We need to talk about … the Glasgow League
Hope I’ve given it long enough to talk about this now, but for anyone still traumatised by the outcome of this year’s Glasgow League, look away now … GA takes part in the Glasgow...
Tagged: competition
Gossip behind the Tent Line: The Cost of Missing
A few weeks ago we had an article on the big indoor competition - Las Vegas 2026. We noted the fact that last year there was, over the weekend, $30,000 dollars of damage done...
Summer Season 2026
Looking outside at some of the weather we're currently suffering, its hard to believe we're just TWO WEEKS away from going outside for the "Summer" season. As of April, the outdoors of Whitecraigs beckons...
Vegas 2026
The Vegas Shoot is arguably the largest and most prestigious indoor archery tournament in the world. Taking place currently in March each year in the city of Las Vegas, its a competition where anything...
Dealing with Adversity
Adversity is never very far from your archery especially in competition. In practice you have time to fix things but in competition ... not so much. You've prepped for a shoot. You've got your...
Making Archery Watchable
According to World Archery (WA), there are 30million archers in the world spread over 156 federations and that's just the ones WA know about*. Very few of them watch archery because, lets be honest...
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...
One Arrow One Life
One of the great things in modern archery is the head to head. Two archers shooting against each other. Three arrow ends, highest score takes 2 points, draw 1 point, 0 if you lose....
What Happens during a Competition
This weekend we are hosting an American competition in celebration of the 4th of July. However, we can guess that many new archers will be a little lost, having no experience about what happens...
Glasgow League - Rumble in the Time Capsule
Buckle up people, this article may get ranty. Archery is a sport where the difference between a high score and a not so high score .. winning and losing .. can be pretty fine....
Glasgow League - Seconds out .. Round Four
Round four of the Glasgow indoor league was back to where we kicked off three short months ago - Eastwood High School, Newton Mearns. The 9am Sunday start would have the competitors out their...
Glasgow League - Half Way
The conclusion of the third leg of the Glasgow League would mark the half way point in the inaugural 2024-25 season. This round was to be shot once again at The Time Capsule in...
Glasgow League heating up
The Glasgow League competition has settled into a comfortable monthly meet, shoot and gossip session for the various teams in and around the city. Seven clubs are on the books as competing and to...
Getting your Competition on
One of the great features of archery is competition and competitions. This can be against yourself (personal bests), mano a mano (head to heads) or shooting a round at a formal shoot and being...
Archery and Ladders
There's a bit of excitement set to kick off after Wednesday night at the club. John has restarted the club ladder competition, and the usual suspects are all scrabbling for their slots by shooting...
How Olympic archery works
Archery at the Paris 2024 Olympics kicked off on July 25th with the individual ranking rounds and will switch to the head to head rounds to determine the medals the following week. But what...
Bow International
So, there is a sort of monthly** magazine all about archery. Its called Bow International which was first published in 1995. And while there are quite a few publications for bow hunting in the...
Climbing the Ladder
Hopefully, most of you at GA are aware we have a ladder competition running right now. The rules are pretty simple even if John has done his best to make it hard. Shoot a...
