their average capabilities.
However, the task of retaining the honour of Brixham Archers went to young up and coming Brixham Archer, Olivia.
In the final days’ event on the Sunday Olivia shot superbly on the new and novel very small target.
Shooting five sets of three arrows (1 arrow in each of the three rings) with scoring zones of 11,10, 9, 8 points, Olivia scored a total of 141 points. This was enough to take Olivia to third place in that particular event. Olivia was more than thrilled to be awarded a £350 set of arrows!
Malcolm and Mark scored 139 and 140 respectively in their similar rounds.
Brixham Archers are often running beginners archery sessions. Anyone interested in attending a course should contact the club’s beginners course booking secretary -Amanda Allan on 01803 552673 or through the club’s web site:
www.brixhamarchers.co.uk