To all members of the Club.
As already anticipated via email, the Summer Programme is here.
Wednesdays and Fridays club shooting will open at 4pm (if you work, you are welcome to join afterwards) while all Sundays will be club tournaments.
Ever shot an arrow before?
Big success for the annual Have-a-Go that the club held in occasion of the Start Archery Week on Sunday the 22nd of May.
Short sessions intrigued tens of participants into the tension of the bow, the shooting of some arrows and the ever-lasting attempt of hitting the gold.
Just an ordinary Sunday shooting…
Sunday’s at 10am is always the best time to gather altogether at the club, shoot some arrows, and have a pleasant time on the field. A few words, some stretch of the muscles, and we are ready to focus and train.
Start Archery Week
The Big Archery Weekend, this year rebranded “Start Archery Week” for its 10th occasion, will be your next occasion to get started in this amazing sport.
Single/Double Worcester 2022 Results
It was a morning like the others.
With a cold breeze, the mist over the marshlands near the river Dee was leaving the spot to timid rays of sun.
We woke up, and a strange feeling in our stomach was calling for something special today.
We got ready, with greater awareness than the other times, and our thoughts began to take shape. Form. The Form. That Feeling. That unique unmistakable feeling.
So the day began.
Could be… Worcester
Tournament preparation. It all starts by knowing you’ll be attending to one.
Thankfully, at Corus our coaches have scheduled an indoor handicap-adjusted league to which all members can attend.
Through this plan, we get to experience the tension of a tournament and the different possible indoor rounds.
This morning we turned up to meet the eye-catching black and white faces lined up and ready to welcome our excellent shooting.
Yes, that’s exactly right, excellent shooting – because each time you show up in front of the target and commit to the training, no matter what the score will be, the result will always be a good one.
Commit to the training,
shoot with intent,
listen to your coach.
The Worcester is a 5-arrows-end round, so a bit different than classic indoor rounds characterized by 3 arrows end.
You get to shoot the first 30 arrows on a target face and then switch target for the following 30 to the other lower/upper face.
I personally get a very distant taste of Field Archery there, but that’s about how far I would dare to go in comparing the two.
We all have ups and downs, but to me is always rewarding when you see members’ skills getting better and better.
Why rewarding? Because we are all in this (archery struggle) together.
And we saw some really excellent shooting this morning – see below .
(Great job there Gerry – Olympic Style Recurve shooting – not any fancy compound one)
My personal bright side in all of this? First Worcester, personal best. Couldn’t be any better.
See you on the line.
Angelo
Susan on the Welsh Team
Our team member, Susan Thompson has shown the club another place where women can achieve more than men. We are proud and delighted to announce she’s officially made it into the Senior Welsh Team and will represent our country at the next Commonwealth Archery Championship Europe (http://welsharcheryassociation.com/).
Susan’s shooting career has been an ever-growing one. She has started not long ago, and after achieving the Bowman Classification last year, she has been constantly improving her scores knocking out those golden targets with persistence.
We’ve asked her some questions, for you to enjoy.
Have-a-go was a great success
Many thanks to those who helped during the Have-A-Go session on Sunday.
It was a roaring success with great feedback for those that participated.
Here is some feedback:
Many thanks to you and fellow volunteers yesterday. William very much enjoyed the experience of shooting at the targets. Hopefully he may pursue Archery as time goes by, but more probably here in the Wirral. But you all certainly gave him a good taste of it. – Geoff
and
Thank you so much for a lovely morning, we all really enjoyed it. – Kate
We now have a full Beginners Course as 7 participants signed up on the back of the course and 4 parents have also signed up.
New beginners course scheduled
Edit:
This course is now full! We will post the next beginner’s course date and time in due course.
The next beginner’s course will be held at our outdoor venue at the Care and Repair Sports field in Shotton. It will be held on the 18th and 19th September.
Next Have-A-Go at capacity
Update: This have-a-go session is now full! Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest.
We will be having further have-a-go sessions in the future, so keep an eye on the website and we’ll publish them as soon as a date is confirmed.
For those unsure about wanting to join our club and take up archery but have always wanted to try shooting a bow and arrow, then this is another opportunity.
On the 22nd August during our morning shooting session we have set aside an area for non-members to have a go of shooting a recurve bow. You’ll have a dozen arrows under the instruction of either a coach or an experienced archer.
The cost is £10. During the session you’ll be able to talk to the club members and find out about this unique sport.
