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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.