The Archery Competition come-eth

Further to my last posting (I really must do this a bit more often - like once in a blue moon -  ), yesterday was Laura's first Archery competition.

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Firstly there are no pictures. It was pointed out that I may have had to engaged in discussions, signing s and the like as there were other youngsters there (Child protection and all that), and it was just so complex - just in case!!

So the camera stayed in the car. As you can see, I was a little disappointed, but I can also understand other parents concerns.

Anyway, back to the proper story .

We signed Laura in, and got her ready to go - in her first competition. Neither of us knew what the ground rules were, as such. Neither of us knew what went next, but luckily there were other members of our club, the Anchor Bowmen of Scunthorpe to help us out.

Before I knew it, I was asked "Dave, have you got your bow with you?"

Of course I did, but I'd really only brought it along because all the tools, membership cards and the like, were in the pockets.

  "Why?" came back the answer.  

I'm sure most of you could work out what happened next - within a couple of minutes, I too, was in the Recurve Competition, whilst Laura was sat, waiting for the start of the Juniors Compound Competition.

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I shall not bore you with the minutiae of the day, but we had never fired so many arrows between us, let alone on our own, in a single day.

I was shattered at the end of the day 

Laura was shattered at the end of the day. 

To top all that off, in the middle of the afternoon, we had an "equipment failure" on Laura's bow, which, thanks to the kind assistance of some of the other archers, was resolved fairly quickly.  

And, in full "proud Dad" mode I saw her recover from 6 missed arrows because of the failure, to recover the last end with several Bull's, red and a couple of inner blues. To top that off, several of the other parents there said how well laura had done to recover from the "problems" and just get on and finish.

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The day finished with myself, with my first quite respectable score (or I think so anyway of 487 out 600 and 450 out of 600) and Laura, in her very first competition , winning her section - even after having to fight her bow along the way.  

Seemed a pretty good day to me in the end after all.

Maybe I'm getting better?

Hi Guys,

just a short and (hopefully) quick posting today.

Wednesday night is, at the moment, Indoors Archery training.

And it was a good job too.

From the safety of the Sports Hall you could hear how heavy the rain outside was falling 

  As I mentioned last week, Laura is slowly building up-to to her first competition in a couple of weeks.

As there are better "coaches" at the club than I, that practice was left in their capable hands (many thanks to Vicky and Steve).

So, as we have now wandered indoors for our evening meetings - I was left pretty much to do my own thing as such (Mr Tall and Lanky - our Liam, was also there for once - as he had injured his leg. But he just seemed to mop about - so i left him to it).

Anyway - to the bit I want to crow about.

I know this may seem a bit "self congratulatory", and it is, but I'm really quite pleased with my self.

With new sight setup , ready to go, I fired off the the first end of arrows.

At 20m's I got several Yellows, and a couple of blues (which isn't to bad for me). But then the night got better and better. Five's and Sixes in the yellow zone. The arrows where grouped nicely together (in fact too nicely together - the evening cost me a couple of flights that I still have to repair)

    I'm so pleased that the whole thing seems to be coming together. 

Mind you - next week will do another thing.As will the next Saturday practice, as it is both outdoors, and at longer, differing distances.

But you can't take the smile off my face today.

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