Tentative thread here but does anyone on here do Archery ? I did a course a few months back and have now joined a club. I had a major fuck up in my form the last month or so, so took another lesson and now I'm back where I was. Maybe I'm the lone archer of SC but if not, feel free to post whatever you may be thing/asking/struggling with etc etc etc.
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Did archery once as a kid and absolutely loved it.
Don't know why I've never been back...think I should!
Don't know why I've never been back...think I should!
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I was an instructor for about six years, GNAS qualified leader. Sadly it expired about two years ago and i wasn't in a position to renew, but hopefully with my new job i'll be able to rectify that.
Until then, my record has more than 400 hours of tutoring, all voluntary, with groups from 6 year olds to 80+ year old wheelchair users. I keep a straw bale at my 'rents place so i can shoot a few down the garden in the summer.
It's an SP Pro, with a pair of mid-range glass/carbon limbs, and bare other than a small weight and a soft-ass button. Yes, i know my elbow is high, every single bastard who's ever pulled a bow and has seen this tells me, but i do pull high then settle - this is, technically, mid-draw, so... yeah, ballsacks.
Until then, my record has more than 400 hours of tutoring, all voluntary, with groups from 6 year olds to 80+ year old wheelchair users. I keep a straw bale at my 'rents place so i can shoot a few down the garden in the summer.
It's an SP Pro, with a pair of mid-range glass/carbon limbs, and bare other than a small weight and a soft-ass button. Yes, i know my elbow is high, every single bastard who's ever pulled a bow and has seen this tells me, but i do pull high then settle - this is, technically, mid-draw, so... yeah, ballsacks.
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My brother, when he was alive, used to fire a composite bow but his wife used a long bow and was Scottish champion 20-30 odd years ago.
Never fired one myself but they used to go away regularly for weekend shoots in their towing caravan and thoroughly enjoyed it. They lived in Waltham Abbey at the time and were members of Broxbourne Bowman.
Never fired one myself but they used to go away regularly for weekend shoots in their towing caravan and thoroughly enjoyed it. They lived in Waltham Abbey at the time and were members of Broxbourne Bowman.
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Pointed the bow the wrong way?My game needs a bit of work.
It's a mistake you only make once ...
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That was my trainer. It's his own fault really.
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Haha, that was literally the first thing I thought when I saw the pic
That's amazing though, the gnas instructor part. I took a lesson on Monday in an attempt to sort out some weird habit I've picked up that sends 1 arrow every 6 about a metre to the right. Apparently my wrist was the culprit... seems to have worked so far.
Mind you that's the dangerous thing with archery, as soon as you solve one thing something else goes tits upS
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Nah, you could wear one of the chest things female archers wear.
I have a piercing in the chest area.. never, ever twang that with a bow string... it can be quite sore...
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It's great that you can try it out for fun but it does bug me that they don't provide the proper gear. It hurts like hell after a while if you've got no tab ( finger guard ) or you ping your arm a few times. It'd probably put people off to an extent if you get the impression that archery about coming home with your finger tips hanging off and a huge bruise down your arm.
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Never used a tab, i have manly hands
would never shoot without an arm guard though. I did, for one session, and i wasn't so fond of having a six inch section of my forearm go blue and purple for a week or so. Second worst* bruise i ever got, hurt like fuckery.Dougal was in Indonesia though, and that looks like a pretty rural location - i'd imagine it's not a particularly heavy pull either, them Indian-style bows are really quite forgiving and light, so you don't get tired so quickly and begin to "sag"
*first = pole dancing on a tube train while shit-faced drunk after seeing Carter USM play - clattered the old gooch and turned both balls, the old fella and a sizeable portion of both butt cheeks into a version of the blue man group that you'd not take your nana to see
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