Issue 516 - May/June 2013
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Cover pic: Cheree Kinnear shoots at the Junior Team Tournament in Auckland. Photograph Bert Bourgeois. 3 From the Editor
It’s been one of those times when everything seems to Despite the good weather and horrible weather, archers have start crushing down around you. dragged themselves out of bed and pushed on through, enjoying themselves and the company of other archers even with the cold. Work is busy, archery life is busy, life itself is busy and your parents want you to have dinner with them. You don’t have time to shoot This issue we’ve got updates from quaky Christchurch, sunny in the new range you spent two weekends putting up in your Mountain Green, the up and down weather of Tauranga and garage, and every kid you know hasn’t come to the range in weeks windy Wellington. We’ve got your coverage of the Shanghai World because they’ve been studying for exams. And then you hold an Cup and Antalya World Cup, as well as tips on how to practise event and it rains so hard you have to cancel. safely at home, and how to bring your A-Game to the Indoor Nationals in a few months. Well, the good news is that times like this pass. It’s like the rush for the magazine. Suddenly articles and pictures come flying at you We get our experts to answer your questions about stabilisers and en masse, and you have to sit down and spend two weeks sorting give you tips about your stance, as well as delving into the rich them out and placing them on the page so that they make sense. history and mythology of Greece in order to resolve an argument Then, when it’s finished, you send if off to the printer, and it comes between friends. back a few days later in paper form so you can madly pack it up The nice thing about all this is I know that next week it’ll be and send it out. Then you can take a breather! Maybe get some calm and quiet... and then build up again! Time for more archery in… shooting. I’m not the only one who’s been busy. Clubs around the country Happy reading, have been putting on tournaments, giving their shooters a chance to claim some pins (congratulations Stephen Florence on getting Caro your purple star!) and some qualification scores (see page 14).
Do you know who the famous Greek archers were? Apollo twelve axes may marry her. None of the suitors The god of the sun in Greek mythology (as well as many other can string it except for things). He was the Greek god of archery. At 4 days old he begged Odysseus, who also shoots Hephaestus for a bow and arrows to protect his mother and slew the arrow and wins the a dragon. He helped Paris slay Achilles with an arrow. His symbol contest, and then he was the bow and arrow. slaughters all the suitors Artemis and is re-united with his wife. The goddess of the hunt and protector of young women and children. She was the twin sister of Apollo. She had a golden bow Orion and arrows. He was a giant huntsman in Greek mythology who was the Atalanta hunting companion of Artemis. Orion was killed and was raised to the stars with his dog Sirius, hence the two constellations (Orion She was a princess of Arcadia who was abandoned at birth, saved and Sirius). by Artemis and raised by hunters. She was very good at archery. Paris Eros The son of Priam, King of Troy. He eloped with Helen of Sparta, The god of love (desire). He is always portrayed with a bow and starting the Trojan War. Homer’s Iliad portrays him as cowardly, arrows which in popular culture, he shot at people to make them including his preference for the bow and arrow (he does not fall in love. follow the “code of honour” that other heroes in the Iliad do). Paris Heracles (Hercules) shoots Achilles in the ankle, causing his death. The greatest of all the Greek heroes. He had a powerful bow Philoctetes that only he could draw back, and a set of arrows that he had He was a hero of Thessaly. When Heracles died, he was given poisoned with the blood of the Hydra that he killed. One of his Heracles’ bow and arrows. Philoctetes missed most of the Trojan twelve tasks was to kill the Stymphalian birds (man-eating birds war due to a snake bite, but a prophecy said the Greeks would not with metallic feathers) and he shot them all out of the sky with his win unless they had the bow of Heracles. The Greeks fetched him arrows. back and Philoctetes killed Paris with an arrow. Odysseus Teucer In Homer’s Odyssey, when Odysseus returns home after ten He was a great archer of the Trojan war, who stood behind his years travelling, his wife (Penelope) is fending off suitors who brother’s shield (Ajax the great) and shot. The gods tried to stop think Odysseus is dead. Penelope challenges them to a contest: him from fighting: Apollo moved his arrows so he did not kill whoever can string Odysseus’ bow and shot an arrow through Hector, and Zeus broke his bow - but he continued to fight.
4 Photo: A mosaic found in Spain of Heracles shooting down the Stymphalian birds. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In This Issue
From the Editor 4 NZ Archer Online: In This Issue 5 News Update 6 the follow-up A President’s Perspective 7 After positive feedback about an online version of the magazine, the Board of Archery NZ Your Athletes Convenor 8 spoke at length with me about moving towards taking the magazine online. Nationals 2014 8 In order to move towards this, they’ve What’s Happening in Christchurch? 9 requested a sample copy so that we can show you just what we can do with an online magazine, and how much you’re going to Shanghai Surprises 10 be getting! Everyone is entitled to view this sample at the web address below. Antalya Shines in the Sun 11 Our proposal for an online magazine is going Cold Hands and Warm Competition 12 to be fleshed out in more detail in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled for updates. Rosebowl 2013 13 Don’t worry, we’re not taking away your printed copy - we’ll explain more in the next issue. Chasing Qualification Scores 14 Hope you enjoy it! Mindfulness 15 Caro Zombies! Archery! 16 Stabilisers: what are they for anyway? 18 Practising at Home 20 Develop your Stance 21 Archery and the Greeks 22 JAMA Update 23 Upcoming Events 24 Archer Ranking 25 Club Directory 26 Judges Directory 27
http://www.archerynz.co.nz/archery-nz/ about/archery-in-nz-2.html 5 News Update
National Indoor Championships 2013 Tournament and Club Score Sheet Downloads WOW was the word used when all the entries started coming in, ANZ has put together some generic score sheets for use in within 24 hours the line was full (going by the number of archers (84) tournaments and club shoots. It is highly recommended to use these in 2012) and a waiting list was made until we could work out what score sheets for all tournaments so that archers become used to a to do. Many emails and phones calls later, we can now spread across standard scoring format. This will help tournament organisers and to the B&M Centre, which means our line will now take 120 archers. assist in minimising errors. Thank you to everyone for your patience while we got this all sorted out. The MAC is looking forward to seeing you all on the 24th &25th Most of the regular rounds that are shot have been included, as well August. as a generic score sheet that may be useful for various club shoots, all can be printed on an A4 page. They are available in Microsoft Excel Patsy Vercoe format so that clubs may add logos, tournament names and dates. Manawatu Archery Club Score sheets can be downloaded from the ANZ Downloads page. For any specific requests, please contact the Athlete’s Convenor.
New website for World Archery After many months of work, World Archery has launched a new web Change of Address site. It is very different and should be easier to navigate than the previous one. Diane Hamilton is advising that after living 46 years at the same address, she has now moved. Her new address details are:- Try it out on http://www.worldarchery.org/ 168 B Miromiro Road Normandale Youth World Championships Team Selected Lower Hutt Archery New Zealand is delighted to announce the team to compete in the World Archery Youth World Championships in Wuxi, China in October 2013. WAA Committee Changes • Cadet Women’s Compound elizabeth Randle Please note the following committee member changes effective • Cadet Men’s Compound Marcus Barclay immediate. I have included a contact email address as well. President: Irving Campbell - [email protected] We congratulate these two archers and wish them a pleasant and Secretary: Sean White – [email protected] successful tournament. If you have any questions please contact me. The manager of the team is Marianne Grant and assistant manager Kathy Barclay. Sean White We thank these two officials for volunteering for these roles and hope they have an enjoyable period of duty. Carole A. Hicks National Secretary
PLEASE HELP! We are the JAMA Robin Hood and Junior Maid Marion trophies and once upon a time we each had a partner … but they are now lost, alone out there somewhere. The trophy steward would love to be able to get them back and pass them onto the current JAMA Maid Marion and Junior Robin Hood winners. There is proof that they once existed in the form of photos but tracking them down is proving difficult. If you are a past winner could you please check that you do not still have these trophies because it is not fair on the current juniors attending the Nationals, also a lot of history is lost. Or if you know someone who may have won them as a junior but has left archery could you please check with them. There will be no recriminations … we will just be happy to have them back. You can contact Kerry at [email protected] if you know of their whereabouts. Thanks JAMA Robin Hood and Junior Maid Marion trophies
6 Archery NZ A President’s Perspective
After 6 months in the role and having just completed • Supports Junior Archers with the provision of a separate ‘JAMA’ a review of options for an alternative fee structure it competition classes and structure. became apparent that we needed to take stock of what • JAMA age classes the association provides to its members and where the • JAMA Postals value is to our community of athletes and supporters. • Archery in Schools • Auckland District Schools Archery League • Trans Tasman Archery Challenge competition • JAMA postal certificates, Archery in Schools Our mission statement: • certificates • JAMA pins, badges and trophies “Archery enables and • Provides a ‘fair for all’ selection process for International Tournaments and NZ representation. celebrates a community • Provides a process for selection and appointment of team officials to support New Zealand representative teams at of people of all ages and international events. • Provides and maintains the equipment for the National abilities to become confident, Championships, as well as making sure the Championships are have attitude and strive for held each year. • Provides and administers an archer ranking list so athletes can excellence.” see their relative performance against their peers. • Provides, administers and maintains a set of trophies for award to archers and supplies medals for the national outdoor, indoor and JAMA NI and SI tournaments each year and the The mission statement outlines our organisation’s goal and Trans-Tasman competition when held in New Zealand every 4 everything we do should be measured in its ability to deliver years. against this. This is not just about achieving in archery. It covers all • Recognises and rewards the contribution of archers and team the activities and behaviours of athletes and supporting groups officials representing NZ at international competition level together. with the award of individual recognition trophies. Archery NZ provides the requirements of being an incorporated • Provides and administers a badges and pins award system society and so provides the benefits and protections of for Archery NZ and World Archery endorsed rounds so that incorporated societies to all its members. Just a few of those are athletes have progressive goals to strive for. that the society is a separate legal entity, it can own property and enter into contracts, and there is no debt liability for individuals. Archery NZ is a non-profit and volunteer based organisation. As a society, Archery NZ strives to meet the mission statement Its relatively small size means that it relies heavily on the at all times, which includes having a strategic plan, budgets, a contributions of time and effort of its members. There are functioning board of members and systems that account for many thousands of hours of volunteer time, and other freely performance at all levels, including administration. given services that the association benefits from each year. My “Effective national sport organisations (NSOs) are key partners for conservative estimate is that for each $1.00 paid in membership Sport NZ in helping us achieve our aims of making New Zealand fees the return to the association and its members in donated ‘the world’s most active nation’ and having teams and athletes time and services is at least $10.00 or about a 10:1 return on an winning consistently on the world stage”. individual’s membership fees. Our organisation, I’ve found, has some amazing benefits that I’d For me the most important benefit I get from being a member like to share with you, as you may not be aware of many of them: is the friendships and support I get from everyone I come into contact with. Archers are some of the nicest people I get to meet. • Supports and represents the sport of archery to other national This is our association and it’s the people in it and what they do and international sporting organisations (World Archery, that make it what it is. Oceana Archery Federation, NZOC and Sport NZ) • Sources and co-ordinates funding applications to sponsor Mike Ashburn organisations. Sport NZ and NZ Community Trust are some President, Archery NZ recent ones. In 2012 around 40 % of our revenue was generated through external funding sources. • Provides and website and the NZ Archer magazine for the benefit of its members • Registers qualifying tournaments with World Archery • Provides and administers a coaching development programme to ensure members have access to world class and up to date coaching systems for the development of coaches and athletes (currently under development).
