Club meeting and photo shoot

Severn Valley Team photo

Severn Valley Team photo

Last week saw our clubs annual general meeting where the organising committee feedbacks to members and members have an opportunity to pose questions and raise concerns, elections taking place etc. If you are a member of all club I think it is important to attend these meetings to hear the discussions.

It also gives you the opportunity to raise questions and understand the work that goes on behind the scene.

Like last year the event was well attended with over 60 club members making the effort to attend.

The meeting also provided the opportunity for a photo session. As some readers will know at last year’s NFAS national championships the Severn Valley Yeoman Foresters club won a few trophies and this meeting provided the perfect opportunity for team members group photo.

So below is the bare bow team photo.

Bare Bow Team

Bare Bow Team

The other photo is of the 3 team trophies, the instinctive, bare bow and longbow with corresponding team members. Well done to all involved.

Thanks for reading.

bad archery über alles

An excellent commentary on this video on how bows are used in films. In this case very badly. Made me smile and laugh lots. Thanks for posting.

takotsubo's avatarThe Infinite Curve - an archery blog

A man after my own heart. Nikolas Lloyd on YouTube has produced an entire video detailing the bad archery, terrible combat strategies, and nitpicky errors in the 2003 miniseries Helen Of Troy. Regular readers of The Infinite Curve will note that I have frequently picked up on ‘bad archery’ in the media, e.g. here, here, and here.

Coupla points: the reason why ‘stage’ bows do that pinging, doingy release is because the string is often a rubber band, which is why the limbs barely move. The reason why they are so low-powered is so as not to kill anybody on the set! Yes, they are hoping the audience won’t know/notice. Also, you don’t necessarily need three fletchings to stabilise an arrow, it’s just that three work very well. And bows can creak; have heard longbows creak on the line and my older wooden recurve limbs do the…

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