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    The Archery Shop-Online

    Sadly I’ve just reclaimed payment for an order that never arrived. I’d used them before and had satisfactory service. It’s a shame things have gone bad for them.
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    Etiquette/gamemanship

    Does this mean an archer shouldn’t use scopes or binocular whilst on the line?
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    Equating scores.

    We like to run some activities which will pit archers with different bow styles against each other. We’d want to try to “normalise” the scores so that everyone has a chance in the competitio. Can anyone point me in the direction of tables or spreadsheets/ formulas which would help with this?
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    AGB not granting WRS tournament status

    I understand the points made, I understand the view of the organisers wanting to get the best archers there, I just don’t happen to agree with approach taken. I‘d much rather have people on the team who wanted to be there, not because they’d effectively have no choice. If it were me making the...
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    AGB not granting WRS tournament status

    It is different, for example, if a club ran an athletic competition they didn’t need for it to be granted record status for an athlete to run/jump/throw a record. If my club wants to host a record status shoot they have to apply for it. I agree there is a slight difference between archery and...
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    AGB not granting WRS tournament status

    I find it puzzling that you have to apply for a competition to be World or National record status. In the distant past I competed in athletics, you could get a record at almost any competition provided you had qualified judges, measuring equipment that was certified and an arena that also met...
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    Target for short range practice

    I bought one from Tenzone targets. You can replace the layers once you’ve shot them out.
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    Sight marks

    Yes, sorry, “I ‘cannae rewrite the laws of physics captain”.
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    Sight marks

    Thanks for the replies. I weighed the arrows today and the new ones are slightly heavier (I had it in my head, without any evidence, that the new arrows, being thinner would also be lighter, my ahha moment when I put them on the scales). ok, so heavier arrows will fall faster and need a lower...
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    Sight marks

    I’ve just changed my arrows and noticed the change to my sight mark was not what I expected. Old arrows 500 spine, Medallion XR. Limbs are Ukkha SX50. Arrows were tuned at 30m, sight mark was 48 at 60m. New arrows 400 spine, Easton Advance, same limbs, arrows again tuned at 30m. Sight mark is...
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    AGB Skill levels

    Could a coach charge? Yes, if you take personal trainers as an example it’s possible to charge for your services. Of course it’s then a business and you have to pay tax, insurance etc. on that income. Should a club charge for use of its grounds? If it’s a club member bringing in a coach then...
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    AGB Skill levels

    I think your calculations on coaches vs students in archery is too simple. You can’t really put a level 1 coach with archers with some experience, they would need a higher level of coach which will skew the figure. I think there is room for people to charge for their coaching but I don’t think...
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    AGB Skill levels

    I would dispute your comment on free being not worth much, but I understand how people view paying for a service such as coaching does mean they make more of a commitment to “learning”. It can end up with people thinking that if coach A charges £50 a lesson and coach B charges £100 then coach B...
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    Disabled archer bow stand

    We created this for a young wheelchair user. its basically two school desk tops and a corner of the steel frame from one of the desks. There is a slightly smaller steel tube which slides up and down inside the vertical leg for height adjustment. since the picture was taken we’ve added two clamps...
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    AGB Skill levels

    I use a video delay app on my iPad. I can tell them what to try, they can do it and see how they did it immediately after the shot. I’ve found it works reasonably well but the archer needs to be reasonably aware of what they are trying to do for it to work well. I use it myself when doing my...
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    Yet another AGB Survey

    You’ll not be going for the new combined Archery and Running or skiing competitions then?
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    A/C Shafts and Multi Purpose Grounds

    AGB recently redid the Progress Award scheme. https://www.archerygb.org/shoot-compete/compete/awards-records-achievements/progress-awards-scheme/ You could use it both to give new archers something to work on and say they need to hit each level before moving up a distance.
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    AIDS for disabled archers

    Just to close off this thread the school were we shoot donated two old desks to use. I shaped the tops to make the new solid base (folds in two for storage), cut the metal leg frame to end up with right angle base and one upright (which was an old leg. This frame bolts to the base with four...
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    Can't Get Bow to Anchor Point

    I have found that using a video delay app on my iPad allows me to check my form. There are times when shooting feels slight off and by doing a session (usually in the garage at home) I can check what I’m actually doing. It also helps when I want to make changes and can see I’m not going back to...
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    Aiming in the shot cycle

    There are some useful videos out there, the Online Archery Academy and Jake Kaminski are two places I get good information from.
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