Summer Metrics

Just for a change, I think, the ‘July Nationals’ postal tournament has changed to Summer Metrics and can now be shot in July and August. Details of the tournament are given on page 5.

You may also notice that we have changed our club round on 26th July to a Short Metric round to fall in line with the postal tournament.

As I write, we have 14 entries for the Short Metric, but only 3 are juniors. This for you so come on, join in and get a score. If you get a better score before or later, we’ll use that for the postal round.

If new members can’t shoot their age distance, pick a distance you can and join in anyway we don’t have to submit a score if you shoot below your age. That also applies to parent archers.

Junior National Outdoor Championships 2014

Good shooting to Alex, Grace, Emily M, Emily O, Hannah, and Kieran at the Junior National Outdoor Championships this coming weekend. It’s a hard 2 day shoot with a 350 mile or so round trip, but in a fantastic atmos-phere. It’s been described as a 70 target field with a 3 row tent city.

The weather is generally good so let’s hope it stays the same.

Enjoy the event and shoot well, but when you return, I will be asking for good news, some photographic evidence and a report. 2011 team with Maurice the Mascot

Correction from May 2014 newsletter.

When identifying the new committee, I stated that Mike Robinson was the new Child Protection Officer. This should have read Mick Robinson. The same person, but wrong name.

Apologies for any confusion.

www.mayflowerarchers.co.uk

Mayflower Junior Archers

Junior News Issue No. 30 July 2014

Inside this issue:

Tournament Round up 2

Tournament Round up UK Masters

3

National Team champs FITA Field AGB Progress awards

4

County top 10 Records & Awards Midsummer Metrics

5

Academy report 6

Award schemes 7

Tournament Diary 8

Club Diary National Awards

Back page

What a brilliant start to the outdoor season for some of our more enthusiastic members. New county records are being set and others broken, six gold ends and Rose awards being claimed then you’ve been winning medals. It’s a few years since so many have done so well. Keep up the good work.

Don’t forget to claim your Rose award at a York or Bristol round or an English Cross and FITA Star from a FITA or Metric round. Also check the county re-cords list to see if you can claim again.

Welcome all our new members.

We think we are a friendly club with something for everybody and we will get to know you all in the near future.

If you haven’t already been given a copy, ask for a free booklet Welcoming you to Mayflower Archers. It is a guide to new archers to offer some advice regard-ing starting archery, equipment selection, rounds, rules and competitions.

Junior sessions are 2 to 4 pm every Saturday and Monday 4 to 6.30 pm in the summer where we advise you what’s going on and assist in your development.

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Tournament Round up

Havering Youth Games 19th April

Fantastic day out I’m told with several winning medals and other awards, then the team trophy as well. Brilliant!

Gold medals Grace Butterfield and Sean Hale. Silver medal Alex Body Bronze medal Emily Owens Best Gold Kieran Greaves Team Trophy Grace, Alex and Kieran

Grace also won the shoot off prize in the mini knock out rounds and Sean claims his six gold end award.

Well done and thank you to Ethan Barber, Matt Reynolds and Callum Sheppard for their contribution by representing team Mayflower.

Noak Hill Archers Record Status Westerns 31st May

A successful day for Mayflower members with quite a few medals, also county records claim.

Short Western Boys Alex Body 1st and Kieran Greaves 3rd with a ‘Well done’ to Ethan Barber Short Western Girls Grace Butterfield 2nd and Emily Owens 3rd Junior Western Callum Sheppard 4th Emily Mallion 1st and county record claim

Martin Vidgeon-Hart won 1st place shooting Long Western as did Graham Owens and Mark Robinson both shooting Western. So good news all round for our seniors as well.

West Essex Invitation shoot 3rd May

Another grand day out for Mayflower. This is one of my favourite tournaments, with the Havering Youth for young archers of all ages and experience. Both are excellent for gaining experience with child friendly Judges.

Recurve 1, Grace Butterfield, 3 Alex Body, 6 Kieran Greaves, 9 Emily Owens, 14 Callum Sheppard, 32 Hannah Godden, 36 Ethan Barber

Compound 2nd Sean Hale, 4th Emily Short, 5th Emily Mallion

Team Trophy 1st Mayflower, Grace, Alex, Kieran and Emily Owens

Gentlemen of all ages, it is considered courteous to remove your hat when receiving an award. Please do so.

