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Junior News

From the Junior Officer

Hi Guy’s

So the outdoor season has come to an end and personally! I think we had a brilliant season. All of you during the season achieving new PB’s , picking up individual and team medals and trophies , which is in recognition of the hard work and practice you have done.

Just a few special mentions, Well done to Sophie for representing GB in the junior Euro Nations with excellent results. Well done Sam, James Howell, Joe, Ellie and Alex Body for shooting for the county and I know there are some others of you that won’t be far behind, keep practicing, keep focused, and the rewards will come.

We are now back in doors, Friday nights and Saturday mornings at Mayflower school, so focus now on the indoor season, there’s plenty of shoots coming up, ask if you need further details and good luck to you all. I would like to welcome all the new junior members and wish them happy shooting at Mayflower Archers. If any of you would like any more information or help just ask any of the coaches and helpers, we are here to help!

Over the indoor season we are planning to hold a few equipment workshops and a regular drop in coaching clinic at Mayflower school, if any of you would like to learn more about you equipment and how to maintain it, or feel you could do with a helping hand with your shooting come along, dates will be released soon.

Don’t forget the once a month outdoor meeting at Barleylands incorporating the frost-bite postal league, The first one will be on November 6th at 10am, and then the second Saturday in month 2 pm – 4 pm, so come and join us, recurve and compound all welcome.

On a final note, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped with the juniors over the outdoor season your time and patience with the juniors is so much appreciated, so thank you very much you all deserve a pat on the back.

Neal Howell

J.L.O.

Inside this issue:

Tournament Round up 2

Tournament Round up continued

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Records update Jordan Johnson

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Tournament reports November Challenge

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Sophie Brown 6

Tournament reports Editor’s notes

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Club Diary National Awards

Back page

Issue No. 15 October 2010

Various award schemes and Instant Quiz

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FITA Feather & Arrow awards

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Indoor League info July Nationals

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Tournament Diary 9

If I’ve not included any events it may be because I’ve missed them or not been told about them. Please also tell me about your achievements. All articles sent in will be included. Details for sending them are the on back page.

Tournament Round up

10th July, Southern Counties Junior FITA Star & Metrics

Five of our young members made their way to Colchester and for some, just a few days after returning from JNOC at Lilleshall to gain three podium places. Well done all, it shows enthusiasm for your sport.

Sam Yeates Recurve Metric II Bronze Aaron Gourley Recurve Metric II Alex Body Recurve Metric IV Gold (Rayleigh Town) James Gridley Recurve Metric IV Bronze Mark Robinson Compound Cadet FITA

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22nd Aug, Woodford Metric Clout

The first this event has been organised in Essex by Clout specialists, Woodford Archers. So for the competitors this was an excellent chance to gain a county record. See Sam’s report on page 3

Mark Robinson Gent u18 Compound Gold Yeates Mayflower Gent u16 Recurve Gold James Howell Gent u16 Recurve Bronze Alex Body Gent u12 Recurve Gold (Rayleigh Town)

SCAS Intercounty Junior Team Results - 15 Aug

Success for Essex in the recurve division with Alex Body, Louise Devlin, Dan At-kinson, Sam Yeates and Edward Kearse winning gold over Sussex and Berkshire

1 Essex 4468 2 Sussex 4415 3 Berkshire 4340

A creditable 2nd place for Essex Compound team by Daisy Clark, Luke Wiseman, Joe Franklin and Ellie Vidgeon-Hart

1 Sussex 3702 2 Essex 3677 3 Kent 3552

Of the highest scores, Daisy Clark (CTR) took the compound trophy for Essex

5th September, Southern Counties Junior Target Championships

Despite being cool and overcast Rayleigh Town still produced another glorious event and Mayflower members gathered a good crop of medals for a good finish to a busy outdoor season. Mark’s report can be found on page 7.

