Barry C
New member
What realistic changes would you like to see made in our sport?
I'm just dreaming but... I would like to lose the traditional flavour of recurve and compound shooting and try and bring it closer to being a sport - losing the robing hood and lord of the rings image that tarnished archery into a nerd sport. Abolish dress codes completely. Bring archery into schools as part of PE - including a national schools championship rivaling BUSA in size. I would like to see coaching awards become harder with more prestige attached - perhaps with an area for local coaches and their resume on a website. Coaches should get paid more - after all they can potentially give you many more points than the latest hoyt can. I wish coaching was desireable where coaches had to compete to teach, encouraging learning.
Encourage more head to head shoots at every competition to increase individual competition adding to the sporting flavour. Introduction of a national archery league supported by gnas for individuals and teams. Teams and indiciduals would submit scores. Also gaining points from winning competitions, the points varying on the quality in each event which can then give clubs a national ranking. Encouraging pride and competition between clubs.
Somehow to encourage people to run tournaments. Perhaps a fund to pay professional organisers to run x number of tournaments a year so many in each region. Tournament fees would go up a bit but they are super cheap already, currently only a few pounds for all day entertainment! Thats like 2-3 beers. ACME is currently the closest archery has to this and they do a wonderful job - they are experienced and their shoots have been shown to run well.
I feel the competitive side of archery needs to be promoted in this way to increase the number of young athletic people in the sport and to improve our cobweb image. Have i missed anything? : )
p.s I did not intend to make traditional archery less traditional just the leading edge of the sport.
I'm just dreaming but... I would like to lose the traditional flavour of recurve and compound shooting and try and bring it closer to being a sport - losing the robing hood and lord of the rings image that tarnished archery into a nerd sport. Abolish dress codes completely. Bring archery into schools as part of PE - including a national schools championship rivaling BUSA in size. I would like to see coaching awards become harder with more prestige attached - perhaps with an area for local coaches and their resume on a website. Coaches should get paid more - after all they can potentially give you many more points than the latest hoyt can. I wish coaching was desireable where coaches had to compete to teach, encouraging learning.
Encourage more head to head shoots at every competition to increase individual competition adding to the sporting flavour. Introduction of a national archery league supported by gnas for individuals and teams. Teams and indiciduals would submit scores. Also gaining points from winning competitions, the points varying on the quality in each event which can then give clubs a national ranking. Encouraging pride and competition between clubs.
Somehow to encourage people to run tournaments. Perhaps a fund to pay professional organisers to run x number of tournaments a year so many in each region. Tournament fees would go up a bit but they are super cheap already, currently only a few pounds for all day entertainment! Thats like 2-3 beers. ACME is currently the closest archery has to this and they do a wonderful job - they are experienced and their shoots have been shown to run well.
I feel the competitive side of archery needs to be promoted in this way to increase the number of young athletic people in the sport and to improve our cobweb image. Have i missed anything? : )
p.s I did not intend to make traditional archery less traditional just the leading edge of the sport.