West Essex Bowmen Junior Charity shoot 21st June

“On Saturday the 21st of June Mayflower Archers went to West Essex for a charity shoot that will help a 4-year-old walk named Freddy who will get his operation in August 2014. At the competition, nobody spent any money to support this as bakers, Barclays etc, sponsored it.

It was also Alex Body’s Birthday on the day that the competition was held. It was a wonderful day with the weather on our side.”

Kieran Greaves

Unfortunately, I don’t have any results. Roger

Important Reminder

Always check the newsletter for important closing dates. While we can’t publish closing dates for every tournament, we do try to advise readers of some important submission dates for Archery GB events.

If you’re not sure of anything, ask a member of the junior team. If they don’t know, they will find out or advise where to look. Mayflower Archers junior team do our best to assist all our members.

Remember also, the onus is on archers to determine any submission or closing date so the other place to look is the Archery GB website or contact the AGB junior Chairman.

Tournament Round up - continued

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Essex County Junior Target Championships 7th June

“On Saturday 7th June there was a competition held at Noak Hill archers. It was a 12 dozen round and very tiring! The weather was cloudy at first then heavy showers. It was good fun shooting in the rain! Then the rain stopped and we had glorious sunshine. There were lots of good archers from different clubs so we needed to try really hard.

Finally, everybody got good scores and some of the team won Rose awards. And possibly a new county record was set :)

Whilst we were there it was Hannah's 16th birthday and so we all sang happy birthday and embarrassed her :) We had birthday cake and it was really nice.

Morris our team mascot came along too! Emily Owens baked her famous brownies and, as always, they were very yummy!

Well done to everyone at Mayflower and I wish you luck for any competitions that may be coming up.”

By Emily Short Bristol 2 recurve Hannah Godden 2nd Alex Body 3rd Kieran Greaves 5th Bristol 3 recurve Emily Owens 2nd Compound Emily Mallion 2nd and Gold Rose claim Bristol 4 recurve Grace Butterfield 2nd Compound Sean Hale 2nd Bristol 5 Compound Emily Short 1st, County record, Six Gold end and Gold Rose claims.

On top of all that Mayflower recurve team were 3rd with again, Grace, Alex and Kieran

Then the compound team were 2nd with Emily Mallion, Emily Short and Sean Hale.

Brilliant day out for Mayflower juniors!

UK Masters, Lilleshall 7/8th June

Sophie Brown and James Howell are now both seniors and their scores, submitted as juniors, qualify them for the ‘UK Masters’. Just in case you were interested, I thought I’d demonstrate what Mayflower juniors can do once they’ve ‘grown up’. Remember, they follow in the steps of Mike Judd and Phil Glover to name but two more recent former Mayflower juniors.

Sophie qualified 9th in the ranking rounds to beat 24th placed Kim Swetman 148 to 127 in the 1/16th head to head eliminations, then beat Linda Townsend 145 to 140 in the 1/8th eliminations to meet Danielle Brown in the ¼ finals. Danni as you may remember, was the Paralympic Gold medallist in 2012. Unfortunately for Sophie, Danni won 143 to 137 to end Sophie’s brilliant run, but she finished 7th overall.

James qualified 8th, got a bye in the 1/32 eliminations to win 146 to 140 over Chris Horan in the 1/16th elimi-nation rounds then win again after a close battle with Alistair Whittingham 146 to 141 only for an equipment failure put him out of the ¼ finals against Jake Burn to finish 8th overall.

No matter whether they won or not, they were both competing against the best in the country and did themselves justice at a very competitive tournament.

FITA Field Archery experience

FITA Field is a different type of archery, shot mainly through natural woodland where every target is a different distance and at a different face size.

Coming up in October are the Essex County FITA Field Championships and by request, I’ve been asked if I would take a group to Panther Bowhunters in advance of the County Champs for you to try it out and get some sight marks.

The dates I have in mind are 23rd August and 20th September. If you are really lucky, I’ll do both.