7 Your Athletes Convenor Let me introduce myself. missed the mark, but I kept trying and was very pleased when I eventually hit the ‘yellow’. I was soon corrected on this outbust and I’m a Fitter/Turner by trade, Toolmaker, CAD/CAM engineer and told to say ‘Gold’! Hydraulic technician. During my career, I was fortunate enough to work in Formula 1 for seventeen years, starting with Ferrari in 1987 After we landed here, it took about 8 weeks to find the local club and working my way to the back of the grid with Benetton and in Tauranga. It was about a year later that I entered my first major Renault (2004). tournament; it was a Merit Star in Rotorua 2006 and I absolutely loved it. I progressed from there and made the Archery NZ national team. In January 2005 I landed in New Zealand with my family after quitting Formula 1. We needed a new challege and it proved to be I’m a little older now, so I move up to the Masters 50+ division. And so, dragging them from their family and friends halfway around the even though I’m not shooting the scores one would like, I enjoy world, but it was worth it. shooting arrows first, and scores can come second. My background is engineering. Whilst working in Formula 1, a Some figures to those who are wondering, my personal best scores colleague decided to get married and as a consequence the lads for Fita 90M: 1230, and Fita 70M: 629. weekend was planned with paintball and quad bike riding. As it Looking forward to seeing you all at tournaments, turned out there were eighteen people and only six quads. I thought it going to be boring waiting for my turn, but it turned out to be Trevor Kennerson anything but! Athletes Convenor The fill in for the waiting time was A‘ rchery’ in a barn across the yard. I was having so much fun I barely noticed how long I was there and it was hard to drag me away to go on the quad bike. From that point on I was hooked. I found out where the local archery club (Windrush Bowmen) was and found they shot strange bows! No sights, no stabilisers, this I had not seen in my research about being an Archer. I saw Olympic archers proudly displaying their medals, and decided that’s what I wanted to do. They soon sorted me with a club bow and a straw boss and I was on my way. At 15 metres my first few arrows Nationals 2014 Why did we decide to do it again in Whitianga? Sometimes I think that this is a good here, then many of the businesses, groups and people will back you and lend a hand question, that OMG moment! somehow. As many of you know the Mercury Bay One of the comments that sticks in my mind Archery Club is a very small club in the is that having Nationals here in Whitianga scheme of things within the archery world. still felt like they got a holiday. Being able We would be the first to admit it was a big to have a swim in the sea after shooting, ask to host two international tournaments play mini golf, relax and do all those other within the space of two months, but we things that draw people to our area over also took a lot of pride in what we managed summer was a huge bonus. to do; and that is to bring the archery community together. Our view is that our We have adopted the Whitianga Waterways National Tournaments belong to all the Arena as our Archery Event home now and archers in New Zealand and not just the will be back there in 2014. We will have club that chooses to put its hand up to host most of the same admin team on board, these events, and thus it is the efforts of and again the challenge of the Thames other clubs members as well. Valley Deer Stalkers Venue for the field championships. We hope to have a few For Dennis and I, having competed at surprises up our sleeves for you and some tournaments and Nationals before, we exciting announcements are pending as were a little more “Eyes wide open” but our club members we still we are just sorting some details first and some we will keep to shooting at club level and had no idea where this was going. In surprise you on the day. saying that though, at our emergency meeting (that took place while we were cleaning the Town Hall the morning after the For those that are coming here for the first time in 2014 – wear Awards Dinner) when we asked the question, “Do we do this again boots for the field shoots, bring your togs/bathers/swimsuit, next year?” the resounding “Hell Yeah!” left no doubt in our minds, sunscreen, practice in the wind (just in case), book your apart from the question of how do we top this year! accommodation early, and we’d love for you to stay a couple to a few extra days if you can to enjoy some of the other things we We love living in Whitianga. Even though small, living across have to offer here. from the ocean is amazing. Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Rotorua are all about 2.5 hours drive away, so we can get a dose of Karen Moffatt-McLeod shopping, culture, friends, family and archery on a regular basis. Mercury Bay Archery Club The other great thing about this small seaside community is that if you do something to benefit this town by bringing people
8 What’s Happening in Christchurch?
No doubt people are sick and tired of hearing about the athletes and their supporters. Our club had to address those matters aftermath of the earthquake, which is understandable. I and after meetings with the athletic club put additional safety precautions in place. can assure that people in Christchurch feel the same way, however not only do we hear and feel it, we have to live During this difficult time the club held major events and continued with our regular coaching and beginner’s courses which in turn it day by day with 14,000 aftershocks and rising. A couple increased our membership. Participation in the National Postal of weeks ago we had a shallow 4.2 magnitude and it League, District Postal League and major competition helped us to didn’t make the news. Roadworks to repair underground try and keep some normality in our summer shooting programme. reticulation services are in full swing along with detours The photograph was taken at Christmas time inside our clubrooms, that change day by day, along with speed restrictions a special time when we all sat down for brunch with fellow archers, (30km/h) and old road surfaces that go up and down like family and friends. Just as well it’s once a year as we eat a real kiwi breakfast, eggs, bacon, hash browns, tomatoes, sausages etc… you a trip on the ocean. get the general idea. Many thanks to those of you who supported the Christchurch Archery Our project to extend the clubrooms to include an indoor range had Club with your kind words of support and those who attended our to be put on hold. Dealing with the local body and other agencies major events. I can assure you it’s appreciated. takes rather a long time to get any response, so meanwhile we keep Our concrete block club rooms, being in the Eastern suburbs, on talking and chipping away. Who knows we might just wear them received some damage by way of cracks in the walls, some showing down? day light through. The concrete floor has a few bumps and hollows, As a member of the Christchurch Archery Club for 40 years, the last but hey, nothing to stop the club from operating. We did have a close couple of years have brought to the fore camaraderie of members shave when we found out purely by chance we were to lose our which I am proud to be a part of, winners in my book. shooting range to temporary housing for those people who lost their homes in the Eastern area. Archery brought these people together and their love of the sport. We are not against temporary housing, but eh! Not our shooting Dave Henshaw (Toxophilite) range. The club did their homework and submitted a counter Christchurch Archery Club proposal to the government and local council who reversed their decision. If this had gone ahead we would not be able to shoot and possibly the club may have closed down. Canterbury Athletics had their venue at QEII stadium which was also damaged. They have now moved adjacent to our range which created some serious safety issues, due to the large number of
9 Shanghai Surprises World Cup Stage One May 2013 Korea and India surprise opponents At the first Archery World Cup for the The spectacular shores of the Huangpu River 2013 season, Shaun Teasdale competed in downtown Shanghai hosted the compound as our sole NZ representative in Shanghai, team medal matches. There were some great China. highlights in the compound team matches during this stage of the World Cup, including a Shaun has regularly attended this event and was a near-perfect round from USA as they defeated member of the Men’s Compound team, with Steve Italy for the gold medal. Braden Gellenthien Clifton and Tony Waddick, who won the team’s was absolutely perfect with twelve 10s during silver medal in 2009. He was also the gold medal the match. The compound men’s bronze medal winner in the Men’s Compound in 2010. match featured Korea and Australia, both shooting for their firstW orld Cup team medal, On Tuesday morning the individual qualification but in the end it was Korea’s by a point. 50m compound round was shot, with the eliminations for the 1/24 held in the afternoon. In In the women’s event, Korea challenged the a field of 53 compound archers from 22 countries, strong USA for the gold medal. After a shaky start Shaun shot a very good score of 695 at 50m to be from USA, shooting three 8’s, Korea dominated, ranked 23rd overall. their lead increasing throughout the match. They won the final 231-216. The top score of 710 was shot by Martin Damsbo from Denmark, followed by Adam Ravenscroft The bronze medal final was a rematch of last (GBR) also on 710, Braden Gellenthien (USA) 709, year, India against Italy. This time, however, Morton Boe (Norway) 708, and Reo Wilde (USA) India took the charge and did not give it up. The 705. bronze medal was India’s first in the compound women’s category at a World Cup. In the eliminations Shaun came up against Gerardo Alvarado (Mexico) who was ranked at 42. After a tie at 88-88 after nine arrows, Alvarado gained a 2-point advantage over the last six arrows, winning the Chinese Taipei takes Recurve title from Koreans match 146-144. Korea took the men’s recurve team gold, beating China. It was France Shaun is now looking towards competing in the World versus the Netherlands for the bronze, which went to France in the Championships in Antalya in October. end. On the women’s side, the final featured surprising Ukraine and Anne Mitchell Chinese Taipei, who dramatically upset Olympic champions Korea Vice President in the semi-final. Chinese Taipei took the gold in a composed and relaxed manner despite challenging wind conditions. Main Results In the bronze medal match, multi-time Olympic and World Cup team champions Korea left no chance to Germany. Compound Mens Team Compound Womens Team Gold USA Gold Korea Silver Italy Silver USA Bronze Korea Bronze India Australia Italy Recurve Mens Team Recurve Womens Team Gold Korea Gold Chinese Taipei Silver China Silver Ukraine Bronze France Bronze Korea Netherlands Germany Photos courtesy of World Archery Other Results
Compound Men Individual Compound Mixed Team Recurve Women Individual Gold Braden Gellenthien, USA Gold USA (Braden Gellenthien, Erika Jones) Gold YUN Ok-Hee, Korea Silver Martin Damsbo, Denmark Silver Korea (MIN Lihong, SEOK Ji Hyun) Silver Deepika Kumari, India Bronze Reo Wilde, USA Bronze Italy (Sergio Pagni, Marcella Tonioli) Bronze JOO Hyun-Jung, Korea Dave Cousins, USA Finland (Mikko Juutilainen, Anne Lantee) Ya-Ting Tan, Chinese Taipei Compound Women Individual Recurve Men Individual Recurve Mixed Team Gold SEOK Ji Hyun, Korea Gold OH Jin Hyek, Korea Gold USA (Brady Ellison, Khatuna Lorig) Silver Erika Jones, USA Silver JIN Jae Wang, Korea Silver India (Deepika Kumari, Jayanta Talukdar) Bronze Albina Loginova, Russian Federation Bronze Shungo Tabata, Japan Bronze Korea (CHANG Hye Jin, OH Jin Hyek) Carli Cochran, USA Khairul Anuar Mohamad, Malaysia Mexico (Aida Roman, Juan Rene Serrano) 10 Antalya Shines in the Sun World Cup Stage Two, Antalya
