2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

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600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 15 years to get that many views.

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Wand shoot fun!

Went up to St Albans for the Abbey Bowmen wand shoot.

Now, you’re shooting a plank of wood blimin’ miles away but it’s great fun!

I was booked in as longbow but unfortunately my bow developed a small crack in it so couldn’t shoot it 😦 Luckily Denys let me share hers – so wooden arrows out of a recurve it was!

Everyone had a great time and the weather was absolutely glorious! I won gold, gav won bronze for gents longbow and brian won silver for gents barebow 🙂

My two arrows – side by side!

Gav looking proud of his ‘wand’ hit 🙂 (At the top)

Fire in the distance!

Thanks to everyone for a lovely and relaxed day 🙂

 

 

 

 

National clout archery bronze medalist 2012 :)

This weekend I took part in my first national clout competition along with 5 other members of Harlequin Bowmen (my new club) and a whole bunch of friends. Three of us from Harlequin were shooting barebow and the other three were shooting compound – also great as it meant we could submit both a barebow and a compound team too!

As it turns out I shot my second highest score ever (despite a very strange and random breeze) and came third!

Me & Denys with our bronze medals!

Great news for my friends too:

  • Michelle – 1st ladies compound
  • Denys – 3rd ladies compound
  • Jeanette – 4th ladies compound
  • Dicky – 1st gents barebow
  • Alan – 2nd gents barebow
  • Gav – 5th gents barebow (eeeek well done on your PB too!!!)
  • Mark – 9th gents barebow
  • Chris – 1st gents recurve
  • Roz – 2nd ladies longbow
  • Brian – 7th gents compound
  • Dan – 8th gents compound

Well done Piglet!!!

Not only that – both teams won!!!

Harlequeenies – compund & barebow team national clout champions 🙂

My gold and bronze medals

What a fantastic weekend xxx

YAY! Gold tassel for Clout Archery!

I did it! Got to the next level of clouting glory!

As mentioned in an earlier post, there are certain badges you can collect when submitting a certain score. I have been chasing my Gold tassel since March (to get it I needed to score between 150 – 174 points!) and i did!!!

164!!! That’s only 11 points of the last tassel (purple 175+)

Not sure why I shot so well as the weather was really windy, I hadn’t practiced since the last clout (a rather bad one) plus I was tired after a long hen weekend.

Even more awesome was that my friend Michelle (Piglet) shot a national record!!!

Piglet with a 5 clout end 🙂 Well done national record holder!!!

Very happy to claim the county record too – espicially as it’s my last shoot as a SWACer and therefore for Dorset and Wilts.

Great to have spent the day with all my lovely archery buddies xxx

Primitive Compound Class for NFAS Archery ;)

Those primitive archery enthusiasts are a rather funny bunch!  At this weekend’s Jim’s Jungle Jaunt (fantastic shoot!) Bob ‘The Legend’ Miles unveiled his latest project – His Primitive Compound!

Shame it wouldn’t actually work but it does make you wonder…

Check out the ‘cams’ 😉

Bob – looking proud with his bow, accompanied by his grandosn Luke 🙂

Champion Barebow Archer of the West!

Hazzar!

Along with finding out I came 27th in the World Indoor Barebow rankings, I won the title of Barebow Champion of the West at Dunster!
Shame I wasn’t awarded a gold GWAS badge like the other bowstyles, but at least I have the title (which wasn’t even mentioned during the presentation).

Results are here x

Dunster Week of archery starts this weekend!!!

This Saturday I’ll be setting off for 8 continuous days of archery – quite possibly in the rain and mud!

Quite excited looking at the target list (See here: http://www.gwas.org.uk/dunster.htm) as I’ll be shooting with some rather fun and marvelous peeps!

A huge mix of Target, Field and Clout with a special longbow day chucked in the middle – bring it on!!!

See you all there!!

Sam x

Wonderful achievement – no club members to share it with :(

This weekend I took part in a FITA 70 and Head 2 Head comp and as per usual I was the only participant from my club there – but luckily a few friends from other clubs were there to talk to.

The idea for the day was to shoot 6 dozen arrows at 70m which gave you your seeding. Being a barebow archer I expected to come last against all of the recurve archers – and I did (well, actually a longbow archer came below me). Despite this I managed a Bowman standard classification score and broke my county’s record by 60 points!

The next stage was to then do a Head-2-head shoot out (like in the olympics) against a higher seeded recurve archer. As you can imagine I thought I had no chance of getting through, but I somehow managed it! I knocked out a recurve archer! I then went on to the quarter finals and put up a good fight (my ‘opponent’ really had to work hard) but alas I was eventually beaten.Despite this I was immensely proud of myself (I actually came 7th 🙂 ) and extremely thankful to my friends Charlotte, Gina, Michelle, Sam, Phil and Alan who were all cheering me on. It was such a shame I had no club members to share this experience with.

I’ve been thinking long and hard about my GNAS future and feel that come this September, when it’s due for renewal, I’ll be joining another club. The club in mind are always welcoming towards me and are regularly there at shoots and freely offer their moral support and company. The added bonus would be that I can actually be part of a team too – I look forwards to wearing their T-Shirt come this autumn x