If you are interested please let me know and I’ll arrange a visit. I’ll give the rules and format in advance and you will have a guide with you. Just let me know soon if you want to try Field Archery and which date.

If you find you like FITA Field, you can enter the tournament on 5th October.

Roger Glover

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National County Team Championships, Lilleshall 28/29th June

As it says, a national competition for county teams. Each county enters a team of 3 archers in each disci-pline, male, female, compound, recurve and longbow. Saturday is a 720 ranking round followed by team head to head rounds then a team FITA round on Sunday. Points are gained for each position and awards are won on points not accumulated. I.e. pointless wins; less points the higher the position.

Why do I think you are interested? Well six Mayflower members were selected to represent the Essex and Suffolk teams and four were former Mayflower juniors.

Essex & Suffolk teams Lady compound, Daisy Clark, Helen Harris & Sophie Brown Ranked 2nd (2 points), 4th in head to head matches (4 points) and 1st (1 point) in the FITA. Total 7 points, 2nd overall losing to Surrey with 6 points.

Gent compound, Phil Glover James Howell & James Sinclair Ranked 3rd, (3), 1st in head to head matches (1) and 1st (1) in the FITA. Total 5 points, 1st overall beating Hampshire with 7 points.

Lady recurve, (no Mayflower members). Ranked 2nd (2), 2nd in head to head matches (2) and were 2nd in the FITA (2). Total 6 points 2nd overall losing to Warwickshire with 3 points.

Gent recurve, Tim Davies, Ian Harris, Mike Judd Ranked 6th (6), 1st in head to head matches (1) and 1st in the FITA (1). Total 8 points, 1st overall beating Gloucestershire with 10 points.

Gents Longbow, (No Mayflower members) 5th, 5th and 5th. Total 15, 5th overall.

Ladies Longbow, no team selected from Essex & Suffolk.

All in all, a good day out for Essex & Suffolk clubs and a nice one for Mayflower.

Archery GB Progress Awards

Now under new Management

Kerry Owens has agreed organise this national award scheme for Mayflower Archers.

The scheme is for younger archer to develop their skills and can also be used as an adult beginner incentive. Badges will be awarded by target face colours, white, black, blue, red and gold according to scores attained.

Scores can be attained in or outdoors and vary according to age, sex, bowstyle and distance shot.

All you need do is to make a note of your 3 dozen scores and submit them to claim the appropriate award. At any round you shoot save your first 3 dozen score, or you may shoot a score at a club meeting (save them on a score sheet) then send then to Kerry at kerry.burnettowens@gmail.com or see her at club.

Sounds easy doesn’t it? Then get collecting and sending to claim your award.

County Records and Awards Claimed

Mayflower Juniors are doing well for records lately and it’s great for personal satisfaction.

Emily Short u12 Compound Sh Jun Windsor, Short Jun National, Bristol 5, 6 gold end, Gold Rose

Emily Mallion u16 Compound Junior Western, Short Windsor, Gold Rose

Sean Hale u12 Compound 6 gold end

Well done everybody. Keep up the good work and you get the results. There may be more, but details were unavailable at the time of completion. Please update me if you have claimed a county record or other award.

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County top 10 juniors

Wisely or unwisely, I’ve included the county top ten juniors list. If you don’t like it, take it up with the county records officer. For a start, I know Luke Wiseman shoots compound, but I only list the details that County publish.

GNAS ‘Summer Metrics’ postal tournament

This replaces the ’July Nationals’ and uses a Short Metric round, that you can shoot during July and August in the comfort of your own club.

Normal tournament rules apply, six dozen arrows, 3 at each distance on an 80 cm face using 10 zone scoring, six arrows for sighters etc. Distances given below.

Blank score sheets will be available for you so just shoot the round and give your scores to Lesley or Roger.

Just complete a separate score sheet for each time you shoot the round. Shoot the round any and as may times as you wish during July and August. , but only your best score will be submitted.

With any luck, results should be in mid November News update.

Full details of the round numbers will be on the club notice board and copy will be available on request.

Good shooting, but enjoy it.