Joe Franklin Compound York Gold Mark Robinson Compound Bristol I Samuel Yeates Recurve Bristol II 7th Aaron Gourley Recurve Bristol II 10th Sophie Brown Compound Bristol III Gold Alex Body Recurve Bristol IV Gold (Rayleigh Town) James Gridley Recurve Bristol IV 5th Chelmsford Tudor Rose win the club team gold with Sophie Cole, Grace Butterfield, Luke Baharie

Clout Report – by Sam Yeates

This year hosted the first Double Metric Clout in Essex. As we pulled into the field the rain ceased. We all knew it was going to be…shall we say interesting. I had increased my poundage, James was shooting “allys” and Mark had changed his cams. Nevertheless this didn’t dampen the Mayflower spirit, as we knew whoever won their group would win a county record. As we started, the arrows were cart wheeling down the field but luckily into the target.

At lunchtime we began to share tales of the day so far. It was enlightening to find out that Mark was aiming at something that was liable to move. After we had a laugh at him, Sandy came over and told Neil he had found some snake eggs in his garden, then handed him the envelope. The prank was set. As Sandy let go of the washer, inside the envelope, it began to rattle. Neil leapt out of his skin and threw the en-velope at Liz. With a tremendous amount of laughter, we got our five-minute warning.

As I was getting ready, I looked back out onto the field and asked, “Where have all the targets gone?” Let’s just say I was made to feel an idiot for the rest of the day.

By the end of the day, once the targets had been packed away, we found out that Mark and myself had got a county claim. What an excellent result for Mayflower at the first, ever, Double Metric Clout in Essex. Well done to all that participated.

30th August Holden’s Double American ‘Hatfield’ Charity shoot

Not a popular event with Mayflower Juniors, but perhaps they were at the Norfolk FITA Star & 70m event. However, my spy did spot Aaron Gourley shooting the full double American round. Well done Aaron and I bet you were tired after 15 dozen arrows. I do know that my spy was, but he’s old. Sorry Steve.

5th September Southend & District Open

Not content with shooting all day Saturday Joe and Sam ventured to Southend and continued on Sunday. Now that’s dedication. Well done!

Joe Franklin Gent u18 Compound Bristol I Gold Sam Yeates Gent u16 Recurve Bristol II Bronze & Lady P

18th Sep, Bowmen of Malgrave Moonlight shoot.

It’s odd how it takes a dark cold night to get 16 junior and senior members onto the shooting line at 8 pm, but it does sound like it was good evening. For a lot of participants, it was dinner at the barbeque having just finished the club championship round. How they saw the targets can be seen in Lesley and Neal’s shoot report on page 7.

Sophie Brown and Ellie Vidgeon-Hart won Junior lady compound Gold and Silver medals, as did Joe Frank-lin and David Fall for the junior gent compound class with a valiant effort from Alex Body, Sam Yeates and James Howell.

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Mayflower Club Championships – 18 Sep

FITA 70m, Cadet 60m & 40m Junior & novice rounds

Not for many years has Mayflower run a club championship round so Steve Fenton and Lesley Howell pitched in and organised one. We were hoping for more senior members to take part, but it was well sup-ported by you junior members. Thank you.

70m Compound JG Junior Joe Franklin Gold 629 70m Compound JL Junior Sophie Brown Gold 571 60m Compound JG Cadet Mark Robinson Gold 493 40m Compound JG Novice David Fall Gold 581 60m Recurve JG Cadet Sam Yeates Gold 489 60m Recurve JG Cadet Alan Vale Silver 343 40m Recurve JG Junior Alex Body Gold 575 40m Recurve JG Junior Nicholas Johnston Silver 467

While I’m writing about achievements, I came across this act of generosity and achievement on the county website submitted by proud mum, Diane who has given me permission to reproduce the article. Some of you may have already seen it, but I’m pleased to be able to relay it to you directly. I think Jordan’s words say it all and 754 from a possible 972 for his age in windy conditions I think is excellent.

“Hi my name is Jordan, I am 9 years old and took up archery 2 years ago.

I have just raised over £600 for two children’s charities; Great Ormond Children’s Hospital and CLIC Sargent, the children’s cancer charity. My aim was to score over 500 points shooting at a distance of 30 yards and with 108 arrows. I took up this challenge on the 25th September at my Archery Club Phoenix Archers in Weeley and managed to score 754 despite the very windy conditions. I am looking forward to presenting the charities with a cheque soon”.

Jordan Johnson

If you wish to support Jordan’s chosen charities, he is still collecting donations and to save publishing personal details, I will either supply Diane’s address or forward cheques. Roger Glover

Records update Thanks to all you busy archers, Martin Vidgeon-Hart has been very busy collecting all the county records you’ve broken during the outdoor season. And what a haul? Keep up the good work.

