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001 Cover_LC_v3.qxp_Archery 2011 04/12/2015 11:08 Page 1 winTER 2015 £4.95 The official magazine of Picture perfect How you saw 2015 Meet our new Advice Zone: Agincourt: Performance Recurve, compound, clubs mark Director barebow and longbow 600 years The best Christmas gift: European Archery Championship tickets on sale now. Details inside 003 Contents_LC_V5.qxp_Archery 2011 04/12/2015 11:31 Page 3 CONTENTS 02/12/2015 16:04 Page 1 3 COVER: by time Maryon Brolly Robin Picture perfect How you saw 2015 Welcome! Meet our new Advice Zone: Agincourt: Performance Recurve, compound, clubs mark Director barebow and longbow 600 years The best Christmas gift: Season’s greetings! It’s time to snuggle up with warm memories of what European Archery Championship tickets on sale now. Details inside you achieved during summer and autumn and to take full advantage of PRODUCED ON BEHALF OF everything the indoor season has to offer. ARCHERY GB BY: In this issue we hope to jog some memories with our bumper Your Pictures section. And we find out how clubs around the country commemorated the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt – plus one club’s tribute to the archers of Crecy. We also have an in-depth interview with new TRMG Ltd, 1 Forum Place, Hatfield, Herts AL10 0RN Performance Director David Tillotson, full details of Tel: 01707 273 999 a spectacular World Cup gold medal win and a www.trmg.co.uk great early bird offer on European Archery Publishing Director: Jon Fellows Championship tickets. There are also tips on how to Operations Director: prepare for the indoor season and all the latest field, Andrew Stevens clout and club news. Head of Production: Have a wonderful Christmas, a happy new Jamie Ringrose year and a successful indoor season. See you in Project Manager: Stefan Glosby the spring! Design: Linsey Cannon Senior Commercial Manager: Steve Chambers While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this Editor publication, the organisers Archery GB and the publishers TRMG cannot accept liability for any statement or error contained herein © 2015 The paper used for printing this magazine has been sourced from sustainably managed forests in accordance with the ISO 14001 and EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) standards, which are internationally recognised and externally audited integrated environmental Contents management systems. PUBLISHED FOR: Archery GB, Lilleshall National Sports 4 News 44 Performance & Conferencing Centre, Newport, Shropshire TF10 9AT 12 History 48 Experts Tel: 01952 677888 14 Field 57 Mailbag Web: www.archerygb.org Email: [email protected] 16 Clout 58 Operations See also the Directory on p80 for individual staff contact details. Juniors 20 60 Disabilities Correspondence with regard to Archery UK including mailing list queries and enquiries 26 Development 62 Membership about advertising, should be addressed to Archery GB at the address above. 32 New Products 64 Rules Copy deadline for the spring edition: 35 Foresters: Performance 67 Diary 30 January 2016 Partners Update Archery UK is the Official Magazine of Archery GB and is read by all members. While every effort is made to ensure 74 Records & accuracy, no responsibility can be accepted for 37 Euros inaccuracies, however caused. Letters, articles and features Achievements do not necessarily represent the opinion of Archery GB. 39 Cover story: Your Pictures Directory The decision whether or not to include material submitted 80 for inclusion (whether advertising or otherwise) shall be entirely at the discretion of the Editor and/or the Marketing 42 Agincourt Manager. No responsibility can be accepted for illustrations, 82 And Finally... photographs, artwork, editorial or advertising material in transmission or with the publishers or their agents, although every care will be taken to ensure safe return of items requested to be returned. © 2015 Archery GB ARCHERY UK SPRINGWINTER 2015 004-010 News LC_APP V2.qxp_Archery 2015 07/12/2015 11:39 Page 4 One of the Open Deer Park’s Community sessions field course Two years... can make all the difference! wo years ago, the future of Deer Development officer Roger Crang hedging plants on what was an inert Park Archers hung in the balance. said: “These grants are not easy to landfill site, clearing masses of dead TIt needed a new base. Now it has achieve. For example, only 16 per cent scrub and a stream and creating a field bought its own land, has a stake in of applications were successful for the archery course. It has also developed an the future and is proof of the Inspired Facilities grants. They all have inclusion section with the coaching Olympic legacy. something in common, you need a resources to support it. The club was among 148 sports track record of