The Obstacle is the Path
To get better in archery you need motivation. To get you on the line, shooting the arrows, putting in the practice. We have written about methods of motivation before but here is a slightly...
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Goals for the Winter Season
As we move from outdoors to indoors (Wednesday 4th September), we say goodbye to shooting 122cm faces, long distances, AGB's 252 awards and rain .. And hello to 40 and 60cm faces, 18m and...
Summer of Badges
So here we are in the "summer". Archery is outside where it belongs. We are shooting DISTANCE - no longer a sport suitable for telephone boxes. Faces are no longer postage stamps as we...
More Badges!
You may have seen some of our more .. err .. "seasoned" archers wandering round with a club badge on their quivers, hats or chest guards. These badges, once an extremely common sight in...
Summer Shooting Goals
Now we have escaped the confines of the hall and are settling into the great outdoors ... its time to re-introduce GA's favourite summer pastime ... 252 Badge Hunting. The 252 round is a...
You Gotta Get Up and Try Try Try!
A few months ago we covered a story about an experienced GA archer struggling to achieve a club badge. For the GA gold indoor award with a recurve, you need to shoot 270 out...
It's a Mystery...
One of GA's experienced recurve archers has been chasing the indoor gold badge for a disturbingly long time. He needs 270 from 30 arrows on a 40cm face. Every time he shoots for it,...
Fast Start to Indoors
Currently, we are still finding our feet and drying out having just returned indoors after 18 months in the very moist Glasgow climate. One archer however, decided "fast start, best start" and raced to...