Ellie Vidgeon-Hart Compound Junior Warwick Ellie Vidgeon-Hart Compound Short National Ellie Vidgeon-Hart Compound Short Windsor Ellie Vidgeon-Hart Compound Short Western James Gridley u12 Recurve Short Metric IV James Howell u15 Recurve FITA Field 24 target mixed Joe Franklin u18 Compound FITA Field 24 target mixed Joe Franklin u18 Compound Long Warwick Joe Franklin u18 Compound Double FITA 70 Joe Franklin u18 Compound Bristol 1

Records claimed but not currently ratified

Joseph Franklin Metric 1, Sophie Brown Short Western

Six Gold Ends claimed since April 2010

Joe Franklin, Sam Yeates, Ellie Vidgeon-Hart, Alex Croft

Thank you for the accurate record keeping Martin, here’s another one for you.

Essex County FITA Field Championships, 3rd October FITA 24 target marked round

Alex Body (Mayflower Archers) Claims National Record as u12 Recurve Luke Wiseman (Chelmsford Tudor Rose) Claims National Record for u15 Compound shooting red pegs (adult distance). Fantastic! Congratulations to you both. Report and details are planned for the next issue.

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Clophill FITA Fest /FITA 720 and individual head to heads

“The weekend of the Clophill FITA Fest once again has come and gone this year Mayflower being repre-sented well with Sophie Brown, Alex Croft, Phil Glover, Michael Judd, Trevor Chapman and Kristine Kirchhoff.

During the Saturday both Alex and Sophie shot new Pb’s Sophie adding a huge 30 onto hers to add to the 40 she put on it two weeks before, breaking the 600 barrier for the first time. In the head to head we had someone from mayflower in the quarter-finals of each discipline with most of them winning many rounds to make it there. Sophie had us all on the edge not doing things simply and took her match to a one-arrow shoot off which she unfortunately lost shooting a 9 to her opponents 10. Alex also shot well, winning his first head to head which was well deserved.

Sunday

Mayflower again represented by a fair few archers but a couple down from the Saturday however the weather conditions playing havoc with the archers across the whole field with a strong wind, somehow though both Alex croft and Sophie brown both pulled out there senior 6 gold ends at 70 M within a dozen of each other. Alex went on to shoot another PB, 1 point more than Saturday’s score All the others also shoot well although during the day we did loose Phil Glover as he decided enough was enough. So it once again came to the knock out rounds and we were represented in the quarter finals in all disciplines except women’s recurve, Alex Croft went to this stage where he put up a great fight with paralympian and world record holder John Stubbs and took him to 6-4 in the new sets system that was being used this weekend which was very good and very close. Sophie came up against the same women as the Saturday and this time beat her but once again leaving it until the last possible set to resolve it. Sophie then moving on into the semis where she came up against the number one seed of the day, this didn’t faze her at all though and she went on to put up her best fight and she lost it 6-4 after being at 4-4 it went to the last set where it was close but Sophie then moved into the bronze medal match where she shoot her socks of and with a lot of support from others she went on to win the match 7-3 and finished the day 3rd. After a weekend of great weather with the sun and the wind the Sunday provided the archers with Mayflower put up a good fight in all areas of the shoot and did the club proud, as I’m sure you will all agree.”

By Ben Brown Our thanks Ben who, having recently passed into the senior ranks is now at Portsmouth University. We wish him well in his studies and hope to see him again soon.

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GNAS ‘November Challenge’ postal tournament.

We will again be submitting scores for this national postal round using the simple rules given below.

3 dozen (36) arrows on a 60 cm face at 20 yards using 10 zone scoring and must be shot anytime during November. Sighting arrows per current rules. Age eligibility as 31st October 2010.

Trophies will be awarded by GNAS for the first three places in each group.

Scores collected will be sorted into age and bow style groups sent to GNAS as a club entry. Roger and Neal will be chasing everyone for names later this month.

Details of age groups and bow styles will be on the club notice board nearer the date and we’re willing to advise you if you need clarification. Club score sheets will be provided in order to simplify matters for me, but I will need you to write your GNAS numbers on your score sheet.