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While we didn’t have any athletes at Antalya, Turkey for the second stage of the World Cup 2013, the results were exciting nonetheless, with some rising stars taking out the top spots in a surprising turn of events, much like the results from Shanghai. The finals were shot on the beach at Antalya, where the warm weather gave some incredible results. The compound men’s final featured two of the hottest teams on the circuit – USA (number 1) and Denmark (ranked number 2). Denmark had lost all previous encounters with USA, including the last two Antalya finals as well as the Turin World Championships. It looked to be an uphill battle against the Americans, and Denmark trailed by three points after the first end. They recovered in the second end, before delivering 6 tens in the third end – a perfect score. USA struggled to recover and Denmark concluded the match with a strong 10-10-10 for the well- deserved gold medal. “It’s awesome, we shot pretty well and despite the difficult wind conditions we went through”, commented Stephan Hansen. For the bronze medal, France met Italy for a European battle. The wind was a factor, causing several unusual 8s on both sides. The French led by three points after one end, but the Italians came back slowly but surely. They recovered two points in the second end, and In the recurve division, China’s new star Yuanyuan Cui made an managed to tie before the last six arrows, before finally taking a small impressive debut on the World Cup circuit. In the final, she was not lead before the last three arrows. Shooting first, theF rench did the intimidated by her formidable opponent, YUN Ok Hee (KOR), who was same as the Danish and concluded with 10-10-10, giving a victory for Olympic team champion in 2008, World Championships team gold them, and the first team medal for France this year. medallist in 2009 and World Cup Final winner in 2010, and who won the Shanghai World Cup last month. The 20-year-old Chinese athlete Compound Mens Team Compound Womens Team took the lead from the first end for a victory 7-1. The bronze medal Gold Denmark Gold Colombia match featured two of Korea’s finest archers: Olympic champions KI Bo Bae and JOO Hyun Jung. After a tie at 3-3, KI took the lead and Silver USA Silver USA never looked back for a 6-4 win. Bronze France Bronze Russian Federation Italy France Recurve Mens Team Recurve Womens Team The women’s compound finals were equally exciting. The gold Gold Korea Gold Korea medal match was a duel between the United States and surprising Silver Japan Silver Japan Colombia, who upset Korea on their way to this final. Colombia Bronze China Bronze Ukraine posted high scores throughout the week, showing the progress they Turkey Russian Federation have accomplished recently as the country prepares to host its first World Cup event. Their final obstacle on the way to the gold medal Olympic champion OH Jin Hyek (KOR) added a second victory to was the American team, runner-up in Shanghai. Both teams shot very the gold medal he won last month in Shanghai. He defeated Juan well, with Colombia building a one point lead in the first end, and René Serrano (Mexico) 7-1 in the men’s final.W ith silver, the Mexican adding two more points in the second end to lead 115-112 at the Olympian claims his firstW orld Cup podium finish since taking halfway mark. The USA tried to come back but Colombia matched second place at the World Cup Final in 2007. For the bronze medal them arrow by arrow to take the win 228-226, resulting in an historic match, 24-year-old ZHANG Jianping (CHN), shooting in his firstW orld firstW orld Cup gold medal for Colombia. Cup season, took the lead from the start against London Olympic “It is a very beautiful victory before the Medellin World Cup next team champion Mauro NESPOLI (ITA), and easily won the match 6-2. month”, said Alejandra Usquiano. “We worked very hard but we must In the recurve men’s team event, Korea took the gold medal from a go on even stronger. A big thank you to our coaches who are here strong Japan, and it was China versus the home team Turkey for the with us and to those who stayed in Colombia!” bronze. While Turkey put up a good fight, it was China’s turn to shine Even more exciting was the fact that Sara Lopez of Colombia took out and they won the match and the medal. the individual compound gold medal – propelling Colombia into the In the recurve women’s team event, Korea made it a golden finale, higher ranking archery countries. taking out the top spot from Japan, echoing the results from the The women’s compound bronze medal match featured France versus men’s event. It was an eastern European finish for the bronze, with Russia. The French have been chasing a firstW orld Cup team medal Ukraine fighting against team Russia. Ukraine came out on top this since 2011, while Russia won the Ogden 2012 World Cup. In windy round, however, with the bronze medal and podium finish. conditions, France suffered two 7s in the first two ends, allowing This concludes the second stage of the World Cup. See you in July in Russia to take the lead. Both teams increased their level in the third Medellin, Colombia for the third stage! end, but Russia kept a two point advantage before the last six arrows, and won the match 224-216 and the bronze medal. Photos and article courtesy of World Archery 11 Cold Hands and Warm Competition Silver Knight / Ruscoe Shield
11 and 12 May 2013
Randwick Archery Club had the weather, everyone shot well, and honour of hosting this year’s the Mana crew had themselves Silver Knight / Ruscoe Shield Despite the cold weather, everyone sorted, as Shona bought hot tournament. The Saturday water bottles for the cold hands. started with the Silver Knight, and shot well, and the Mana crew had I thought this was a pretty good conditions were bitterly cold. A idea! Thanks Shona! strong southerly wind had rolled themselves sorted, as Shona bought into Wellington and it was raining At the end of an average day the steadily. dust settled, and it was a re-run hot water bottles for the cold hands. of last years winners: Micky Gunn A group of 22 archers turned up of Mana taking out the Silver in their best wet weather gear, I thought this was a pretty good Knight recurve division, and ready to compete. It was great myself (Corey Turner of Randwick) to see a lot of new faces turn up idea! Thanks Shona! winning the compound division. for their first crack at tournament archery. We all made them feel very welcome. Despite the cold Sunday morning brought on the Ruscoe Shield challenge, and what a contrast in days! The sun was out, there was no wind, it was pretty perfect conditions. A total of eight teams registered for the event, and some fantastic shooting was demonstrated. The competition was fierce, but some great laughs were had by everyone and new friendships made. It was a wonderful atmosphere and a pleasure to be a part of. This years winners were Mana, the team consisting of Tara Mackle, Micky Gunn and the ever-youthful Tony Eastwood. The team of Mark Fowles, Fred Davidson and Chris Johnson of Manawatu taking second, and Randwick (Corey Turner, Gustav Bam and Rob Gadd) were third. A big thank you to all at Randwick Archery Club who pitched in with the organising, catering and setting out the grounds. It made it a real successful weekend of archery. Congratulations to all our winners and it was particularly pleasing to see a lot of our new nembers getting involved in their first taste of tournament shooting! Thank you. Corey Turner
12 Rosebowl 2013 ECBOPAA Rosebowl Tournament
18 May 2013 Enjoyable day in the mud - River Glade Archers
Bright and early, 18 archers from River Glade Archers in Hamilton The East Coast Bay of Plenty Archery Association Rosebowl made their way over to Tauranga. Weather reports had been duly tournament is a team event with clubs naming teams of three archers checked and most of us came equipped with thermals, waterproofs (they can enter as many teams as they like). The teams can be made and gumboots, determined not to let the rain dampen our spirits. up of any gender and bow type, but must belong to the same club Experience ranged from too many years to count to just a few to be eligible to win the Rosebowl and Hiccup Cups. The shoot is a months. One team even had a grandmother and granddaughter Murrumbeena: 90 arrows at 37m (122cm face for recurve, 80cm face competing together, both at their first competition. There was also for compound, 60cm face for crossbow). It is 5-zone scoring. There are a family team: Team Berryman, and a highly competitive Crossbow also novice lines of 25m or 14m for those that can’t yet reach the 37m. Team. The Rosebowl gets bigger each year with a massive 45 archers (14 Tauranga Archers had done a great job organising the day, and the teams) turning up to Tauranga to represent their clubs this year. We smiling (despite the rain) Kerry Turner showed everyone where to had a wide range of shooting ability at this year’s Rosebowl - a lot of shoot. This was where the gumboots came in handy, although I was new archers right up to five archers from the last Trans-Tasman team lucky enough to have a muddy patch to stand in rather than a duck and one archer from the last Commonwealth Games, all shooting pond. Welcomes were done and photos were taken in the rain (thanks side-by-side. Three bow disciplines were represented: recurve, Marcus for holding the umbrella) and we were ready for the off. That compound and crossbow. was when the sun started to come out and I spent most of the rest of The day dawned as forecast: wet. It continued to rain while we set the day taking off layers of clothing or complaining that I was too hot. up but the moment it was time to start shooting the sun came out (You never can please an archer!) meaning that everyone had to discard all their wet, cold weather So we all shot our 90 arrows with the usual trials and tribulations. The gear they had arrived in, although keeping the gumboots on was a rain held off and the wind didn’t pick up – unusual for Tauranga, and must especially at one end of the range where the puddles were. The the target stayed at 37m! No complaints there. (A highlight for me afternoon sailed by, with everyone enjoying the shooting, company was watching Rosanne jumping in puddles, although unfortunately and relaxed atmosphere. nobody caught it on camera.) Then it was off up the hill for afternoon After the shoot it was time for afternoon tea followed by the prize- tea and presentations. The sausage rolls and sandwiches were just giving. The ECBOPAA medals for recent postals were handed out what we needed, and David Croskery did a good job of updating us followed by the Hiccup and Rosebowl Cups. The first placed team with what is going on in the region. This year we were well beaten by and Rosebowl winner this year was an all junior one - Rotorua 1, excellent shooting from Rotorua (fantastic junior Compound team) consisting of Marcus Barclay, Iori Morley and Elizabeth Randle. and Gisborne. Everyone had a great day, and the shoot provides Second place and the Hiccup cup went to Gisborne 1, made up of a really good stepping stone into competition for newer archers, Stephanie Croskery, David Croskery and Chris Underdown, and in without having to worry about World Archery dress regulations, etc. third place was Riverglade 4, made up of Duncan Liu, Scott Collett A huge thank you to ECBOPAA, Tauranga Archers, Kerry Turner and Michael Thomson. (Organiser and DOS) and everyone else who helped put on such an Compounder Marcus Barclay was the top scorer of the day with an enjoyable shoot. 806 and Duncan Liu was next and top recurve score with 802. Sarah Collett A lot of great scores were shot this year, with the winning team River Glade Archers finishing on 2398 out of a possible 2430 (so only 16 arrows out of the gold between all three archers). Well done. Thanks to all those that made the journey, especially with the wet weather forecast, it was lovely to see so many here yet again. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves. Until next time, Kerry Turner Tauranga Archers Club Captain E.C.B.O.P.A.A. Vice President
13 Chasing Qualification Scores Mountain Green
Queen’s Birthday Weekend 2013
Apart from the North Island JAMA Championships, there is not much else on the calendar for Juniors, so as a club, Mountain Green thought we would take a small step to fix that. The aim of the tournament was two-fold. Firstly, to allow new members to the sport an opportunity to dip their toes into the competition side of Archery. After all, they turn up every weekend to practice, so this was a good opportunity to gauge how they were progressing. Secondly, for the more experienced archery this was another chance to gain those much needed Trans-Tasman qualifying scores (1150 for Recurve, 1300 for Compound). We thought that the Queen’s Birthday weekend was the perfect time to host such a tournament. So how did the weekend unfold? Good weather is always a key factor in the success of an archery tournament. And in that department we were very lucky. While still a little on the chilly side, with no wind we experienced two days of almost perfect shooting weather. When the sun did make its presence felt, it beamed down on the backs of the archers making for an even better day. The club’s band of many volunteers all chipped in to ensure the tournament went off without a hitch. These tournaments don’t happen by themselves so a big thank you to all those involved leading up to and during the event. So on to the archery itself! The tournament was well supported with archers from Mana, Manawatu, Rotorua, Gisborne, Mercury Bay, Auckland and our own bunch of misfits.W ith such good weather we were hoping for some good scores and we weren’t disappointed. In particular Hannah Hawley from the Manawatu club deserves special mention. Shooting up in the Cadet age group and chasing her first Trans-Tasman score, Hannah set the standard with a 1220 and an unofficial NZ record for the Cadet Women’s FITA round. For those Australian Cadet Women looking to be in next year’s Trans-Tasman completion – be afraid: be very afraid. Hannah was not the only archer to achieve a Trans-Tasman score – in total there were 9 archers who managed to achieve at least 1 Trans-Tasman score and in some cases they achieved 2 scores. Congratulations also to Sean Walker, Cheree Kinnear, Dean Croskery, Marcus Barclay, Elizabeth Randle, Iori Morley, Isaac Ellery and Jonty Knocker. For the not so serious there was still plenty to be happy about – for many it was their first full 2-day tournament. For others a chance to build on their previous completion scores. So all in all a very good tournament which might just become a regular on the shooting calendar.
