The Contenders Marrakesh Express! Is Ben Our Youngest Naomis Take Gold and Silver JMB...Or Is It Matilda?
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WINTER 2014 £4.95 The contenders Marrakesh express! Is Ben our youngest Naomis take gold and silver JMB...or is it Matilda? Let battle Meet our commence... new expert People G Looking ahead to 2015 G Funding CONTENTS 3 Welcome to COVER: WINTER 2014 £4.95 Is Ben Walch the youngest JMB? Christmas is nearly here. It’s been a fantastic year, boosted The by a glorious summer and some wonderful achievements. contenders Marrakesh express! Is Ben our youngest But now it’s time to start looking forward. Naomis take gold and silver JMB...or is it Matilda? So what do we have lined up in this issue? We take a look at the work being done to make sure that archery is Let battle Meet our included in future Commonwealth Games as well as some commence... new expert fantastic achievements by young archers, judges and People G Looking ahead to 2015 G Funding Invictus heroes, many of whom were new to the sport. There is, of course, a round up of your news, showing what archers of all ages have been up to around the country over the past few weeks. We also have a new columnist. Compound star Lucy O’Sullivan has joined the team and will be giving advice on technique as well as sharing her experience. But that is not all. On pages 42 and 43, we look at Archery UK’s plans for 2015. Cover Story There is going to be a fresh new look, a greater emphasis on grass roots archery 25 Who is Britain’s youngest JMB? and much more advice.And there’s a chance for you to get more involved.We are going to be running a free photography masterclass with Word Archery’s Dean Alberga. Places will be strictly limited, so it will be first come, first served! Find Features out more inside. 39 Invictus Games Have a very happy Christmas, a wonderful new year and a fruitful indoor season. See you in the spring! 42 All change for 2015 4 News Editor 18 People 23 History PRODUCED ON BEHALF OF ARCHERY GB BY: PUBLISHED FOR: 24 Juniors 30 Performance Archery GB,Lilleshall 34 Development National Sports & Conferencing Centre, TRMG Ltd,1 Forum Place,Hatfield,Herts AL10 0RN Newport,Shropshire TF10 9AT Tel: 01707 273 999 41 Foresters: Partners Update www.trmg.co.uk Tel: 01952 677888 44 Experts Web: www.archerygb.org Publishing Director: Email: [email protected] Jon Fellows 47 New Gear See also the Directory on p80 for individual staff Operations Director: contact details. 48 Mailbag Andrew Stevens Archery UK Head of Production: Correspondence with regard to 50 Talent Jamie Ringrose including mailing list queries and enquiries 52 Board Project Manager: about advertising,should be addressed to Kelsey Champion Archery GB at the address above. 54 Membership Design: David Colderley Copy deadline for spring edition 55 Disabilities Senior Commercial Manager: 30 January 2015 Steve Chambers Archery UK is the Official Magazine of Archery GB and is read by all 58 Judges members.While every effort is made to ensure accuracy, no While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this publication,the responsibility can be accepted for inaccuracies, however caused. 62 Diary organisers Archery GB and the publishers TRMG cannot accept liability for Letters, articles and features do not necessarily represent the opinion any statement or error contained herein © 2014 of Archery GB. 72 Records & Achievements The paper used for printing this magazine has been sourced from The decision whether or not to include material submitted for sustainably managed forests in accordance with the ISO 14001 and inclusion (whether advertising or otherwise) shall be entirely at 80 Directory EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) standards, which are the discretion of the Editor and/or the Marketing Manager. internationally recognised and externally audited integrated No responsibility can be accepted for illustrations, photographs, environmental management systems. artwork, editorial or advertising material in transmission or with the 82 From the Chairman publishers or their agents, although every care will be taken to ensure safe return of items requested to be returned. © 2014 Archery GB WINTER 2014 • ARCHERY UK 4 NEWS ADDED CLOUT enry Sherrey had been shooting well at clouts this year. But then things got Hvery much better. The Kettering Archer, who shoots longbow, was at Bowflights Archery’s annual double one-way clout in Rubery, Birmingham when he managed to pin the clout with one arrow and then hit it with another. RIVALRIES RENEWED... He almost repeated the feat three days later at the Derbyshire County Archery Welsh v English in longbow challenge Association Open Clout Championships in olitical solutions and the will of They were confronted by a