February 2013 ~ 2020 Archery Blog

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Louise : Final session of the beginner's course

2:32 pm 2020 Archery 3 comments

After the start of last week's session it was fair to say I was quite nervous about how I'd start off this week. Would I hit the curtain again on my first shot? Would my arrow even stay inside the sports hall? These were all genuine worries, but my mind and body seemed to have got the hang of it. It was the last session yesterday. I...

Mark : First Competition! Norwich Stafford

12:49 pm 2020 Archery 4 comments

It’s a wintery afternoon on 13th January 2013 and I’m wandering around a near deserted college campus somewhere on the outskirts of Norwich. The sports hall, the venue for the Norfolk Bowmen UKRS (UK Record Status) Stafford, is proving to be difficult to find. I feel okay about this because as soon as I do find it I’m in unknown territory - the elusive world of the archery tournament. My quest to find the sports hall left me plenty of time to ponder the bigger questions in life: How will I know what to do? What if I don’t know the etiquette?...

Heidi : clearly we're doing a bit of work on the blog!

4:21 pm 2020 Archery No comments

Apologies if the blog is looking a bit messed up at the moment. Our fabulous web-man Daz is making some changes. Hopefully it will be fairly seemless and everything will be new and improved very soon. You can still keep up with what's happening on facebook and twitter. Happy Shooti...

Louise : Embedded reporting from Monday night Beginners Course Week 2!

12:20 pm 2020 Archery 3 comments

I stood on the line, remembering my T position and my reference point. I took a deep breath as I picked up my arrow and placed it on my bow. As I drew the string back I breathed in hard, then I let the string slip off my fingers and watched as the arrow sailed through the air, straight past the target on the boss and into the curtain at the...

Mark : From Novice to Competitor.

4:13 pm 2020 Archery 2 comments

Alternate title - I am a contender! Hello! I'm Mark and I've been shooting at 2020 Archery for the last two years. I first used a Recurve bow at a Have A Go stag event and enjoyed it so much that I went on to take a weekend course, joining the club shortly afterwards. After a few months of shooting I started to consider buying my own bow and set myself the goal of scoring 500 on a Portsmouth using a club bow, at which point I would shell out on the new kit. Exactly one year after my training weekend I was the proud owner of a Hoyt bow...

Pranava : What made me string a bow… (started shooting post-Olympics 2012)

5:51 pm 2020 Archery 2 comments

I always liked stories of beginnings. I am still writing mine in many ways but here is the very beginning. Before I walked into 2020 archery for a weekend beginners’ course, I had never seen a bow. I am not much of a sportsperson, actually not at all. I played as a child of course, but stupid games invented in the spur of a moment and I wasn’t very good at that either. If I see something hurling at me, my instinct is to flee, even if it is as tiny as a ping pong ball. Now, I would have thought that is natural but apparently not. So I grew...