| Inside this issue:
1. Canadian Archery Championships
2. Club Communication
3. AGM Notice
4. JOP Parent Responsibilities
5. Beginners Corner
6. Archery Names World Team
7. Introduction to Field Archery
Victoria Bowmen Archery Association Club Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 1
Note From The Editor:
I would like to thank you for taking the time to review the
Summer 2003 newsletter. As it has been almost 3 years since the last
one was published in "traditional" format (meaning not email) , the
Board would like to know if you have found the articles and notices
of value. If you have any preferences/requests or comments on future
features or continuing with this newsletter in this format, please
let us know. Any and all feedback is welcome. This is your club and we encourage
everyone to voice their say in how we communicate with each other.
Thanks again for your time and feedback.
Victoria Bowmen Archery Association
1. National Championships 2003
Our Club will be hosting the Canadian Archery Championships August
10 - 16 at our range and Juan de Fuca Recreation complex. The field
events will be held at our range August 10/11 with the Target Events
being held at the lower Juan de Fuca soccer fields August 11 - 15.
These events determine the Canadian Field and Target Champions.
August 16 is the FCA (Federation of Canadian Archers) Open, which
is a double elimination round Olympic style event, where archers
shoot matches against each other, two losses and your out! These
rounds are designed for maximum spectator appeal.
We need volunteers to come out and assist with anything from moving
targets, inputting scores, to just being there for errands. We also
need folks to help out at the club house every evening for the social
events, clean up and visiting friends.
If you can just give us a few hours during that week or a few hours
in the time from now until the event, please give me, Al Wills,
a call at 474-4909 and we can talk about where you can fit it. Do
not worry about highly technical jobs, there is something for everyone
and it will be FUN!!!
If, you, your company or someone you know would be willing to help
us out by donations or sponsorships including donations of product,
they would be much appreciated. We are also looking for companies to
purchase advertising in our program for the event.
2. Club Communication
The club may appear to be a very busy place all the time with people
'doing their thing', but we assure you it is a group of friends
sharing a common interest (passion) which is archery. We love to
stop and talk about it any time. Please be sure and stay around
after shooting and share some social time with your archery friends.
If you need information on any facet of the club or archery itself,
please contact me or any of our directors, I'd be happy to help.
Our meetings are advertised on the website, come out and see what
we do. Our club tournaments may seem very serious matters also,
I can assure you they are not! Stop in, wait for a break in the
shooting and introduce yourself or just talk to any of the folks
that are watching!
Al Wills - President, Victoria Bowmen
3. AGM Notice
Your chance to have some input on how the club operates, have your
say or just exercise your democratic right is coming up September
17 at our Club's Annual General Meeting. We will be electing a new
slate of officers, but most importantly, our present slate will
be reporting the progress of the club over the past year and the
plans for next year. If you have something bugging you or you want
to know about something, this is the place. We usually have a social
evening afterwards with some appetizers.
We hope to see you there.
AGM Notice - 2003 Annual General Meeting All club members anticipated
September 17th, 2003
Victoria Bowmen Clubhouse
7:00 pm
4. JOP Parent Responsibilities
Our club is all about the youth of our community and our commitment
to providing recreation for them. We have a fantastic program in
our Junior Olympic (JOP) Program, however it is NOT babysitting/daycare
service. Parents are to stay there with their children, there are
just too many for our instructors to adequately supervise them.
Archery is a fun, very safe sport, but a bow is still a weapon and
with youthful enthusiasm combined with lack of supervision anything
could happen. Parents 'dropping kids off' may b asked to take their
children with them if prior arrangements have not been made. Please
stay, learn a bit about the sport, try it yourself if you like or
take the opportunity to just sit back in those wonderful surroundings
and enjoy some quiet time!! That way everyone benefits, must mostly
the kids!!
5, Beginners Corner
Welcome to the first article designed for beginners to the sport
of archery. During the initial youth orientation to the Victoria
Bowmen Association outdoor season this year I could see that many
of the attendees were a little overwhelmed with all of the information
being presented. Just being new to archery myself last year, I am
still novice enough to know exactly how it feels. So, what I will
attempt to accomplish is to present different aspects of the sport
of archery in “easy to digest” and “English”
terms. In this article I will outline the basics of the different
types of archery that are commonly shot at our club.
Target Archery: “Target Archery” is
when a series of arrows are shot at a target (attached to a backstop
called a “butt) on a flat field. How many arrows and at what
distances they are shot from are determined by what type of “shoot”
that the archer is competing in. We will address the main target
competition types below. Each “turn” is called shooting
an “end”. Normally 3 or 6 arrows are shot, depending
on the type of shoot and distances, then the scores are tallied.
