K2 Indoor Shoot

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Marc, John, Liz, Heath, Simon and Jon competed in the Sussex / Southern Counties Regional Championships at the K2 centre in Crawley. They all shot a single Portsmouth round, and then Simon shot another Portsmouth before joining Liz, Heath and Jon to shoot in the FITA 18-metre Club Team Shoot - when he began to wonder whether it had been such a great idea to do three rounds back to back. Although his score suffered compared with his normal performance, the team aggregate was almost certainly better than any other combination of members would have totalled at the moment.

The team total was 2017, made up of Heath - 515, Jon - 514, Liz - 508, Simon - 480 which are evidently all Personal Bests! I should explain, it was the first time either Heath or Simon had shot the round, and Jon calls the FITA18 his Round of Doom because apart from this time he's always been below par. As for Liz, this is probably the best she's ever shot indoors, and the same may be true for Heath too (compound bow scores are handicapped by using the 'inner ten-ring'). The fifth member of the team was John who took the scores - and I noticed Andy Galley from Crawley, now one of the regulars at our shoots, stuck with the team through the shoot helping to pull Heath's compound arrows from the very hard bosses.

This was the second Regional Champs at the K2, and for the third year both the SCAS and the Sussex Indoor shoots have increased the number of entrants, this is now a seriously major event with nearly 400 entrants, and SCAS are committed to continuing there. It's great to have such a good shoot on our doorstep, even if some of us get involved with running the show.

Rob was a Field Captain again, and Rod was taking photos through the day and helped on the change-overs and lost most of the skin off his fingers trying to pull Heath's arrows.

RESULTS:
Name    -  Southern Counties - Sussex County
Liz    (Recurve)      -       10   -   4
Jon   (Recurve)      -       21   -  5
Heath   (Compound)  -   23  - 13 
Simon   (Recurve)  -      41   -  15
John   (Recurve)      -     55   -  20
Marc   (Recurve)      -    63   -  26
TEAM     -    10  -  8