band of Burton Bridge when he pinned the clout and G the people can usually be relied Welshmen... at the Double World later came agonisingly close. Pupon if there are any domestic Archery Star Tournament run by Corus issues within the UK. But that was not Deeside Archery Club in Flintshire. always the case... Mike Christison said:“Collectively Once upon a time whole armies known as the Cestrian Guard (a had to be dispatched to sort out reference to the body known as the disturbances between home nations Cheshire Archers once appointed or to secure unification... and there are official bodyguard to Richard II), the still some borderland rivalries, it seems. English forces were split into two Famously it was claimed that, in teams – one commanded by the Chester, you could shoot a Welsh noble David of Pensby (a Cheshire person with a bow and arrow inside Champion and GMB), the other the city walls and after midnight. by the redoubtable M’Lady Jude (Don’t worry, if there was such a law, it of Eccles (Lancashire Lady would have been abolished in 1830 Champion and GMB).The full with the last vestiges of the Earldom English complement included of Chester.) But such claims could, five county champions and three understandably, lead to a little British record holders.” tension with the neighbours. After a hard-fought contest the Prompted by Scottish Referendum, English teams won, beating Wales a group of longbow archers from into third place. But that is not the Cheshire and surroundings decided end of the story.The gauntlet has to cross the River Dee to see how been thrown down and, next year, the land lay. Wales will be looking for revenge... G Thumbs up at the Bowflights Clout A WARM WELCOME orton Archers welcomed clubs from all over the north east as it hosted the 56th Tyne Tees Shoot. NAnd it proved popular, with several different bowstyles represented at the competition held in Stockton on Tees. Event organiser Dave Pybus said it had been hard work – but well worth it.“I must thank the many volunteers that pulled together and really worked to make it all possible,”he said.“Without those we wouldn’t have been able to do this”. You can find all the results on Norton Archers’ website: www.nortonarchers.co.uk G Images: Mike Hope NEWS 5 Nethermoss Archers’ first Hallowe’en shoot Pendle and Samlesbury Hallowe’en shoot organiser Wendy Aubrey gets top marks for her very grisly costume! THAT’S THE SPIRIT! Ghosts out in force as clubs celebrate while judge Lorraine Morris appeared to comes to archery in winter.We have had have dropped in straight from Hogwarts. to hire school and community halls for The club, in Nab’s Head Lane, indoor shooting, which meant members Samlesbury,Lancashire, has spent the last could really only practice their sport once few years raising funds for the new range a week in winter.With the new clubhouse, and building extension which was finished people will be able to come and shoot houls and ghosts put in an with the aid of a £50,000 grant from the whenever they want. appearance when the Bowmen Sport England Inspired Facilities Fund. “We are delighted with the way it has Gof Pendle and Samlesbury P&S chairman Diane Clarke said the all turned out, but we couldn’t have done celebrated the opening of their new new range would give club members it without the dedicated fundraising £82,000 indoor range with a spooky greater flexibility.“We have a fantastic field efforts of the committee and members.” Hallowe’en shoot. which is ideal for outdoor shooting in the And Nethermoss Archers got in on the Junior and senior members donned warmer months,”she said,“but until now act too with its first fancy dress and the full range of gruesome glad rags, we have been severely restricted when it handicap Hallowe’en shoot. G hen Harriet Kelsey joined 29 other 16 to 20-year-olds at a workshop HARRIET’S DATE WITH THE DUCHESS! Wdesigned to help them on their environment performance chamber Olympic or Paralympic journeys, the one which was set to humid Tokyo conditions. I thing she did not expect was to find spent an hour with Keri-Anne exploring herself standing next to a future Queen. self-awareness in elite athletes. But that’s what happened during the “Then in the afternoon we were visited athlete-testing day organised by by the Duchess of Cambridge, patron of SportsAid at the GSK Human SportsAid, who toured the facilities. She Performance Lab in London.And it was spoke to me and was interested to hear quite a day.The athletes took part in a about my archery career and Picture courtesy of SportsAid series of scientific assessments before aspirations. I explained how my joining a mentoring session with Olympic SportsAid funding helped with my their achievements and challenges with swimmer Keri-Anne Payne and having training and Academy costs.