Field Archery: “Field Archery” differs
from Target as the shooting takes place in the “field”
or, in the case of our club, in the bushes and forests surrounding
the club property. When shooting competitive field archery you walk
in groups of 4 around a marked course in wooden or open landscape.
The arrows are still shot into the “butts” (as noted
above), however the size and type of the targets differ from target
archery and the scoring is different as well. Additionally, depending
on your age and equipment category, each butt is shot at differing
distances and also uphill, downhill or over streams, making the
field course a little more challenging than target shooting. Challenging
or not, Field Archery is great for archers that are looking to get
some exercise and have some variety in their shooting. A basic accuracy
should be obtained by shooting target archery first as field archery
tend to be less forgiving for recovering missed arrows. As a result,
the Victoria Bowmen club does not allow club arrows to be shot on
the filed course - the archer must supply their own.
3-D Archery: 3-D archery is one of North America's
fasted growing sports. 3-D archery consists of shooting either burlap
sacs (called a “bag course”) or at 3 dimensional foam
animals at unknown distances. The scoring is dependant on where
your arrow strikes these foam animals or bags. Originally developed
for hunting practice it's now shot by many non hunters due to its
competitive nature. With Pro 3D archers in the US earning $150,000+
per year it's not hard to see why. Approximately 40%-50% of the
Victoria Bowmen club members shoot either 3-D or field archery.
Clout Archery: Also, although it is not shot often,
we should also mention Clout. (compliments of Trentham Archery)
This form of archery is quite different from target archery. It
is modeled on the style of archery used under battle conditions
where it was rather pointless shooting directly at the enemy who
could protect themselves with their shields. Instead the technique
was to shoot high into the air and have the arrows drop straight
down behind the hapless enemy's lines of defense. In Clout you are
shooting at a short flag stuck into the ground at a greater distance
than for target shooting. Shooting distances are 165m or 185m for
men, 128m or 165m for Women and 128m or 80m for Juniors. The variation
of distance depends on the type of bow being used and the age of
the Juniors. Clout is not shot very often due to the difficulties
in finding suitable sized grounds.
Beginners Corner continues….
“The important thing to understand is how all of these different
archery components are tied together.”
Who are all these organizations and what are these numbers that
are getting tossed around? The important thing to understand is
how all of these different archery components are tied together.
The first section has addressed the different “types”
of archery, and I hope that the basics are clear enough for you.
This next section addresses the different regulatory bodies that
make their respective rules for the above styles of the sport. Most
of the rules are similar, but don't assume that they all are. The
best way to mess up a sport is to form a committee J I won't get
into rules or scoring in this issue as most people need some time
to digest the sport in pieces. If you have pressing questions regarding
how to score, what distances to shoot from or what the different
equipment categories are, drop an email to webmaster@victoriabowmen.com
and I'll be able to point you in the right direction. Now, on to
the different organizations.
FITA - The international governing body of archery
is the Federation Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (FITA). Founded
in 1931, the FITA serves to promote and regulate archery world-wide
through its more than 130 member associations. They can be found
at www.archery.org if you are interested. The Victoria Bowmen Association
typically shoots 4-5 “FITA STAR” tournaments per year,
as well as a number of indoor 18Meter tournaments as well. Huh?
Not to worry, more on that coming in the next paragraph.
The FITA Round consists of 36 arrows shot at each of four distances
(90, 70, 50 and 30 meters for men; 70, 60, 50, 30 meters for women)
for a total of 144 arrows. In future articles and on the club website
at www.victoriabowmen.com we will address the different age categories
and equipment classifications as well.FCA- most countries have their
own associations as well and in Canada is the “FCA”
- Federation of Canadian Archers. www.fca.ca. Normally at the Victoria
Bowmen, we will shoot a number of “900” rounds outdoors
each year - the schedule is posted on our website at www.victoriabowmen.com.
The Canadian 900 Round consists of thirty (30) arrows at each of
the following distances:
· Master, Senior, Junior and Cadet Men, 55, 45, 35m;
· Master, Senior, Junior and Cadet Women, 55, 45, 35m;
· Cub Men, Cub Women: 45, 35, and 25m;
· Pre-Cub Men, Pre-Cub Women; 30, 25, 20m;
· Distances for Peewee Men and Peewee Women may vary.
