Author Archives: Rob Jones

Apr 28 2012

London 2012: Olympics

I’m not someone who gets very excited about the summer olympics.  Never been that into summer sports, other than watching rugby. Think that is due to never being fit / well enough at school to do any form of sports. Having said that I do appreciate the amount of work involved in getting to a level to compete.

I tend to  prefer the winter olympics personnally as I’m a keen skier, but I thought I would share this link as I know there are a few people who read this blog who enjoy target archery too.

The link is to a news story on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/17857734 concerning an olympic archer Amy Oliver who has just made it to the Great Britain team. Unlike me she started very young in the sport and their is a long history of archery  in her family.

Congrats to her for getting into the team and her family, also to all the other archers representing their respective countries in this years olympics.

Good Luck and hope you can shoot in the rain as we seem to be getting a lot of it at present.

Apr 26 2012

Severn Valley Yeoman Foresters shoot report

Severn Valley Yeoman Foresters
22nd of April 2012

Archers gathering at the start
SVYF club located near Droitwich, Worcester, is a bit of a drive from Leicester, but last Sunday saw us pack the car and leave in the hope of dry weather. The forecast was not looking great and memories of pulling arrows out of the swamp were resurfacing. Hopefully it would be only light showers, hopefully.

There were some 200 archers all hoping it would stay dry  which it did until the heaven opened at about 3. Fortunately it didn’t Last too long.

It was a 40 targets with a mix of 3D and paper faces, mostly 3Ds. With 3 groups setting sections of the course we wondered what it would be like, well it worked and worked well. The course flowed well with a couple of stops for grub, we generally weren’t waiting at targets for long. As for the course there was a nice mix of shots and interesting use of terrain with some larger targets close that threw your judgement. Nice to no target faces or 3Ds repeated on the course.

The course is based in woodland surrounding a swampy area so if you go in summer watch out for the midges and mosquitoes as I know I got bit. There are a few long shots but generally a good mix, with the challenge being not the distance but the judement of distance. The course makes the most of the limited height, so despite it being a mostly flat course there are a few shots that make you have to allow for height. Sorry there aren’t any photos, I was tryign to keep camera dry.

As always the SVYF provide a great shoot in short, with excellent catering (love the venison burgers).

 Sharon did well with over 600 points and getting a first place in ladies bare bow. Congratulation to fellow Black Arrow archer young Ben too who got a second place.
If anyone reading this can tell me where  a full set of the results are posted please let me know.
Apr 24 2012

Films effect on uptake of Archery

This is an interesting article by a fellow blogger Jordan Sequillion http://jordansequillion.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/hunger-games-great-for-archery/ I too have wondered what effect films might have on the sport, such as films like Hunger Games.

Shortly there will be the animated film Brave by Disney / Pixar http://www.disney.co.uk/brave/, with the main character using a bow. Will this increase the number of kids and adults wanting to try archery?

Who knows, but could be interesting.