IMPORTANT
NEWS
For
the All British Field Championships 2008 organised by Loch Cuan Bowman to be
held at Ballywalter Park, Ballywalter, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
The
English Archery Federation will fund the entry fee for the members of the
England Team and a maximum of £60.00 per night per room for 2 nights for
accommodation
Each
archer to organise their own
accommodation
and the English Archery Federation will refund the fee but must have the
receipts for accounting purposes.
The
Casswells have also agreed to sponsor the England Field shirts for 2008.
If you would like further information please contact Eddie Newman at ednewman@hotmail.co.uk
England
Field Archery Team 2007
The
2007 field Archery season has started well with
The 3 shoots selected for the challenge this year are:-
The winners are the Nation with the highest total points tally at the end of the 3 shoots
Home
Nations Field Archery Competition 2007
The 2007 “Home Nations”
field archery competition was held on May 26th & 27th.
The Home Nations is
always held as part of the GNAS All British Field Championships, this year it
was hosted by Pentref Bowman in
The
team representing
Team
members were:-
Compound Unlimited = Steve Gooden
Compound Unlimited = Peter Frost (Substitution with Freestyle Recurve)
Freestyle Recurve = Jon Shales
Compound Barebow = Jane Rees (Substitution with Barebow Recurve)
Barebow Recurve = Tim Mundon
Traditional = Adam Stevens
Longbow = Joe Lloyd
All Team members entries were funded by the English Archery Federation (EAF)
The
shoot
The competition was held over 2 different courses, one unmarked distances and the other marked. The sited disciplines were shooting the unmarked on day one and the marked course on day two, both courses were very challenging with the course designers using all the slopes possible. The marked course was incorporating the use of the mountainous side of Pentref and the unmarked course was using the cross slope areas in and around the quarry.
The weather helped make the shooting very challenging as well, on day one the sun did not really shine very much but it didn’t rain, on day two we get a little rain and wind but it could have been a lot worse.
As a result of the course a lot
of archers did not shoot as high a score as normal but all members of the
Our longbow archer Joe Lloyd managed to shoot a arrow head award on day 2 with 212, this is the highest unmarked score I have seen for a longbow in 4 years of shooting most of the GNAS field shoots, and especially when done on a day of wind and rain at Pentref, one of the hardest courses we shoot in the UK.
Result
The
result is purely based on the team which shoots the highest totals score over
the two day competition.
“YES”
All team members performed extremely well during the two days and it was a fantastic deserved result for them, most of the team also had individual rewards in their discipline.
The
Photos
of team members will be in the Gallery page soon (webmaster)
Dearne Valley Shoot went very well, all members of the team shot very well over the weekend with several winning their style as well as contributing to the overall points tally for the team.
We were very lucky with the weather over the weekend.
Saturday was bright and sunny and quite warm; a little bit of wind on one side of the course but not enough to cause any problems.
Sunday was not bright at first and also a little cold, the wind had also picked up causing a few of the longer shots to be a bit more challenging than normal but everyone coped very well. Just as we left the course the sun broke through to warm us up whilst waiting for the results.
Result
Wales
2985
From
left to right
Back
row
Eddie Newman Team Manager
Andrew Rees, Steve Ithurralde, Adam Stevens, Peter Frost,
Front
row
Jane Rees, Jon Shales, Simon Froggatt
Pentref
Spring Shoot 14 &
The Pentref Spring shoot was very challenging as expected with the course designers introducing several new shots, which had not been seen before, as well as using the mountain and the quarry to make the most of the up, down and across slope shots.
The team still worked hard and managed to shoot very well. Unfortunately we did not have a full team for this shoot; we were unable to fill the position for “Traditional”, a recurve archer shooting wooden arrows, the only substitution for this is a longbow archer but only one English longbow archer was present at the shoot.
The
weather this weekend was fantastic if you liked the sun; it was glorious
sunshine from first thing Saturday morning and was still shining when we left at
Result
England
3096
After 2 rounds
Total 6667
Wales
3442 After 2
rounds
Total 6427
From
left to right
Back
row
Eddie Newman Team Manager & Peter Frost
Middle
row
Shaun Newman, Andrew Rees, Jon Shales, Stephen Gooden
Front
row
Jane Rees
We
would like to thank the organisers of both shoots as they agreed the use of
their shoot for the 3 shoot challenge, we do try and hold one in the north and
south of
The