BCAA (British Columbia Archery Association) - also the
provincial organization responsible for the J.O.P (Junior Olympic
Program) that most youth are enrolled in. In most aspects this is
a provincial extension of the FCA, however there are some specific
programs that are provincially based, such as the program that most
of the youth in our organization are involved in. It is called the
J.O.P Program (Junior Olympics Program) and has it's very own set
of rules.
INTRODUCTION to JOP -
The British Columbia Archery Association (BCAA) has recognized the
need for a developmental program for junior archers. The main purpose
of the program is to encourage maximum participation in the sport.
If the program is followed step by step, all participants should
be able to develop their abilities to the maximum and at the same
time, enjoy the oldest of sports. Long term training will encourage
the pursuit of excellence with the possibility of JOP archers reaching
international and Olympic standards as they progress.
The JOP program has some slightly different age categories than
the FCA/BCAA and FITA organizations and the distances shot for competition
are a little different that the “mainstream” organizations.
However, the award/reward system is designed to provide young archers
with continual recognition for achievements as they move through
the program. The Victoria Bowmen Association is working to synchronize
the FITA and FCA shoots to accommodate JOP requirements as well
so that all competitions can be shot at the same time without interfering
with the specific requirements of each.
6. Archery Names World Team
The 2003 World Target Championship in New York City, July 14-20,
determine how many archers Canada will be permitted to send to the
2004 Athens Olympic Games. Archers will compete in two equipment
categories, compound bows and recurve bows. The recurve bow is the
equipment category in the Olympic Games.
The Federation of Canadian Archers announces the world team members
as a mixture of experienced archers and newcomers. On the men's
recurve team there are two Olympians, Claude Rousseau who competed
in Barcelona in 1992 and Rob Rusnov who compete in Atlanta in 1996
and Sydney in 2000.
On the ladies' recurve team is Anna Mozhar who competed for Kazakhstan
in Atlanta in 1996 and will now be competing for Canada. Mariez-Pier
Beaudet who finished 6th in the Cadet World Championship in 2002,
will compete in her first senior World Championship.
The Compound team will be led by Dawn Groszko and Lillian Meehan
who have placed highly in several previous World Championship tournaments,
and by Kevin Tataryn who finished 9th in the Junior World Championship
in 2002, will compete in his first senior World Championship.
Team members are:
Compound men
Benny Parenteau - Asbestos, QC
Kevin Tataryn - Stonewall, MB
Ed Wilson - Winnipeg, MB
Travis Van Daele - Winnipeg, MB
Compound Women
Dawn Groszko - Calgary, AB
Lillian Meehan - Surrey, BC
Lynne Durward - Salt Spring Island, BC
Charlene Parlee - Sussex Corner, NB
Doris Jones of Selkirk, MB was named to the Compound Women's team
but has decided not to attend the World Championship.
Recurve Men
Hugh MacDonald - Vancouver, BC
Claude Rousseau - St. Nicolas, QC
Jonathan Ohayon - Redlands, CA (USA)
Rob Rusnov - Toronto, ON
Recurve Ladies
Anna Mozhar - Toronto, ON
Marie-Pier Beaudet - Levis, QC
Angela Cramer - Victoria, BC
Racheal Savage - Caledon, ON
The support staff for the team are:
Team Leader - Tracy Klat - Victoria, BC
Coach - Joan McDonald - Toronto, ON
Assistant - Richard Scammell, MacKenzie, BC
Assistant - Arthur Nault, Brossard, QC
For further information please contact
Information@fca.ca or
jmcdonald@attglobal.net
Federation of Canadian Archers 613-260-2113
Joan McDonald - 416-481-7873
7. Introduction to Field Archery
A great form of exercise for all ages and also very stimulating
for the younger minds, some of the senior club members have volunteered
to put forward 3 “mini” training sessions to introduce
Field archery to those club members would like to broaden their
horizons. These sessions begin by will addressing course safety,
scoring and competition categories for the first 20 minutes or so,
then groups of 3-4 new archers will be escorted though the lower
field course to shoot. As there is a possibility that arrows may
be lost, the Victoria Bowmen can not supply club arrows for this
session, however bows will be available.
The dates are Sunday mornings starting at 9:00AM sharp in the upper
parking area. July 6th, 13th for training and introduction and the
20th of July for a mini tournament. As we are working on volunteer
co-ordination, a pre-registration is requested to ensure that we
have not only adequate interest, but also enough volunteers to run
these sessions. There is no fee for these dates. Please contact
at 519-0153 if you plan on attending or require more
information.
Introduction
to Field Archery Course
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