The Curse of Robin Hood

In a fraction of a second of mindless wanton destruction, Lee, one of the beginners in the Beginners Course that finished on Saturday, turned two perfectly useful arrows into one useless Javelin. It's just as well this kind of thing doesn't happen very often.

We've run four Beginners Courses this Summer, two on Friday evenings and two on Saturdays. Once again we've been extremely impressed by the talent and skill of the participants, but we've only got pictures from the Saturday sessions, probably because they were held in a better-lit hall, and outdoors part of the time. So here are some pictures of some notable moments : All-Gold Ends by Kris and Campbell (there were others that weren't photographed) and lots of Hits on the 'Wand' which was set at 60 yards - and even the Juniors were threatening the Wand with some very near misses indeed. Jeff was the star with four hits.  
As usual, Click on any picture to blow it up full-size in a sort of Gallery show

Albion League Decider - 6th September

Our League Division was settled by a 3 way shoot between Hastings, Crawley and ourselves, hosted by Crawley Archers at Hazelwick School. The weather was unusually kind, which may have 'thrown' the two seaside clubs, being more used to a stiff sea-breeze when shooting. Another reason that Crawley came out on top was that they fielded five Compound bows, and two were in their team. It didn't help us that their top scorer had represented GB at the Olympics about five times...
But, we were not the lowest scoring team, we came home in second place which was largely thanks to Duggie shooting  a new County Barebow record as well as picking up 180 handicap points, ending ahead of everyone, including Pauline Swift with her Compound. Iain put in an excellent 826, the highest recurve Albion score of the day, with Liz and Graham giving good support adding up to a team score of 3143, well past the 3000 barrier.
Final Scores were Crawley 3218, Arundown 3143 and Hastings 3069

In the two other Sussex Leagues shot at the same time, Andy was the sole Longbow on the field, and clocked up a Personal Best Albion of 342. Three of our Juniors shot in the Junior League, Marc scored 858, Lance scored 523 and Max scored 427. Novice member Mike shot a very creditable 602 Junior Windsor