Earl Duthie Mountain Green Archery Club President Photos courtesy of Gareth O’Neill Photography www.garethoneillphoto.photoshelter.com
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14 Mountain Green Results
Queen's Birthday JAMA Tournament Mt Green Archery Club (MTGQB13) Mt Green Archery Club, From 01-06-2013 to 02-06-2013 Recurve - Junior Men Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 90m 70m 50m 30m 90m 70m 50m 30m Total 10 X 1 1- 001C WALKER Sean AAC Auckland Archery Club 257/ 1 294/ 1 293/ 1 330/ 1 262/ 1 301/ 1 291/ 1 310/ 2 2,338 46 17 2 1- 001A TURNER Mykel TAU Tauranga Archers 183/ 2 231/ 2 174/ 2 291/ 2 146/ 3 210/ 3 175/ 3 284/ 3 1,694 17 6 3 1- 001B HARRISON Robbie MTG Mt Green Archery Club 145/ 3 173/ 3 97/ 3 276/ 3 193/ 2 223/ 2 194/ 2 312/ 1 1,613 20 6
Recurve - Junior Women Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 70m 60m 50m 30m 70m 60m 50m 30m Total 10 X 1 1- 002D KINNEAR Cheree AAC Auckland Archery Club 252/ 2 301/ 1 269/ 1 310/ 2 274/ 2 290/ 3 271/ 1 323/ 1 2,290 36 3 2 1- 003A BURGE Rachel AAC Auckland Archery Club 259/ 1 276/ 2 261/ 2 313/ 1 277/ 1 299/ 1 261/ 3 310/ 4 2,256 34 8 3 1- 002C MACKLE Tara MANA Mana Archery Club 218/ 4 267/ 3 197/ 4 289/ 3 258/ 3 291/ 2 265/ 2 312/ 3 2,097 23 6 4 1- 003B RISI Annalise ROT Rotorua Archery Club 227/ 3 230/ 4 221/ 3 286/ 4 215/ 4 247/ 4 257/ 4 320/ 2 2,003 29 8
Recurve - Cadet Men Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 70m 60m 50m 30m 70m 60m 50m 30m Total 10 X 1 1- 002A NEL Kieran MTG Mt Green Archery Club 114/ 2 135/ 2 123/ 1 230/ 2 180/ 1 173/ 1 153/ 1 222/ 1 1,330 14 4 2 1- 003C LI Michael MTG Mt Green Archery Club 202/ 1 183/ 1 111/ 2 246/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 742 4 2
Recurve - Cadet Women Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 60m 50m 40m 30m 60m 50m 40m 30m Total 10 X 1 1- 005B HAWLEY Hannah MAN Manawatu Archery Club 294/ 1 310/ 1 302/ 1 314/ 1 289/ 1 299/ 1 293/ 1 307/ 1 2,408 46 14 2 1- 005A DUTHIE Alisha MTG Mt Green Archery Club 255/ 2 274/ 2 107/ 2 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 0/ 1 636 15 4
Recurve - Intermediate Men Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 55m 45m 35m 25m 55m 45m 35m 25m Total 10 X 1 1- 007B MARTIN-ROBERTS Chayse MTG Mt Green Archery Club 263/ 1 300/ 1 289/ 1 283/ 2 237/ 2 311/ 1 282/ 1 308/ 1 2,273 48 8 2 1- 008C STORER Matthew AAC Auckland Archery Club 241/ 2 280/ 2 259/ 2 297/ 1 251/ 1 269/ 2 279/ 2 305/ 2 2,181 34 8 3 1- 006A ROY Kevin MTG Mt Green Archery Club 204/ 4 237/ 4 230/ 4 271/ 3 209/ 4 238/ 3 194/ 3 271/ 3 1,854 13 3 4 1- 007A HUDSON Samuel MTG Mt Green Archery Club 218/ 3 242/ 3 233/ 3 258/ 4 231/ 3 238/ 3 163/ 4 237/ 4 1,820 15 3 5 1- 008A DIMOCK Reuben MBAC Mercury Bay Archery Club 98/ 5 152/ 5 159/ 5 191/ 5 133/ 5 164/ 5 114/ 5 172/ 5 1,183 6 3
Recurve - Intermediate Women Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 55m 45m 35m 25m 55m 45m 35m 25m Total 10 X 1 1- 006C WASSILIEFF Victoria MAN Manawatu Archery Club 246/ 1 297/ 1 282/ 1 300/ 1 275/ 1 294/ 1 274/ 1 289/ 1 2,257 40 12
Recurve - Cub Men Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 40m 35m 30m 25m 40m 35m 30m 25m Total 10 X 1 1- 010B COOK Jacob MTG Mt Green Archery Club 195/ 1 207/ 1 135/ 1 221/ 1 208/ 1 225/ 3 146/ 2 197/ 1 1,534 8 1 2 1- 009C GLEAVE Jamie MTG Mt Green Archery Club 152/ 3 180/ 2 112/ 2 159/ 2 137/ 5 177/ 4 136/ 4 156/ 3 1,209 7 1 3 1- 011B LENNAN Connor MTG Mt Green Archery Club 117/ 4 133/ 5 99/ 4 132/ 4 145/ 4 291/ 1 117/ 5 116/ 5 1,150 2 0 4 1- 010D BARRACLOUGH Walter AAC Auckland Archery Club 162/ 2 146/ 3 73/ 5 108/ 5 152/ 3 113/ 6 16/ 8 48/ 7 818 2 0 5 1- 009B BOYLE Finn MTG Mt Green Archery Club 0 0 0 0 200/ 2 174/ 5 173/ 1 192/ 2 739 5 4 6 1- 011A BUBLITZ Danny MTG Mt Green Archery Club 0 0 0/ 4 0/ 4 80/ 6 251/ 2 139/ 3 154/ 4 624 1 0 7 1- 010C KIM Chang-Sern MTG Mt Green Archery Club 13/ 7 90/ 6 61/ 7 77/ 7 69/ 7 76/ 7 36/ 7 78/ 6 500 4 1 8 1- 010A CHIGNELL Henry MTG Mt Green Archery Club 87/ 5 140/ 4 104/ 3 140/ 3 0 0 0 0 471 0 0 9 1- 009A LI Wilson MTG Mt Green Archery Club 15/ 6 39/ 7 63/ 6 92/ 6 42/ 8 32/ 8 44/ 6 38/ 8 365 0 0
Recurve - Cub Women Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 40m 35m 30m 25m 40m 35m 30m 25m Total 10 X 1 1- 011C LI Serina MTG Mt Green Archery Club 0 0 0 0 33/ 1 115/ 1 94/ 1 90/ 1 332 3 1
Recurve - Novice Men Pos. Athlete Cat. Country 14m 14m 14m 14m 14m 14m 14m 14m Total 10 X 1 1- 013A LEES Nick MTG Mt Green Archery Club 255/ 1 248/ 2 187/ 2 180/ 1 244/ 1 258/ 1 172/ 2 206/ 1 1,750 13 3 2 1- 013C WADE Tomas MTG Mt Green Archery Club 249/ 2 252/ 1 198/ 1 162/ 2 238/ 2 237/ 2 228/ 1 131/ 2 1,695 13 3 3 1- 013B CHIGNELL Eliot MTG Mt Green Archery Club 190/ 3 177/ 3 137/ 3 114/ 3 0 0 0 0 618 0 0
15 1/2 Class & Division Result List - Individual - 20130602.070436 Mindfulness
Your mental game for indoor archery One of the greatest things about indoor competitions is the can take some practise, but we all have these wild thoughts that run consistency. There is no waiting for the wind to pass, varying light through our minds when we don’t want them to, and trying to stop conditions or rain. While external forces such as these appear to be them is impossible. Not engaging with them is a key strategy that will mostly eliminated, it is now the internal forces that seem to be much help you shoot your best shots when your best is needed. more noticeable. Below are two skills that I have found to really help me shoot my best scores. Secondly, it is easy to let our guard down and wonder about the future, or think about the past. This is natural human behaviour and In archery, I believe there are many fundamentals that one must cannot be stopped (it would be very unproductive if it could be). master to be able to shoot their best scores. For me, the most A good strategy to bring yourself back to present I have found is fundamental attribute that your mental game must include is focusing on what you can feel. I personally like to focus on my muscle mindfulness. Mindfulness simply defined is being conscious of the movements and what I can feel with my hands. For example, if I am present. You are not thinking about the past, or worrying about the on the line shooting arrows and I notice I am beginning to think future, you are focused on the happening of now. The importance of about score or worry about my shooting, I like to focus my attention this is paramount. You cannot expect to perform at your peak while on feeling my handgrip or trigger and really concentrate on as much you are worrying about arrows you have not shot yet. We are all guilty detail as I can. On the Hoyt grip, you have the word HOYT cut into the at one time or another of counting as score as we go, or thinking handgrip so I like to feel my way around the letters, spelling them out about how good it would be to beat our PB’s, but this style of thinking in my head as I go. can be detrimental to our performance. So what are some ways we can employ mindfulness in our shooting? If you do begin to engage in distracting thoughts while at full draw, something I have found that really helped me was to focus solely on Firstly, mindfulness is not about stopping negative or distracting the muscle movements. For example, when you are at full draw and thoughts from entering our minds. If you are consciously trying aiming, try focusing on the muscle movements of the push-pull. By to stop these from entering, you will fail 100% of the time. A little occupying your conscious mind with the feelings of the shot, you are experiment to prove my point, I say ‘Don’t think about a purple able to lower the chances of distracting thoughts entering your mind. Elephant’. What do you think of? A purple elephant. What the This is a very simple process that will keep you in the present and stop mindfulness approach to thinking teaches is to not engaging in these you worrying about the future or any other distractions that may be distracting thoughts. causing you to lose focus. Instead of taking hold of a thought and investing mental energy in it Hopefully these two suggestions can help you begin to develop some by focusing on it, the process is simplified to accepting the thought, strategies for dealing with the pressures of shooting in competitions. and letting it go. For example, when you are at full draw and the words ‘Don’t Miss’ come into your head, this can be very distracting. Steve Clifton If you engage with this thought and begin to worry about it, you are likely to have a poor performance. Instead, if you accept the thought as just that: a thought (and not a prediction or prophecy) and let it go without investing in it, you will not cause yourself to get distracted or anxious and are much more likely to have a good performance. This 16 Zombies! Archery!
