K2 - An 'Acceptable' Solution

This was quite a K2 for the Club. After Liz being Longbow Regional Champion last year, Doug has polished off his first 12 months shooting Barebow by becoming Regional Champion too. And of course the Sussex Indoor B/B champion at the same time, and winning the double round medal too. Liz wasn't quite on top form and came in as Second Lady Longbow in the Regional contest by a margin of only 16 points, but held on to her Sussex title. Marc was Sussex Junior Recurve Champion and Andy was 3rd Sussex Longbow, ahead of last year's second-placeman. Iain was on great form with 566 in the Portsmouth and 534 in the FITA 18.
As for our Indoor shooting buddies, Gavin - probably still affected by the eye injury he sustained just over a week ago - shot 585 in the Portsmouth but was beaten into second place by Gergo's 593, they swapped their order from the Nationals.  The Sussex Record for the Portsmouth Round is 592 set almost 25 years ago by Tommy Hodder, which is also Gavin's personal best, so Gergo was looking quietly delighted.  And Phil came third in the Barebow.
We entered three teams in the FITA18 session, and for the first time got among the Medals with Third Place in the Sussex-only Division. BUT this is a controversial result because the Team, Arundown Accidentals, included a substitute who isn't from Sussex. But what a Substitute, we got ourselves Tomasz Maliszewski who is an extremely useful archer over from Poland teaching at Winchester College, and trains their archery team. When I was handed the score sheets to read out for the medals, the team (Jenny, Liz, Tomasz and Jon) was there in third place, the results team hadn't spotted the substitution.
I guess we can keep quiet about this until the Objection comes in - then who cares if it does, because the next team in line waiting to move up is Arundown Acceptables - Marc, Iain, Martin and Craig.
Our other Team was Arundown Axeman, the only all-Barebow team in the hall, but you'd never have guessed from their Scores and placing. Max, shooting in his first-ever tournament broke the Junior 'Open' Record for the FITA18 round, and Graham, shooting barebow in a tournament for the first time scored a very creditable 420, only 22 behind Phil. Doug was out front with 502, 20 points off the County Record.

ACCIDENTALS

ACCEPTABLES

AXEMEN

Doug's perfect end on 40cm face

And another cracking 10-9-9 Group

Andy at Work

Look at the background

Liz photo-bombing

Well two can play at that game....

What's going on?

Cranial Amplification of course! Simon reckons the radio remote works better if you use your head as an aerial. In my case it's more like Cavity Resonance...

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