Lesley and Roger

Recurve, Jun Gent 1 Luke Wiseman CTR 2 Alex Body Mayflower 3 Simon Leach Oakfield

4 Oliver Vobe Deben 5 Thomas Boatman W Essex 6 Elliot Cracknell Rayleigh

7 Aaron Maher Oakfield 8 Charlie Deeks Rayleigh 9 Jordan Johnson Rayleigh

10 Roman Quinton Deben

Recurve, Jun Lady 1 Louise Devlin Oakfield 2 Lauren Bann Rayleigh 3 Amy Barnes Oakfield

4 Grace Butterfield Mayflower 5 Phoebe Empringham CADAC 6 Hannah Godden Mayflower

7 Rhiannon Easton Noak Hill 8 Talia Jay Rayleigh 9 Imogen Newby Braintree

10 Helena Milne Rayleigh

Compound Jun Gent 1 Reece Johnson Phoenix

Compound Jun Lady 1 Rebecca Griffin CTR 2 Lenni Canham Rayleigh

50 / 30 m Short Metric 1

40 / 30 m Short Metric 2

30 / 20 m Short Metric 3

20 / 10 m Short Metric 4

20 / 10 m Short Metric 4

Boys Under 18 Under 16 Under 14 Under 12 Under 10

Girls Under 18 Under 16 Under 14

Details of age eligibility on 30th June (for any date you shoot the round)

15 / 10 m Short Metric 5

Under 12

15 / 10 m Short Metric 5

Under 10

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“Our weekends away at GB Academy Camp.

It’s been almost a year now since the Academy started, I trained for 18 months to try for a place on the GB academy and had decided just to move on because they kept on delaying who had got on! Then as soon as I had decided this, the call came to offer me a place!

I accepted after all there were only 20 places on the Southern academy being offered! With an open mind, I started in September 2013, and what an amazing experience we have had, learning so much, so much more than just shooting!

This is no holiday camp! Every month we travel to Hartspury College in Gloucestershire, we have special per-mission to leave school early on the Friday, as we have to be on camp by 5 pm. sometimes it takes 4 hours to even get there!

Our Fridays start with dinner in the student restaurant – the campus is huge! It’s good to catch up with our Academy friends as we come from all over the south, we have already received our schedule for the week-end from our head coach too.

We are now outside shooting, having been in the gym for the last 7 months so after dinner we set up our outdoor area, then around 7 pm till 9 pm we have class room works, talks on relaxation, focusing, dope test-ing, strength and conditioning, nutrition, to name a few

Then at 9 pm our mini bus takes us back to the Ibis hotel where we stay whilst in Gloucestershire. Our rooms are allocated, we usually share, but we are not allowed out of our rooms! and its light out by 10!

SATURDAY starts with a departure time of 7.30 am from the hotel and then back to the college for break-fast! Our day starts at 8.30 with warm ups and setting up of our bows.

From 9 am we start! Last month we had 720 rounds, head to heads, team rounds, speed shooting and of course coaching all the way through, apart from our lunch break we are shooting till 7.30 pm

We then pack up for the evening before heading back to the class room for more class work, last month it was preparation for competitions.

Depart at 9 pm back to hotel and lights out by 10 pm

SUNDAY out again by 7.30, breakfast then at 8.45 we start out strength and conditioning in the gym with Rob our trainer, half are in here and the other half of the group are on the field shooting. We then swap around at 10 am and continue shooting right through till our parents arrive to collect us at 4 pm

I usually get into the car for the journey home and fall asleep arriving back home by 9-9.30 pm.

Ready for Monday back to school, and another week begins! We have training schedules to follow between camps, which included shooting 1000 arrows a week, gym work and drills, every Monday we have to fill in any competition reports forms and our training logs and send them into our coaches.

This is why on most Mondays I miss the club night, as I’m catching up my logs and planning my week ahead, I still have homework and revision to fit in, having just sat GCSE’s early.

We have some really big competitions coming up, our academies cup is held in Lilleshall soon where we shoot against the midlands academy and the northern academy, we still have to go out to big long competitions and shoot for qualification scores!

As I say it is an amazing (but very tiring) journey we are on and one day I may make it to a shoot for my country, but for now I’m just enjoying the experience.”

