{"id":749,"date":"2022-07-27T21:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/?p=749"},"modified":"2022-07-27T21:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T21:05:45","slug":"what-a-thrill-head-2-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/what-a-thrill-head-2-head\/","title":{"rendered":"What-a-thrill, Head-2-Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we watch <strong>archery competitions on the telly<\/strong>, we (nearly) always see two archers competing against each other. One shoots an arrow, and then the other replies back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-752\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-752\" src=\"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-scoreboards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-scoreboards.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-scoreboards-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-scoreboards-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-scoreboards-1024x370.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shooting a Head-2-Head down in Corus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They alternate, they shoot 3 arrows each, and then they call the scores.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s called a Head-2-Head, and it&#8217;s a fundamental part of the practice, in becoming comfortable during a competition.<\/p>\n<p>We thought about calling the BBC and WorldArchery down at the club&#8230;<!--more-->But then in the end, a simple couple of scoreboards turned out to do the job. Less faff, flipping numbers (hey, I can say that, it&#8217;s not swearing!!!) and after all, who wants to get on television?<\/p>\n<p>For a standard H2H, the rules start very very easy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>you don&#8217;t have much time to shoot<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>it&#8217;s all pressure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>loads, literally, loads loads loads of fun<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you then want to know a bit more, generally this is how it works for outdoors&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>Styles and distances<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Recuve shoot an Olympic round (122cm at 70mt)<\/li>\n<li>Barebow shoot an Barebow match (122cm at 50mt)<\/li>\n<li>Compound shoot an Compound match (80cm 6 zones at 50mt)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How-to<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>You shoot a maximum of 5 ends<\/li>\n<li>You shoot a total of 3 arrows (ideally, alternating) per end<\/li>\n<li>You have only 20 seconds to shoot an arrow<\/li>\n<li>Your 20 seconds starts when the other archer has shot him\/her arrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Winning<\/h4>\n<p>Compound here, scores slightly differently. While Recurve and Barebow play a &#8220;sets&#8221; game, where you try to win 3 out of 5 sets, compound run on the total scored after 5 ends.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recurve &amp; Barebow: at each round, the best score gets 2 points, 1 point each for a draw &#8211; the first who gets to 6 or 7 wins<\/li>\n<li>Compound: who scores the most after 5 ends, wins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In case of a tie<\/strong>: 1 arrow shoot off decides the winner &#8211; who scores the most, or in case of same score, the closest arrow to the center wins.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-753\" style=\"width: 1217px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-results.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1217\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-results.jpg 1217w, https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-results-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-results-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/archery-head-to-head-results-1024x543.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Head to Head final results &#8211; compound match (yet, archers working on their technique&#8230;)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;and so we played the game. It was fun, definitely (at least for me, putting aside the joy of shooting to act as a Director of Shooting).<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t thank enough the volunteers that worked their way through the timed experience.<\/p>\n<p>So you know how it works now,<strong> the scoreboards are at the club and you just need to practice<\/strong>.<br \/>\nPractice, practice and little bit more of practice.<\/p>\n<p>Wanna see some real examples?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barebow match<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_S2GnIlvDPY&amp;ab_channel=USAArchery\">The most bizarre John Demmer the III (a myth)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Compound match<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QkRYOzgvbVI&amp;ab_channel=WorldArchery\">Our nation pride and glory Ella Gibson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Olympic Round (recurve)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F16crakSDC8&amp;ab_channel=WorldArchery\">The British rising star Penny Healey (17 years old)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, there is nothing more elegant and beautiful on this planet than a properly executed form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archerygb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Proc0701ProcedureforArcheryGBHeadtoHeadEvents-20370.pdf\">Full H2H Rules here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>See you on the line,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Angelo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we watch archery competitions on the telly, we (nearly) always see two archers competing against each other. One shoots an arrow, and then the other replies back. They alternate, they shoot 3 arrows each, and then they call the scores. Well, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s called a Head-2-Head, and it&#8217;s a fundamental part of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/what-a-thrill-head-2-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What-a-thrill, Head-2-Head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-tournaments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxarch.co.uk\/corus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}