No, this isn’t a video game, this was the Junior Team Tournament at Auckland
Auckland Archery Club has run the Junior Team Tournament for nearly 14 years now, and has been a great place for juniors to start out with tournaments in a fun environment. We’ve had several different variations over the years, from half a day of field and half a day of target, to target then matchplay, to two full days of shooting. After last year’s matchplay in the sun, we decided to shake it up and have field and target – which took a bit of organisation. As the entries rolled in we tried to figure out the best way to get everyone to shoot. Instead of previous years where the target was held in the morning and then field in the afternoon, we decided to split the entries into two groups, and run both events at the same time. Which meant frantic emails gathering helpers to man each of the field targets as well as the target line!W hat was worse was the weather forecast kept getting gloomier and gloomier, and there was no option but to grit my teeth and hope. I thought it was going to pour down the whole day, so imagine my surprise and pleasure when it dawned on Sunday 19 May with light uphill and downhill, while the U20s and the U14 compounders hit the showers and mostly sun. The ground was sodden but the spirits were target range. A few quick showers didn’t dull the crew from enjoying high as kids from all over Auckland gathered at Cornwall Park. Their their day, and even though lunch was held under umbrellas, everyone parents were a bit confused as to why their kids had dragged them was having a good time. This being a fun tournament, parents were encouraged to follow their kids around the field course, watching them shoot and learning about scoring, and also allowed to help them score the target rounds. Congratulations to Liam Newson, who shot a Robin Hood during the target event. With the field, we had two types of targets and scoring.W e had five targets set up with conventional World Archery field targets (black and yellow) with field scoring.W e had three large targets, a bugs eye and four small spots. We also had a Velociraptor painted on some cardboard for a bit of fun – and that was done in World Archery 3-D scoring (although you were allowed 3 arrows, just for consistency in our scoresheets!) The target event was standard World Archery 10- zone scoring.
Team winners Team Name Score C.A.I.N. 7304 Zombies “eat fresh” 6959 Men in Black 6918
Individual winners IU14 Recurve Matthew Storer U14 Compound Isaac Ellery U20 Recurve Cheree Kinnear U20 Compound Nate Teo out of bed to this windy, rainy park, but seeing the targets set up around the hillside gave them hope that something was still on. At lunch we held two fun events, the “Monster Shoot”, along with a Each team consisted of four people, of any age and bow-type, as mini-clout event “Shoot the Fish”. The monster (an inflatable animal long as they were under 20. We had kids as young as 6 competing from the $2 shop), I hear, got completely destroyed, while the fish, in their first tournament, ranging all the way up to a stack of 18 year shot at with a tiny Cartel compound and regular arrows, survived to olds. Each team was asked to have a uniform and a banner, as spot live for another year! With the Monster shoot an arrow managed to prizes were to be won, and there were some great entries, including get up in a tree at one point, prompting the ladder to be brought out Zombies (eat fresh), Men in Black, Superheroes, Jaws - some sharks for a rescue. plus their sharkdog mascot, some geeks, some Arrows with their masks painted on, a group of Katniss Everdeen Mockingjays and four In the afternoon the two groups were swapped over, with the U20s Star Wars fans. and the U14 Compounders taking to the field, and the U14 Recurvers attacking the targets. While it grew cloudier, everyone seemed more We had split the teams up into groups: U14 Recurve (the biggest comfortable with what was going on, and it was just down to trying group), U20 recurve, U20 compound and U14 compound. We mixed to beat the rain. Just in time – at the last end! It started to pour with the archers up a bit to simulate a real tournament, and kicked the day rain. The scoresheets were hastily brought inside, and the clubhouse off. The U14 Recurvers went around the field course first, shooting was crammed with people trying to take down their gear. Our admin
17 Top Results for Each Division
Name Team Score 1 Score 2 Total U14 Recurve Field Matthew Storer Men in Black 191 team checked and double- Full Results of Teams James Kwok Men in Black 174 checked the scoresheets to get Kate Gustafson Mockingjays 171 the correct results, and the final Team Name Score results were ready. U14 Recurve Target C.A.I.N. 7304 Matthew Storer Men in Black 345 347 692 I had the honour as the Zombies “eat fresh” 6959 tournament organiser to Luke Franklyn Men in Black 330 348 678 present the awards, which Men in Black 6918 Kate Gustafson Mockingjays 325 322 647 were a mixture of medals, Super Arrows 6672 chocolate bars and badges. U14 Compound Field Jaws 6465 The best uniform had to go Isaac Ellery C.A.I.N. 228 to the Star Wars Gang, with The Wiggles 5747 their costumes, including Jonty Knocker Jaws 213 lightsabres, which they carried Mockingjays 5606 Liam Newson Super Arrows 198 around all day! The best banner The Hoods of Matakana 4771 went to team C.A.I.N., who U14 Compound Target sported not only the biggest The Star Wars Gang 4561 Isaac Ellery C.A.I.N. 357 359 716 but by far the best-painted of Yellow Hat 4021 Liam Newson Super Arrows 343 345 688 the banners. Spot prizes were also given out to the monster Team of Three 3867 Jonty Knocker Jaws 325 355 680 shoot winner, the clout winner, Superheroes 3544 U20 Recurve Field and the girl who managed to shoot up into the tree. Country Munchkins 2845 Cheree Kinnear Zombies “eat fresh” 171 The team scores were based on Speedy Arrows 1666 Rachel Burge Zombies “eat fresh” 163 a ranking system - the highest Treasa Pool Zombies “eat fresh” 153 scorer of each event (target or U20 Recurve Target field) gained 1000 points for their division, with all other results based off that. Rachel Burge Zombies “eat fresh” 300 327 627 Congratulations to all the archers who turned up to give it a go, and Cheree Kinnear Zombies “eat fresh” 304 301 605 all the parents who braved the wind and rain and sun to offer their Alisha Duthie C.A.I.N. 278 314 592 support. Very much thanks to Angelo and Stephanie Georgalli who U20 Compound Field brought down an amazing team from Matakana Archery Club, Eddie Johannison from Shore Archery and Earl Duthie from Mountain Green Nate Teo C.A.I.N. 179 Archery Club for always offering their support. Dev Kumar Yellow Hat 132 Thanks to our support team from Auckland and all the parents who Corey Fray C.A.I.N. 126 helped out with the scoring - if it weren’t for you we wouldn’t be able to get this far! Thanks also to Bert Bourgeois who came with his very U20 Compound Target shiny large camera to take pictures of the event. Nate Teo C.A.I.N. 316 313 629 Caro Geelen Corey Fray C.A.I.N. 291 324 615 Photos: Bert Bourgeois Dev Kumar Yellow Hat 238 289 527
18 Stabilisers: what are they
Go to any competition, Field or Target, and not only will for when setting up your stabiliser system. Almost any sensible you see pretty well every combination of rods, ‘V’ bars, stabiliser or combination of stabilisers will control pitch and torque adequately, steady aiming is the key to the success of doinkers and weights possible, but you will see very few more advanced set-ups. exact duplicates. It seems that everyone has a different 3. Finally, stabilisers absorb vibration, making the bow quieter and way of setting up their stabilisers. So why is it that, in more pleasant to shoot. This task is important, but less so than an increasingly standardised sport, stabilisers remain a the first two. Vibration does not directly affect accuracy: by the hotbed of individuality? time the vibrations start, the arrow is long gone. Ironically, this is the main, even sole criterion by which many archers judge their What is it that stabilisers actually do? stabilisers. Vibration is not the same as large-scale movement, and it is quite easy to devise a setup that is almost vibration-free All stabiliser systems have to perform three main tasks: on the shot, but shakes like a leaf in the wind at full draw, and kicks like a mule on release. So, if you can get a quiet, vibration- 1. Their first, most important function is to control the shot by free shot as well as the best possible groups, great, but always let reducing pitch and torque and yaw (ie rotation in all directions) at the groups decide. the point of release. The best way to do this effectively is by the use of weights, preferably on the end of a comparatively long rod. Incidentally, if the vibration in your system is severe, especially if bits So one of the features to look for in any stabiliser system is that are forever unscrewing themselves, or even breaking, the answer somewhere, whether on the long rod, the back rods of a ‘V’ bar may not be more or better stabilisation. It may be better tuning. system or counterweights elsewhere on the bow, there should be The chances are that your tiller is out of true or that you are trying to some sort of weight, preferably adjustable. shoot arrows that are too light or too weak. What types of stabilisers are there? Single rods These are still the most common type of stabiliser for recurves and for any basic set-up. They are very good at controlling pitch and torque, and helping move your centre of mass forward. They can also help reduce vibration – try attaching a rubber doinker at the end of the rod.
Multi rods They are excellent for giving a steady aim, as they have a sliding weight system that allows the balance point to be adjusted (and type of vibration frequencies absorbed) without changing the overall mass. Used without an end weight, they are also very good on strongly deflexed risers, which tend to be front-heavy even without a stabiliser. Compared to single rods they are also very good at absorbing shock and vibration, though may be more susceptible to wind drift due to the added surface area. The ability of any rod system to control pitch and torque depend mainly on how far forward it The weights at the back of the v-bar. is balanced. The free-end rods may not control pitch and torque sufficiently for some archers, especially if the weights are placed 2. Their second function is to allow a steady, comfortable aim, by a) far back, but they are excellent for steadying the aim and as shock counterbalancing the natural tendency of the bow to come back absorbers. Fixed-end rods usually have additional end weights, but a towards the archer at full draw (centre of mass) and b) generally light weight system means that the same effect can be obtained, with damping tremors and shakes. To be effective in this function, improved shock absorption, by using very long rods (up to 41”). a stabiliser system should allow you to move the balance point backwards and forwards easily. This may be done by adding and removing weights but also can be achieved by sliding weights backwards and forwards, especially on multi-rod stabilisers. Once you are past the stage of just putting a very basic long rod on the bow, this is the most important feature you should look
Example of multi-rod stabiliser setup. Long rod only of the multi-rod variety.
19 for anyway?
‘V’ Bars ‘V’ bars are almost universal on recurves and quite a few compounders use them also. The idea is to get more weight out around the bow, to control the pitch and torque better, but in a way that does not make the bow too front-heavy. They are well worth trying, whatever setup you shot, but in the end you are going to have to make up your mind whether the extra weight earns its keep. Quite often you will see compound archers using just a single v-bar out the back. This set-up can counter-balance the large sight-block, as well as the offset bow window. This does aim ‘heavy’, but can give a more neutral dynamic reaction to the shot (i.e. the bow jumps forward at the point of release).