delivering, understand And there have been awards, projects to secure a share of £10 million the need, a clear vision of what you nominations, medals and titles for both of National Lottery funding from Sport want to deliver in the future and a the club and members. The club England’s Inspired Facilities fund. It passionate team to complete the achieved ontarget awards for individual received £70,000 and, with that, has necessary documentation.” volunteering, innovation and partnerships secured a site and planning During the last 12 months the club as well as a special commendation from permission. It also plans a 90ft covered has become a not-for-profit company the Sport and Recreation Alliance for its shooting area. limited by guarantee, a Community work in the community and developing “This is fantastic news not just for the Amateur Sports Club, renewed its the club. It is a finalist in this year’s club but for the community,” said Club ClubMark status, become a registered Gloucestershire Sports Media Awards in Chairman Stephen Howse. “The grant is Environmental Body and set up three the community club of the year category, a great boost for all our hard-working satellite clubs with over 100 members. and Phoebe Pine has been short-listed for members and will support us It has helped the environment by the Gloucestershire Media Awards continuing to develop our ground to planting 1,500 semi-mature trees and disabled performer category. l support archers of all abilities and increasing participation levels in our sport. The covered shooting canopy will allow the club to organise events A brand new home! without the worry of our unpredictable English weather.” Club members have raised thousands t’s all go for Gosport Bowmen at the towards the project and have managed moment as it takes full advantage of to secure other grants. Gloucestershire Ithe club’s brand new home at Bay Environmental Trust gave £33,000 House Community Sports Hall in towards the cost of installing drainage to Alverstoke, Hampshire. the shooting area, easing access for The club was set up in 1979 but outgrew those with disability and providing all its shooting facilities. So, when the new hall year round use. The county council’s opened, it grabbed the opportunity. Now Active Together Programme also members can shoot indoors all year provided £9,000 for a car park and its round as well as having plenty of room pilot weekly Open Community sessions outdoors for the summer season. l have proved popular. NEWS 4 ARCHERY UK WINTER 2015 004-010 News LC_APP V2.qxp_Archery 2015 07/12/2015 11:39 Page 5 5 NEWS Remembering Crecy Tournament commemorates historic victory ll eyes have been firmly focused power of the longbow en-masse. on the 600th anniversary of And longbows were a popular AAgincourt recently. But one club choice – along with Scythian horse has been remembering another bows and recurves – as 70 archers seminal battle: Crecy. gathered to take part in Chantry’s For the past seven years, Chantry event. Seniors shot at life-sized targets Bowmen of Rotherham has run the of mounted knights at 160 yards, Chantry Firbeck Crecy Tournament to men at arms at 140 yards and mark the day, in 1346, when a heavily kneeling crossbow men at 120 yards. outnumbered Edward III led England to Juniors shot at 120 and 80 yards. victory over French, Genoese and After a traditional Yorkshire lunch of Majorcan troops. fish, chips and peas (and a couple It was the first of three decisive of pies) shooting continued and successes during the Hundred Years’ ended with a flourish, a spectacular War (followed by Poitiers and Agincourt) volley of arrows at a single mounted and demonstrated the devastating knight target. l Archery in the aisles rchers love to rise to that visitors could try their hand unusual challenges – and at archery. Athat was definitely the Club Chairman Ken Billings was case when members of Thirsk also on hand with his longbow and Bowmen were asked to mark this explained to visitors about how it year’s Magna Carta celebrations was the law that medieval men had at the town’s All Saints Church. to practise archery regularly and The solution? Moving some of that they would not be charged the pews and setting up Arrows with murder if they killed someone targets in the centre aisle so during archery practice! l ARCHERY UK WINTER 2015 004-010 News LC_APP V2.qxp_Archery 2015 07/12/2015 11:40 Page 6 Conrad Dickinson Starting is all smiles! early... ine-year-old Conrad Dickinson doesn’t hang about. Almost as Nsoon as he finished his beginners’ course at Berkhamstead Bowmen he notched up his first Robin Hood. And his main ambition for the future? “Hitting the target!” Tim Dark of St Kingsmark Bowmen A first for Stuart O’Neill was sharing a target with two longbow archers when he managed to wreck one of their arrows.