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Everyone considers it a great improvement. The sportshall is warmer, seems brighter, has been given a lick of paint and has nice new ladies and gents toilets.

The entrance is now infront of the shooting line, so entry and exit are limited to the time inbetween ends of shooting.

We have been asked by management to keep the place clean and tidy. No black soled shoes please and take your rubbish home with you.

Apologies for the inconvenience

They will inform us when the sportshall is officially reopened

Today was the Worcester round of Trackside’s Indoor league. Kevin Hughes took first place with 287 & 282 = 569 for the double round. 

This gave Kevin a new PB for the single & the double rounds. New club record for the double, & new county records for both the single & double. To be confirmed

 

Gary Griffin had 2 bad releases in the first end of the morning & put 2 arrows in the same target face which lost him 7 points. Of his remaining 55 arrows one was a 4 & the other 54 were all x or 5, ending on 292 points & taking 1st place in the gents compound.

Florence Firth won 1st in the ladies recurve.

 

Another good day all round for Grimsby Archers.

Everyone was sent a reminder by email or letter recently.

So that we could send the gnas "returns" in, anyone who has not paid has now been struck off the gnas list. So, if you pay your subs late, we have to raise a whole new set of paperwork for you, causing additional postage and frustration for our treasurer, so you may be asked to pay an additional admin fee of £3.

If you are suffering financial hardship, please contact the treasurer.

You can pay by cash or cheque at any of our practise meetings, or by paypal e-invoice on request.

Grimsby Archers is now on twitter.

Kevin Hughes won the Gents recurve section, whilst Rosemarie Cawkwell won the Lady's longbow section and Graham Crampin took the Gents Compound title.

Perfect!

Some members expressed a wish to get practise and sight marks at indoor distances before we lose use of the sports hall for the refurbishment work.

This is, in the long term, good news for us because, as well as having a nicer sports hall to shoot in, it also secures the future of the sports hall for some time as they wouldnt be spending money on it if they were going to demolish it.

Unfortunately the work is likely to take 6 weeks, starting in the beginning of October. This means we wont be able to use the sportshall for a few weeks during October and November. 

We are determined that archery should continue as normal. St Andrews are looking into the possibility of us using the old Lower School sports hall.

Failing that, we'll just have to put up with the weather and shoot outdoors.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

More information here when available

All members welcome. Parents of junior members are welcome to attend.

Please notify the club secretary in writing (email accepted) of any nominations for the positions on the committee or any items for the agenda that you wish to be discussed, by Tuesday 6th September.

Longbow archer Rosemarie described the conditions at last weekend's Lincolnshire County Championships as "very wet".

She said "I didnt score as well as I'd hoped I would, finishing with 130 points mostly because of the rain"

Meanwhile, Kevin Hughes said "I think the rain gave me an advantage. Most archers dont like shooting in the rain, but it doesnt bother me at all"

Both Rosemarie and Kevin have added the County Championship titles to this year's haul of county titles, both already holding the county indoor championship and county "windsor" titles in their respective categories.

Kevin attributed his recent improvement to some good quality help from his coach, Andrew Harrison and lots of hard practise.

Rosemarie, who was reigning county champion from last year said she was looking forwards to the 4th and final county title, the County FITA shoot, held at Louth next month. She said "If I can win the County FITA as well, that'll be the whole series in one season"

The sessions are voluntary for archers who want help and advice on improving their shooting.

The first part of each session we'll cover a set subject as a group, while the second part will be one to one coaching or question and answer. Over the coming months, we'll try to address anything that you are interested in. Basics, equipment, tuning, technique, competitions, mental game.

So, if this sounds like you, turn up. 

First session will be July 9th.

Saturday sessions will remain unchanged at St Andrews College, as will the field archery section

This essential document can be found on the events page

Congratulations to everyone who took part. Shame more didnt compete.

The trophies will be awarded at our presentation to be announced soon.

Around the middle of January, Kevin Hughes told friends about a dream he had had.

He explained: "In it, it was a score tie for 1st place between me and Ian Prescott, it came down to the most 10’s, but before the final result was given I woke up.

 

When we had finished shooting for the day and before the results had been I told Graham and Colin Elves about the dream ( they seamed very sceptical about it ) as I am sure anyone would be. Even I wasn't completely sure the dream would come true."

For Kevin, this years county indoor champs is a dream come true.

The final results were:

3rd – Roger Sale (Independant), Score 1102

 

2nd – Ian Prescott (Lincoln Archers), 120 hits, Score 1134 with 65 10’s 

 

1st – Kevin Hughes (Grimsby Archers), 120 hits, Score 1134 with 66 10's

Kevin said: "Spooky or what!!. Those scores were too close for comfort. But a win is a win. That makes me a VERY happy chappy. Won 2 years in a row. 

I just need to dream about the winning lottery numbers now so I can buy enough land for a club indoor and outdoor range."

Congratulations Kevin

 

Donations of food for the buffet are welcome.

The round will be a Worcester (black face with a white center spot scoring 5 points for a spot and 4,3,2,1 for the outer rings. 60 arrows, shot 5 arrows at a time.)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our members and archers everywhere.

Instead, we will open Monday 27th December 2010, Sunday 2nd January 2011 and Monday 3rd January 2011. 

There are some good offers in there, so if your  in the market for a new bow or piece of kit, take a look

If we dont get enough people saying they want to shoot on any particular day, we'll just stay closed, so if you want to shoot, you must let me know

His qualification took 18 months of study and practical work ending with a weekend of assessment. Andrew had to work with one archer as a case study towards his qualification. His chosen archer, Kevin Hughes won the county indoor championships and achieved his bowman classification, both directly attributable to the work he did with Andrew Harrison.

Andrew first tried archery on holiday at Center Parcs. 

He said "I really enjoyed it, so when I came back I initially found a course at Grimsby Leisure Center and then went along to Grimsby Archers – my love of the sport just grew from there.

The image shows (left to right) Andrew Harrison; Tom Musgrove, Assessor (Senior Coach); Barry Molsom, Course Tutor (Senior Coach); Sam Newton, Candidate County Coach; Mike Wood, Candidate County Coach; Andy Arnold, Observer (Candidate Senior Coach); Tom Williamson, Assessor (Senior Coach and outgoing President of Archery GB).

Recurve archers Freda Dunkley, Rory Campbell and Kevin Hughes; Compound archers Joanne Findley, Graham Crampin and Colin Elves; Longbow archers Rosemarie Cawkwell, Patricia Newman and Ian Smith all travelled to Welbeck Archers ground in Nottinghamshire to represent our county at this year's event.

Overall, the Lincolnshire recurve team came 2nd. 

Despite shooting really well in the face of strong opposition, the compound team came 4th following a disastrous equipment failure that resulted in the eventual retirement of team manager Graham.

The county was able to field a longbow team for the first time in several years finishing the day in 4th position.

Full team managers report at http://www.lincsarchery.co.uk

Kevin took second place in the gents recurve, scoring the highest score from Lincolnshire

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Thank you to everyone who supported this event and congratulations to Samuel for his hard work.