Materials The choice of materials for stabilisers is exactly the same as for arrows: alloy, carbon and composite V-bars aluminium/carbon in ascending order of cost. The claimed The best advice I can give is: first remember that every stabiliser advantage of carbon and composites is that they are better at shock system has its three separate functions; and try to borrow before you absorption. This is true, by-and-large, but it is worth repeating that buy. This is usually easy enough, as most long-term archers have a shock absorption is only one of the three tasks a stabiliser system has heap of discarded stabilisers in their equipment drawer at home! to perform, and it is the one that has nothing to do with accuracy.
In the end, there are no rules. Use what gives you, personally, the best, most consistent groups and don’t worry about fashion. Here are a few guidelines to get you started: 1. A note of caution. Some people will advise you to add weight until the end of the stabiliser stays steady, or falls away slightly on executing the shot, ie never jumps upwards. This is not always the case. You are trying to achieve a “dynamically neutral” shot, as opposed to a “statically neutral” shot. There IS a different dynamically neutral point for every wrist position, so try out different systems until the An example of composite aluminium/carbon stabilisers grouping feels right. 2. Start with a light weight and add weights The material, as such, has no direct effect on steadying the aim or systematically, letting your groups (not the controlling the shot. In the end, the choice of material is largely a ‘feel’ or sound of your bow) be the final matter of cost. deciders. Shapes 3. Always do the mental arithmetic: all additional stabilisers add weight; do they improve your Most stabilisers are circular, but there is the new carbon blade score consistently and in the long term? If not, style which is flatter, more elliptical. A cylinder shape is very stable, then they are just fashion accessories. especially in windy conditions, although it does have a high surface area. The elliptical shape of the “blade” is more stable in horizontal wind, yet I hear that when the wind swirls around, it can be more difficult to control the bow. Emma Allworthy
20 Practising at Home Safety tips for setting up a home range. Once new archers have been hooked Isolate – Isolation means to separate. As an example, putting an impenetrable wall with the archery bug, they will between the risk and other members of the commonly want to practice more public will achieve isolation. If you have a in their quest for world archery Always work on the block-work garage at home, this is an ideal dominance! location. Note that glass windows or tin walls risk hierarchy EIM: will barely slow an arrow down (refer the Often I’ll hear from a new archer that they accident mentioned in the second paragraph). have been practising at home, followed You can cover windows with thick ply shortly by me questioning whether they Eliminate (>12mm). have taken into consideration the safety of their new ‘range’. This stems from the Isolate Less beneficial means of isolation may be to memory of an accident a number of years put up cordons to prevent people crossing ago in Australia, where a promising junior Minimise into a danger area, or barricading doors. archer missed his bale at home and the Minimise – Where all other options are not arrow went through the wall – fatally possible, you must minimise the risk. If you wounding an elderly next door neighbour have sufficient visibility down-range (i.e. on an who had been tending a BBQ. open farm paddock), you can minimise the risk This may shock some, given archery’s excellent safety record by keeping aware of everyone’s movements, and if someone were compared to other sports, but archery is at its core a weapons to enter the danger area, you (or a parent) could halt shooting sport, and should be treated as such when it comes to safety. until the area is clear. Club grounds will have equipment available such as signs and If for any reason you do not have visibility of a location that an flags to indicate to the public that there is a range. W hen setting arrow could land, or an entrance point where someone could up a range at home, archers must be aware of the risks, and access the range, DO NOT SHOOT. In this situation it is simply not take all practicable measures to mitigate risks. In many cases in safe to set up a range. Expect the worst, and imagine a next door suburban areas, it is simply not safe to have a range – in these neighbour’s child hopping the fence to collect a ball, or similar. cases, call it quits and practice at the archery club only. Guidelines for Home Ranges What Can Go Wrong? 1. Wait until after your first full year of shooting before setting The reason many new archers are unconcerned about the up a home range – you should appreciate what can go wrong location for their new home range is that they haven’t seen what before you can safely assess whether you have an area that is can go wrong, and so can’t think of all the different situations suitable for a home range. If necessary – ask an experienced or consequences. In 15 years of archery, I have seen a number archer to look over the area you are considering and offer of instances where even the best archers have had poor shots, advice. sending arrows well outside their normal group. Here are just a few instances where this has happened: 2. The preferred location for a home range is within an enclosed structure like a garage that arrows can’t penetrate (e.g. • Arrow accidentally placed on top of the button concrete block, brick or hard wood). Beware of windows, or • Back-tension release aid over-rotated, or release Aid caliper/D- other weak points where arrows could penetrate. loop breaks mid-draw (NEVER ‘sky-draw’ for this reason) 3. If you are in a rural area, set up a range where you have • Nock breaks on release visibility well behind and to the sides of the target. • Arrow pinched off the arrow rest at the point of release Andrew Russell • Sight accidentally left on 90m setting The list could be endless. Bear in mind that even shots slightly off centre can end up much further away – arrows have ricocheted at surprising angles, and ended up 100m down-range from the target! My compound bow would shoot approximately 350m if I drew it up to 45 degrees, so there is a lot of energy in a bow to consider. Arrows can also rebound off hard surfaces like steel, and injure you when shooting close – these surfaces need to be protected. Improving Safety of Home Ranges It is still permissible to set up a range at home if the risk can be safely managed. Always work on the risk hierarchy EIM (Eliminate > Isolate > Minimise). This means that at first you should eliminate a risk. Where this is not possible, isolate the risk, and as a further stage, minimise any residual risk. In this case, if you are not able to eliminate the risk of archery at home by practicing at the club, then we must either isolate or minimise.
21 Develop your Stance
Have you ever wondered why some archers spend time It is important that your get the right foot position for you. If you putting in foot pegs on the line, and making sure their have the wrong stance, you will unconsciously fight your body while it tries to centre itself. Form imperfections may show up feet are in the right place? and affect your arrow flight from the point where you release Foot placement during a shot can affect arrow flight.Y our body the arrow until the arrow leaves the bow. If you have proper has a natural centring point and if your feet are not positioned stance, unique to you, you can eliminate this possibility and your properly, your shot may be directed towards your centring point accuracy will improve. in a fraction of a second during the shot. There are three basic foot It is also important that you relax into your stance. Breathe by positions, all of which should be shoulder’s width apart. relaxing your stomach, its ok to have your ‘keg’ hanging out. Square stance – Feet are in line with each other, drawing a line Own it. Don’t breathe shallow, breathe deep. This will make your perpendicular to the target. stance more heavy and settled. There shouldn’t be any rocking or movement in your upper body once you have mastered this, to the point that the wind doesn’t bother you. Have you ever seen archers standing on the line before a shoot, pointing at the target? They know what they are talking about: don’t be afraid to ask why. Ludmilla Belaboradoff
Closed stance – front foot is forward of the body TOGS I was much amused to read, in your last issue, of the GOMONZ as it reminded me of the group of similarly minded members in my club back in the UK, Droitwich Archery Society, in Worcestershire. We were five retired chaps who would meet at the club shooting grounds in the afternoon before club nights. We set out the field ready for the club and would then shoot a round in our own leisurely manner. When the rest of the club arrived to shoot, Open stance – front foot is open to the target the field was all ready for them and we old fellas would leave them to it and wend our way home, often via a local hostelry, for our evening meals. We became known as ìThe Old Gitsî and so we decided to set ourselves up as an informal club known as ìThe Droitwich TOGsî or Toxophilitic Old Gits. We designed our own club shirt, which I thought might give a little chuckle to your readers. Best regards Alan Logan
To find what position your body prefers, follow the simple steps below. 1. Using an indoor range with a wide wall, place a target face in the centre of the wall. 2. Assume the stance you would use to shoot the target. 3. Without moving your feet, raise your bow arm, line up your index finger with the target, and close your eyes for 10 seconds. 4. When you open your eyes, your finger will either be, still on the target, to the left or to the right of the target. 5. If you find your finger pointing to the right of the target, perhaps move your front foot to a more open stance, not by much, perhaps just start with 1 inch. Close up your foot position if your finger is pointing to far to the left, again not by much. Try a little at a time.