Alex Body That’s brilliant Alex. And thank you to all who were able to write a few words to make the newsletter more interesting. If I can’t be at a tournament, I do enjoy reading (and writing) about how you all enjoyed the experience. Keep up the good work.

Roger

Gift Ideas!

Mayflower Archers offer a Gift voucher scheme to cover the cost of a Beginner's course at £45.

Should any of your friends or family member fancy trying archery, this could be an ideal Christmas or birthday pre-sent for the budding Archer!

Vouchers are available from David Scorah at club, contact him at david.scorah@mayflowerarchers.co.uk or telephone him on 07860 155652

Illustr

ation only

Mayflower Archers are running this scheme to help with all beginners, young, old, and existing members to help with there development in archery.

The FITA Beginner’s Award Scheme has been designed to allow beginners in Archery to measure their pro-gress against set standards. Their progress should be encouraged by the clubs and rewarded by the winning of FITA Feather and Arrow pins.

The awards are based on three (3) attainments.

Performance: Shooting a limited distance with the emphasis on making the target rather than high scores. Skill: Body position, position on line, releasing

Knowledge & Know How’s: Range safety, basic bow set up

The awards are split into two categories:

1) FEATHER AWARDS, for the youngest beginners, under 12 years of age and some disabled be-ginners. (It is up to the club coach to decide on an archer’s eligibility).

2) ARROW AWARDS, these are for pre-teenagers, teenagers and adults. Pre- teenagers will usually have already gained their feather awards).

The FITA Beginner’s Award Scheme is designed to reward the beginner at the various stages of their development, from shooting at very short distances 6- 10 metres, which is dependent on age, to the shortest indoor distance 18 metres and even further to near 30 metres. The size of the target faces will also vary, for feather awards 80 cm spot face or 40 cm face counting hits only, for arrow awards 80 cm full face using conventional FITA scoring.

Anyone wishing to participate in this programme please contact David Scorah at scorah1@btinternet.com Or telephone him on 01268 735678.

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FITA Beginner’s Awards.

Feather & Arrow

Mayflower Distance Awards

These are designed for the new archer to measure their own progress. When a given score is attained at a given distance, it is understood that you are competent enough to progress to the next distance. Coloured badges are awarded according to the distance shot and all you need to do is shoot 36 arrows and attain a score of 200 with no misses using 5 zone scoring and you need to do this 3 times for each distance.

The awards are: White—20 yards; Black—30 yards; Blue—40 yards; Red—50 yards; Gold—60 yards; Green—80 yards.

There is no fee, no judge or supervisor. Just set the stand with a 122 cm face at your chosen distance, note your three scores on separate score sheets, keep them and claim your badge from Lesley Howell.

Easy isn’t it?

Tournament Diary

5th Jul Junior National FITA FITA & Metrics Lilleshall, Shrops WRS

6th Jul Junior National Target Champs York, Hereford & Bristol Lilleshall, Shrops RS

12/13th Jul Clophill FITA Fest FITA 70m & 50m Olympic Ampthill, Beds WRS/NS

12th Jul SCAS Junior FITA Champs FITA & Metrics Colchester WRS

20th Jul ECAA FITA Champs FITA & Metrics Cancelled

26/27th Jul Andover & Old Basing Archers Double FITA Star Andover, Hants WRS

27th Jul West Essex Bowmen St George, Albion & Windsor Aveley, Essex

2/3rd Aug Oxford Archers Olympic 50 & 70m Rounds Oxford WRS

9/10th Aug The British Target Champs Ladies & Gents Double FITA Lilleshall, Shrops WRS

17th Aug East Anglian Champs FITA & Metrics Framlingham

24th Aug Essex Metric Clout Champs Single & Double One way Metric Clout Woodford RS

25th Aug Holden’s Kitty Hatfield Charity Double American Brentwood 15 dozen is hard work, but good fun, I’m told.

