pipeski
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We have another beginner's course coming up. This year, we've seen a notable shift in our beginner demographics - we used to get about 90% adults. Our last course was 50% juniors. This next one looks like being about 75% juniors - ranging from 9 to 16.
And that brings me to bows. With adults, you can pretty much keep a supply of 66" and 68" bows, and limbs ranging from 16lb to 24lb (ours are mostly 18lb). With kids, it seems to be a different story - recommended bow lengths and weights vary a lot more.
So a question to those of you who run courses for groups of juniors - what bows do you use? So far we've only bought the standard wooden-handled take-down recurves that typically cost about ?90 with all the bits. We need bows with sights on them, in order to teach the sort of course that AGB would have us deliver, so that tends to rule out a lot of the cheaper options, which are generally only barebow. I know you can rig a sight of sorts for a 'jelly bow' using the old-fashioned trick of a pin and a bit of draught excluder tape. But surely there's got to be something better than that in 2015?
I'd be interested in hearing the experience of other coaches...
And that brings me to bows. With adults, you can pretty much keep a supply of 66" and 68" bows, and limbs ranging from 16lb to 24lb (ours are mostly 18lb). With kids, it seems to be a different story - recommended bow lengths and weights vary a lot more.
So a question to those of you who run courses for groups of juniors - what bows do you use? So far we've only bought the standard wooden-handled take-down recurves that typically cost about ?90 with all the bits. We need bows with sights on them, in order to teach the sort of course that AGB would have us deliver, so that tends to rule out a lot of the cheaper options, which are generally only barebow. I know you can rig a sight of sorts for a 'jelly bow' using the old-fashioned trick of a pin and a bit of draught excluder tape. But surely there's got to be something better than that in 2015?
I'd be interested in hearing the experience of other coaches...