22 Archery and the Greeks
The Greek military preferred heavy infantry, such as hoplites (the spear and swordsmen), and a lot of their stories and songs glorify their work. But they did recognize and use archers in their warfare. In fact, they used quite a different combination of men in their wars – hoplites (the heavy spears), light-armoured soldiers, and archers. Famous generals in Greek history were praised on their strategies for using a combination of archers as covering fire for their hoplites to get into position for the main attack. CJ Longman, in his book Notes on Ancient Archery, says: “From Herodotus’ description of the army which Xerxes [Ed. the Persian King we know so well from the movie 300] led against the Greeks we learn that a very large proportion of his troops were armed with bows. So numerous, indeed, were the archers that before Thermopylae Dieneces - said to have been the bravest of the Spartans - was told that when the Medes began to shoot they would obscure the sun by the multitude of their shafts. To which Dieneces gave his famous answer, ‘so much the better for the Greeks, for they would then have to fight in the shade.’” Longman also notes that Plato, in his treatise on the Laws, recommends that boys after six years of age should ‘learn I had a conversation with a young Greek boy at our club horsemanship and archery, and the hurling of darts and the using about the fact that he thought that archers in Greece of slings, and females should learn, too’. Plato also calls attention were considered cowardly and not heroic. I responded to the fact that the Scythians taught their youth to shoot both right and left handed. by saying well if that’s the truth, then why does Hercules carry a bow? The boy responded heatedly saying that But for the most part, Greeks glorified their hand-to-hand combat soldiers, and merely viewed at archers as useful. After all, the archers weren’t considered heroic in Greek mythology or Greeks had defeated the Persians, who used bows, so therefore history. their methods of battle were superior. It did not matter that the I’ve taken it upon myself to find out if this is true or not… and I’ve Persians may not have used their bows that effectively! In later come up with some surprising results. years, those of Alexander the Great, archers were used much more often, and the days of the heroes and their singular skills seemed There are many Greek writers and poets whose texts survive to have passed – and the focus was more on the army. today, and that is where the majority of our cultural references come from in regards to Greek history and mythology, and it is mostly the opinions of those who wrote down ancient stories “Dieneces ... was told that when the that survive. Homer, the most famous writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is of course the chief source, and he seemed to have Medes began to shoot they would a personal aversion to archery, especially as his greatest hero, Achilles, is slain by the “cowardly Paris”, who shot him in the ankle obscure the sun by the multitude of with an arrow. Yet Philoctetes, who also wielded a bow, shot Paris in revenge. their shafts. To which Dieneces gave This is an excerpt from the book Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece by Lesley and Roy Adkins. This part is about Archers, under his famous answer, ‘so much the the chapter on warfare: better for the Greeks, for they would “Archers were used in Greek warfare from earliest times, and archery is mentioned quite often in Homer’s Iliad. then have to fight in the shade.’” Archery seems to have played a crucial role in the Trojan War, but Homer implies that archers had a lower status than spearmen. Leaders like Teucer and Odysseus were proficient Yet while this preference for swords and spears is shown, there with the bow, but they also fought with other weapons. are also archers who are given pride of place: Heracles, Apollo, Nevertheless, the importance of archery was not fully Philoctetes, even Paris. (See page 4 for a list of ancient Greek appreciated until the latter part of the Peloponnesian War, archers). Archery was a skill, and recognised as such even then. Of and archers were not always used effectively. The Greeks all the places in Greece, it was Crete where archery was held in a never used archers as a main element of their forces. Archers place of pride. There are numerous representations of archers on were generally armed with only a bow and arrows and did Cretan coins throughout a very long period, and they appear to not wear armor. They were almost always foot soldiers.” have been famous for their bowmanship. So the ancient Greeks seemed to have archers, yet not use them To resolve the argument, the ancient Greeks knew bows were an particularly well. They did have some measure of respect for effective weapon, and a skill to use, and while some of the writers archers, for two of the Greeks’ most important gods, Apollo and may have said they were cowardly because you used them from Artemis, wielded the bow and arrows. Heracles (more commonly afar, they also knew that there were many battles that would not known by the Romanised Hercules) famously used his bow to have been won without the use of archers. shoot down the Stymphalian birds in one of his twelve tasks. Caro Geelen They did consider archers useful. However, the common thought Pictures courtesy of Wikimedia commons. among the Greeks was that they would much rather stand and fight. According to Euripides, a famous playwright: “the measure References: of a man’s bravery is not archery; rather he who stands fast in his Notes on Ancient Archery by C.J. Longman rank and gazes unflinchingly at the swift gash of the spear.” Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece by Lesley and Roy Adkins
23 JAMA Update Happy 500! I’ve got some news for you all! I’ve just spent a weekend NB: We are looking to leverage off the success in Auckland to enhance competition between secondary schools nationwide so watch this in Auckland at the Board meeting, and gleaned this space (and I think that my proposal that Archery NZ provides medals information that I’d like to share. for sanctioned inter-school competitions in the future has/will be accepted). JAMA Postal Rounds The last three rounds of this year’s outdoor programme included Archery In Schools Programme the recently suggested alternate of 3rd and 4thdistance for the 239 young archers from 56 schools participated in this year’s Term 1 quarter FITA round. Initial impressions are positive and overall the Archery In Schools (AIS) program. This competition is growing rapidly competition continues to grow. as more schools are joining and, on behalf of Archery NZ, I’d like to Pins and Badges propose that a huge thanks goes to the coaches from the five Archery Clubs who took up the challenge to provide access to archery to a During the last period a total of 20 JAMA badges have been claimed. wide range of school children. Term 2 promises to be even bigger. A breakdown of the claims is below:
Award Tally 2014 Trans-Tasman Challenge The Trans-Tasman Challenge is to be hosted by Australia in 2014 Outdoor perfect pins 2 on the Gold Coast – further confirmation to follow. There is also a JAMA overall score badges 13 suggestion on the table to initiate a regional ‘Oceania’ tournament that could run on alternate years between the Trans-Tasman Postal pin-score badges 5 tournament. NB: I’m off to replenish stocks so (with apologies for previous tardy responses) don’t be afraid to claim them! New Membership Membership for Archery NZ is now exceeding 500! Growth seems to 2013 JAMA NI and SI Champs be across all divisions but the JAMA divisions stand out as having the biggest increases, particularly at the lower age groups Kiwi, Cub and Both the 2013 JAMA South Island in Christchurch and North Island Intermediate. So, ‘happy 500’ everyone, I’m sure that this is only the Champs in Rotorua were well attended. Feedback was that, despite start and that we will continue to grow. the North Island drought breaking on the Sunday of the competition in Rotorua with a report that it was “ok for farmers but not much Chris Jones use for archers”, both competitions were successful and enjoyable. Archery NZ provided the medals and, thanks to some quick work by Tony Walker at TW Graphics Ltd, participation certificates which were awarded to all participants. NB: look out for a call which will go out soon for hosts of the 2014 JAMA Champs.
Other JAMA Competitions Auckland Secondary Schools tournament was held at Auckland Archery Club on Saturday 6th April. With both individual and teams match play events, involving 52 archers in the recurve division and 14 in the compound division, this was another successful competition. Club medals were awarded to the winners and there was a request that, for future years, it would be more appropriate that we look to provide Archery NZ medals for inter- school competitions. Organisers of competitions would pre-order medals from Archery NZ and cover Vera Yakzhik guides some kiwi archers during the Auckland Archery Club Junior Tournament. the cost out of the entry fees. Photo Bert Bourgeois
24 Upcoming Events
Archers This list is provided for your information and is up to date at the time of printing. For New Zealand tournaments please look for further information on the Archery NZ website or contact the clubs for tournament details. For overseas tournaments please contact the national secretary for details. Some tournaments may have already been by the time of printing and distribution.
New Zealand World Archery Events
2013 2013 13.07.13 - 14.07.13 Gisborne Vegas Shoot 13.05.13 - 19.05.13 Archery World Cup Stage 1, P.R. China Gisborne Archery Club (Unregistered) 10.06.13 - 16.06.13 Archery World Cup Stage 2, Turkey 03.08.13 - 04.08.13 SIDAA Indoor Championships dunedin Archery Club 30.06.13 - 05.07.13 2013 Australian National Youth Championships Australia 18.08.13 GAC Single FITA Star Gisborne Archery Club 08.07.13 - 14.07.13 129th U.S. National Target Championships and u.S. Open/2013 Easton JOAD Nationals, USA 24.08.13 - 25.08.13 42nd Archery NZ Indoor Championships Manawatu Archery Club 15.07.13 - 21.07.13 Archery World Cup Stage 3, Colombia 22.09.13 GAC Single FITA Star 25.07.13 - 04.08.13 World Games (Outdoor Compound: 27-28 July) Gisborne Archery Club Colombia 20.10.13 GAC Single FITA Star 27.07.13 - 03.08.13 Asian Second Grand Prix, Mongolia Gisborne Archery Club 19.08.13 - 25.08.13 Archery World Cup Stage 4, Poland 26.10.13 - 28.10.13 Neroli Fairhall Memorial FITA Star 21.09.13 - 22.09.13 Archery World Cup Final, France christchurch Archery Club 29.09.13 - 06.10.13 World Archery Championships, Turkey 17.11.13 GAC Single FITA Star Gisborne Archery Club 08.10.13 - 12.10.13 World Archery 3D Championships, Italy 23.11.13 - 24.11.13 Graeme Marett Memorial FITA Star 13.10.13 - 20.10.13 World Archery Youth Championships, P.R. China dunedin Archery Club 07.12.13 - 08.12.13 Indoor Archery World Cup 2013-14 Stage 1 23.11.13 - 24.11.13 Sir Walter Nash Gold Star Singapore wanganui Archery Club 07.12.13 - 08.12.13 One Tree Hill Cup, 2014 auckland Archery Club 24.01.14 - 26.01.14 Indoor Archery World Cup 2013-14 Stage 2, 15.12.13 GAC Single FITA Star France Gisborne Archery Club 07.02.14 - 09.02.14 Indoor Archery World Cup 2013-14 Stage 3 and Final, USA 2014 04.01.14 - 10.01.14 71st Archery NZ National Championships Whitianga 19.01.14 GAC 720 Gisborne Archery Club 25.01.14 - 27.01.14 ADAA FITA, Double 720 and Matchplay auckland Archery Club Note for organisers 08.02.14 - 09.02.14 Chingford FITA Star dunedin Archery Club At the conclusion of your tournament please forward 16.02.14 GAC Single FITA Star the completed tournament form, results and judges Gisborne Archery Club levies to the Judges’ Administrator: 22.02.14 - 23.02.14 Auckland Archery Club Double FITA Ann Powley, 45 Shandon Road, Vauxhall, auckland Archery Club Dunedin 9013 01.03.14 - 02.03.14 Bill Inwood FITA Star christchurch Archery Club 16.03.14 GAC 720 Gisborne Archery Club 29.03.14 york, Hereford and Bristol christchurch Archery Club 05.04.14 christchurch AC Clout Championships christchurch Archery Club 12.04.14 christchurch AC Target Championships christchurch Archery Club 19.04.14 - 21.04.14 SIDAA Target and Clout Championships, christchurch Archery Club