30th Aug SCAS Jun Target Champs York, Hereford & Bristol Runwell RS

31st Aug Rayleigh Town, Runwell Open York, Hereford & Bristol Runwell RS

27th Sep Malgrave Moonlight shoot 30m, 80 cm face, floodlit Basildon Includes free first visit to the barbeque

5th Oct Essex County Field Champs FITA 24 target Marked West Hanningfield RS

19th Oct Racketts AC Portsmouth Basildon

25th Oct Grays Archers Halloween shoot Corringham Includes a Witches brew, Bat in a bun or Corpse in a Coffin!

26th Oct Mayflower Archers FITA 18 Billericay RS

2nd Nov Braintree Bowmen Portsmouth Halstead

8th Nov Clophill AC Portsmouth Ampthill, Beds RS

9th Nov West Essex Bowmen Portsmouth Upminster

6/7th Dec National & Jun indoor champs FITA 18 & Portsmouth TBE WRS & RS

7th Dec Racketts AC, Christmas shoot Worcester Basildon Fancy dress, good fun with a different face and rules!

These have been reproduced from the County or GNAS tournament Calendars, or entry forms received. Entry forms are sometimes available from the club notice board or details available from GNAS/Archery GB website tournaments pages.

Please check the details on the entry form as changes are often made after newsletter publication.

RS = UK Record status event WRS = World Record Status event NS = National Series

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Dates for your diary

26th July Club & Junior Summer Metrics Short Metric Rounds Barleylands 1 pm Assembly Full details and entry list on the club notice board in the middle shed. Just add your name.

6th Sept Club Championships FITA 720 rounds Barleylands 11.30 am Assembly

Oct TBE Fun field shoot 2 x 15 3D Animals Barleylands 12.30 pm Assembly

Normal shooting is available on all club shoot dates except the Field round, but non participants must ad-here to the instructions of the Field Captain.

The field will be closed for shooting on Friday evening 12th then 13th & 14th September when the field is used as a car park for the Essex Country show.

For club shoot entries and details contact Steve Fenton at steve.fenton@mayflowerarchers.co.uk or Roger Glover at roger.glover@mayflowerarchers.co.uk Details will be sent by email well in advance of the shoot.

Indoor Friday club meetings, 7 to 10 pm commence at Mayflower School, on 3rd October (to be confirmed)

Club Diary

All club events are at our club ground, Barleylands Farm unless advised.

Dedicated junior meetings are held on Saturday afternoons between 2 & 4 pm and Monday after school (except Bank Holidays) where Lesley and friends are willing to assist and support you from 4.30 pm.

Thursday evenings are general club meetings from 6 to 8 pm. While younger members are welcome to join in, there will be no dedicated junior supervision or coaching.

Junior Rankings Start collecting your best three 12 dozen scores throughout the year and send them to GNAS to get placed in the National ranking scheme. Collect your score sheets (or result sheets) and send them by the end of October. See www.archerygb.org/documents_juniors.php or ‘Archery UK’ for full details.

‘JAWS’ awards Annually, the junior committee at GNAS run a junior awards scheme (jaws). Trophies are given by GNAS for the winners and runners up claiming the most points in the scheme. Points are claimed throughout the year for entering ‘Open’, County, Regional and National events, for claiming ‘Rose’ and FITA awards or attain-ing a ‘Six Gold End’. The form is a pain to complete, but gives you an incentive to achieve. Full details in ‘Archery UK’, www.archerygb.org/documents_juniors.php or see Lesley.

The next edition of Junior News is planned for October 2014. Please send any reports and good news to Roger by the middle of September at roger.glover@mayflowerarchers.co.uk

Published on behalf of the Mayflower Archers Junior Team solely for the benefit of Junior members. Any views expressed represent those of the contributor and not necessarily those of the club committee, the junior sub-committee or members of the club.

Whilst every care is taken in the preparation of this publication, errors can and will occur and the editor, Mayflower Archers committee or Junior sub –committee cannot be held responsible for articles wrongly published or misread

© Mayflower Archers and contributors 2014

The Junior Team

Junior Liaison Officer

Neal Howell 01375 674020

The ‘team’

Lesley Howell Martin Vidgeon-Hart David Scorah Mark Robinson

Junior Captain

Hannah Godden Assisted by Emily Owens

Child Protection

Officers

David Scorah 01268 735678

Mick Robinson 01277 658815