25 Archer Ranking Ranking results for April 2013 Hi everyone, As always, the best way to contact me on any matters relating to the rankings is at the email address below. A quieter month this month, as we head into winter with a lot less events to record into the database. The eagle eyed amongst Patrick Biggs you will spot a new column this month, that of “Event Type”. This [email protected] column shows the type of event the rould was shot at, and with the return of RMTs we now have 3 categories: ‘I’: international; ‘M’: major; ‘R’: RMT. As I said last month, I am starting the process of some major changes in the database, so stay tuned..... 90m Compound - Men 90m Recurve - Men continued 70m Recurve - Women Rank archer Name division club 8 peter Emanuel M ran Rank archer Name division club 1 shaun Teasdale M MTG 9 Mark Fowles M MAC 1 elizabeth Andrew w auK 2 stephen Clifton M auK 10 rodney Halvorsen M chc 2 Maria Tucker w chc 3 stephen Florence M MTG 11 Gerwin van Royen M dun 3 Micky Gunn w MAN 4 andrew Russell M auK 12 Trevor Kennerson M TAU 4 sarah Fuller w auK 5 bruce Shuker M TIM 13 Jim Smith M ran 5 caroline Geelen w auK 6 Kirk Lawry M sTH 14 sarosh Saklatwala M auK 6 Karen Moffat-McLeod w MER 7 Gustav Bam M wan 15 Geoff McGowan M TIM 7 sue Sundheim w roT 8 Tony Waddick M ros 16 dale Wilson M GDC 8 allison Graham w sTH 9 Michael Caulton M MAC 17 richard Scheib M MTG 9 rosanne Berryman w rVG 10 stephen Mann M GIS 18 philippe Dussart M auK 10 beryl Hall w auK 11 Kenny Rogers M chc 19 craig MacRae M MAN 11 sandra Robinson w GNA 12 Trev Smithies M MAC 20 david Lamb M MAN 12 Josephine Martin w MER 13 Jeremy Dodds M MAC 21 Michael Ashburn M50M wha 13 routhelle Gaerlan w roT 14 david Huddlestone M chc 22 dennis McLeod M MER 14 hannah Paap w MAC 15 david Solomon M dun 23 craig Jager M rVG 15 Vera Yakzhik w auK 16 alan Galagher M sTH 24 Michael Cottier M chc 16 Kristina Cox w auK 17 corey Turner M ran 25 richard Holtz M auK 18 rob McMillan M wan 26 Michael Dixon M sho 70m Compound - Masters 50 - 64 Men 19 david Croskery M GIS 27 blair Lovell M MER Rank archer Name division club 20 steve Ryan M rch 28 eddie Hawkins M ? 1 david Solomon M50M dun 21 chris Underdown M GIS 29 stewart Stott M GER 2 Kenny Rogers M50M chc 22 peter Wheeldon M wan 30 alan Robinson M GNA 3 colin Tucker M50M chc 23 colin Tucker M chc 31 Jonathan Couper-Smartt M una 4 rob McMillan M50M wan 24 phil Murphy M wan 32 Kyle Yuen M auK 5 peter Wheeldon M50M wan 25 bertrand Bourgeois M auK 6 ross Bailey M50M MAC 26 Tony Eastwood M MAN 70m Compound - Women 7 colin Mitchell M50M ros 27 Michael Ashburn M wha Division Club 8 Michael Ashburn M50M wha 28 chris Jones M MAC 1 elizabeth Ellery-Siaosi w auK 9 Tony Eastwood M50M MAN 29 paul Bates M chc 2 barbara Scott w GRE 10 Gordon Harris M50M MAN 30 colin Marshall M GIS 3 anne Mitchell w ros 11 Michael Thomson M50M rVG 31 Justin Dittert M MAC 4 linda Lainchbury w MTG 12 des Coe M50M laK 32 Kevin Horn M TAU 5 alison Turner w MER 13 Kevin Horn M50M TAU 33 neil Carter M roT 6 chloe Underdown w GIS 14 John Bennett M50M laK 34 charles Boucher M auK 7 hanlie Bam w wan 15 david Huddlestone M50M chc 35 william Halliday M GIS 8 annemaree Senior w dun 16 andrew Beaton M50M chc 36 chris Kennington M sTH 9 nicky Solomon w dun 17 paul Bates M50M chc 37 andrew Beaton M chc 10 Mandy Nash w sTH 18 Geoff Paterson M50M auK 11 Trudi Waddick w sTH 19 Keith Martin M50M auK 90m Recurve - Men 12 debbie Warren w wan Rank archer Name division club 13 sarah Collett w rVG 1 robert Peterson M sTH 14 sandy Hughes w GIS 2 duncan Liu M rVG 15 Maureen McMillan M50w wan 3 sean Walker M auK 16 christine Devillard w roT 4 scott Collett M rVG 17 briana Joynt w nzf 5 warren Kertell M auK 18 charlotte Jones w MAC 6 yiftach Swery M auK 7 Kon-Jin Kwek M auK
26 Archer Ranking Ranking results for April 2013 continued
70m Recurve - Masters 50 - 64 Men JAMA Compound - Women continued JAMA Recurve - Women Rank archer Name division club 6 hannah Smillie cu MTG Rank archer Name division club 1 John Charles M50M auK 7 nadia Smetanina K aiM 1 cheree Kinnear caw auK 2 david Manning M50M MTG 2 Victoria Wassilieff i MAC 3 John Luxford M50M GER JAMA Recurve - Men 3 alisha Duthie caW MTG 4 dennis McLeod M50M MER Rank archer Name division club 4 rachel Burge Jw auK 5 dave Morse M50M MAC 1 sean Walker JM auK 5 hannah Hawley caW MAC 6 colin Faiers M50M MAC 2 Jeremy Hollis caM MAN 6 annalise Risi Jw roT 7 fred Davidson M65M MAC 3 Kieran Sanson i MAC 7 Tara Mackle JW MAN 8 rodney Halvorsen M50M chc 4 Mykel Turner JM TAU 8 Kate Gustafson cu sho 9 d. Mroczkowski M50M sho 5 luke Franklyn i auK 9 ashleigh Paap JW MAC 10 andrew Earnshaw M50M MTG 6 Matthew Storer i auK 10 Treasa Pool Jw auK 7 James Rosendale i MAC 11 beth Paterson Jw auK 60m Compound - Masters 50 - 64 Women 8 nic Ackland cu sho 12 anna Hawes cu aiM Rank archer Name division club 9 Michael Li i MTG 13 louise Kemp caw sho 1 christine Devillard M50w roT 10 rhys Berryman i rVG 14 Victoria Tucker i chc
11 Jarrod Judge i sho 15 abbey Munro cu aiM 60m Recurve - Masters 50 - 64 Women Rank archer Name division club 12 daniel Buchanan JM rVG 16 danica Shrubb caw auK 1 lynda Webby M50w rVG 13 James Kwok i auK 17 dana Austin cu aiM 2 M. Lavender-Ashburn M50w wha 14 caleb Russ cu aiM 18 Gabrielle Meguire K aiM 15 alister Plaisted i aiM 19 olivia Sloon K aiM 60m Compound - Masters 65+ Men 16 walter Barraclough Cu auK 20 Molly Manning cu MTG Rank archer Name division club 17 Mikael Johannisson-Wallman JM SHO 21 isabel English cu aiM 1 Kevin Horn M65M TAU 18 ben Lu JM auK 2 Tony Eastwood M65M MAN 19 Konrad Hempel i MAC 3 Michael Geary M65M dun 20 robbie Harrison JM MTG 21 Kieran Nel caM MTG 60m Recurve - Masters 65+ Men 22 Julian Ward i auK Rank archer Name division club 23 cullen Quinn caM MTG 1 dave Henshaw M65M chc 24 Max Wilson i auK 25 chase Martin-Roberts i MTG JAMA Compound - Men 26 Kevin Roy i MTG Rank archer Name division club 27 austin Donegan i auK 1 Marcus Barclay caM roT 28 peter Garner JM chc 2 isaac Ellery i MTG 29 George Manning i MTG 3 reuben Ford cu sTH 30 sunjae Lee caM auK 4 sebastian Ashburn caM wha 31 william Quinn cu MTG 5 Jonty Knocker cu auK 32 ryan Dittert cu MAC 6 samuel Teo JM auK 33 daniel Jackson cu aiM 7 dean Croskery caM GIS 34 ethan Westwood K aiM 8 Tim Warren JM wan 35 connor Lennan cu MTG 9 ryan McDonald i sTH 36 wilson Li cu MTG 10 henry Bayne cu sTH 37 reuben MacDonald i sho 11 George Manning i MTG 38 danny Bublitz cu MTG 12 chris McIntosh JM MAN 39 adam Schaapveld i chc 13 Jordan Carter i roT 40 evan Kear i chc 14 corey Fray caM MTG 41 callum Stinson cu sho 15 henry Purvis i auK 42 aaron McClennan cu MER 16 Talal el-Jack cu auK 43 alex Wilkinson caM MTG 17 samuel Pratt i chc 44 alan Yi CaM auK 45 lennon Cleary cu aiM JAMA Compound - Women 46 callum McLoghlin cu chc Rank archer Name division club
1 elizabeth Randle caw roT
2 iori Morley Jw roT
3 rachel Hughes JW GIS
4 lauren Tucker cu chc 5 aurora Augustin i auK
27 Club Directory
AUCKLAND DISTRICT Whakatane Archery Club SOUTH ISLAND DISTRICT Facebook page available Mike Ashburn Auckland District Archery Association [email protected] www.sportsground.co.nz/adaa South Island District Archery Caro Geelen Association [email protected] Kim Garner Richmondvale Archers [email protected] Ray Houston [email protected] Auckland Archery Club www.aucklandarchery.org.nz AimTru Archers Jeanette Franklyn Facebook page available [email protected] WELLINGTON DISTRICT Petra Baker 03 962 5920 [email protected] Mountain Green Archery Club Wellington Archery Association www.mgac.co.nz Sean White Christchurch Archery Club Lynn Brott [email protected] [email protected] www.archerychch.co.nz Maree Hughes 027 272 2690 Greenwood Archers [email protected] Shore Archery Club www.greenwoodarchers.co.nz shorearchery.co.nz Amanda Hawrot Helen Kemp [email protected] [email protected] Dunedin Archery Club www.dunedinarcheryclub.co.nz Ann Powley Mana Archery Club 03 454 3620 ECBOPAA DISTRICT www.facebook.com/ManaArcheryClub [email protected] Adele Hollis [email protected] East Coast Bay of Plenty Archery Geraldine Archery Club Association www.geraldinearchery.co.nz David Croskery Manawatu Archery Club Del Spencer [email protected] www.manawatuarchery.org 03 693 9952 Patsy Vercoe [email protected] [email protected] Gisborne Archery Club David Croskery Rosebank Archery Club 06 867 7344 Randwick Archery Club Facebook page available [email protected] www.randwick-archery.org.nz Anne Mitchell Peter Moyes 03 418 0867 [email protected] [email protected] Mercury Bay Archery Club www.mercurybayarchers.co.nz Karen Moffatt-McLeod Trentham Camp Archery Club Southland Archery Inc 021 843 860 www.trenthamarchery.wellington.net. Allison Graham [email protected] nz 03 215 9492 Cedric Gorman [email protected] 04 563 7114 River Glade Archers [email protected] Facebook page available Bridget Larsen [email protected] Wairarapa Archers Society Neil McLaren 06 372 7839 Rotorua Archery Club [email protected] Sue Sundheim [email protected] Wanganui Archery Club Facebook page available Tauranga Archers Debbie Warren Facebook page available [email protected] Kerry Turner 07 543 1487 [email protected] Rifle Rod Gun Club & Archery www.rrgc.org.nz Kerry Murphy 06 355 2888 [email protected] 28 Judges Directory
NZFAA JUDGES COMMISSION COORDINATOR www.nzfaa.org.nz Cheryl Irvine [email protected] Ann Powley (retired) 45 Shandon Road Vauxhall, Dunedin 9013 Dargaville Field Archery Club Ph: (03) 454 3620 www.dargfieldarchery.com [email protected] Lisa Zwaans [email protected] NORTHERN NORTH ISLAND SOUTHERN NORTH ISLAND
Egmont Archery Club www.sportsground.co.nz/egmontarcheryclub Logan Andrew Peter Allen Andrew D’Ath [email protected] Ph: (04) 478 6165 [email protected] [email protected]
Richard Scheib Franklin County Archers Ph: 021 363 519 Carole Hicks www.franklincountyarchers.com [email protected] Ph: (04) 236 6699 Nigel Thompson [email protected] [email protected] John Sivess Ph: (09) 473 0390 Craig MacRae Kapiti Coast Archery Club [email protected] Ph: 027 442 4141 www.kcac.org.nz [email protected]
Graeme Watson Lakeview Archers Ph: (09) 444 1747 Graeme Williams Tirau [email protected] Ph: 021 879 065 Don 0275 894 457 [email protected]
Elizabeth Ellery-Siaosi Massey Archery Club 09 296 2381 NORTHERN SOUTH ISLAND www.masseyarchery.org.nz [email protected]
Kenny Rogers Mount Tiger CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND Ph: (03) 349 4789 www.mttigerarchers.co.nz [email protected] [email protected] David Croskery Ph: (06) 867 7344 Vince Mitalas NZ Traditional Archers [email protected] Ph: (03) 351 4224 www.ohara.co.nz [email protected] Kelvin O’Hara 07 533 1484 Les Jones Ph: (07) 312 5559 SOUTHERN SOUTH ISLAND (021) 340 380 Pine Ridge Archers [email protected] www.pineridgearchers.co.nz Anne Mitchell (Judges Marcos Doran Commission Convenor) [email protected] Tony Kemp (retired) Ph: (03) 418 0867 Ph: (07) 843 7697 [email protected] [email protected] Twin Coast Archers Club Stephen Orchard Dave Solomon 09 431 2827 Colin Marshall Ph: (03) 453 5723 Ph: (06) 867 3487 [email protected] [email protected] Whitford Forrest Archers www.whitfordforrestarchers.org.nz Grant Miller [email protected]
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