We can shoot the round together on club shooting dates, but you can shoot it as often or any time you like. Only your best score will be submitted.

Good shooting,

Roger Glover

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Sophie’s trip to Northern Ireland

Junior Euronations match, Belfast, 17th & 18th July

It all started when Paul Clark told me to submit my scores to Steve Taylor a member of the English Archery Federation. I then received a call from him on one of my practice sessions over at SDAC and got told I was not aloud to tell anyone until the weekend. On the Thursday before flying out I travelled up to my aunts, so I could be at Birmingham airport for 7:30. So on Friday morning in we made our way to the airport. When I arrived I found Jodie Barnes be-cause she was the only one I knew on the team we all got our luggage checked-in then walked over to over sized luggage to put our bow boxes sorted it was quite scary watching them go. We then all headed of so we all said goodbye to family we then sat in departures and got to know each other, when we boarded the plane we got a message from the captain saying good luck for the weekend ahead. On the Friday afternoon we all when for a practice at all of our distances which I was please about so I could practise because the wind there was worse than the Mayflower field when that gets really bad. On Saturday everyone got up we all had breakfast then headed of to the FITA 900 shoot where we had the Lord Major of Lisburn spoke to all of us we shoot the first 5 dozen then had lunch where a barbeque lunch, which was supposed to last we had 2 ½ hours for lunch, but they reduced it to 1 and a half and we completed the last 2 ½ dozen. When we finished, we headed back to our hotel 10 minutes down the road at most we then got told what are entertainment was for the evening it was two games of bowling and one game of laser quest and that was after having dinner with lord mayor of Lisbon we then went and played bowling and laser quest when we finished we went back to the hotel and finished up for the night. Sunday was another early start we started another FITA 900 the same as yesterday but this time at the end we all got our medals and after that the water fight that every one had been looking forward to. We were staying until Monday morning so we went out Sunday night to Pizza Hut then we went through the arcades and played on most of the games there then we went to the cinema to see ‘Inception’ then went back to the restaurant and asked for hot chocolates and they said at 11:30 that they closed their machine but they went and turned them back on just for the team. On Monday we headed for McDonalds for breakfast then went back to the hotel to pack the rest of our stuff then headed for a quick tour of Dublin then to the airport to fly back to Birmingham airport. England came home with the team trophy and we all left with at least two medals each we also all got given a piece of crystal as a memory of the Euro nations. Sophie Brown

Bowmen of Malgrave Moonlight Shoot September 18th was the Bowmen of Malgrave Moonlight shoot; if any of you have never taken part in this event you really should give it a go. Everyone shoots 3-dozen arrows in 3’s, at 30 mtrs on an 80cm face but with one a small twist, you don’t start shooting until 8pm! We arrived at the field about 6pm and set up the Mayflower village, which became our home for the evening. The smell of the BBQ wafted over to the tent line luring you

to it and as you get a ticket for one free visit, it didn’t take us long to adventure over. The atmosphere as with every year was buzzing, and as darkness fell you could see glow sticks illuminating along the line and being attached to equipment. At 8pm it was time for sighters, the whistle blew and we were off, it soon became apparent that the targets did not line with the positions marked on the shooting line, which seemed to cause some confusion with archers shooting incorrect targets. After a couple of ends everyone settled into it and seemed to be having a fantastic time, you could hear the banter going on up and down the line. The weather was very kind to us, but did become chilly as the evening went on but with soup, coffee and tea being passed out up and down the line everyone’s spirits were kept high. The shoot finished at around 11 pm and you could tell fun was had by all but everyone was feeling weary and ready for their beds.

By Lesley & Neal Howell

SCAS Rayleigh

On the 4th September at Rayleigh town archery club we took part in the southern counties record status and rose award junior competition.

The day began quite warm with a mild wind. Our team consisted of Joe Franklin, Sam Yeates, Sophie Brown, Aaron Gourley, James Gridley and Alex Body.

When I arrived it was great to look down the tent line and see the mayflower junior flag flying from the captains tent. During the day we had a few visitors. The first visitor was Alex Croft who stayed ‘til lunch, but was put to work scoring for Joe. At lunch Neal, Lesley and James Howell came to see us. The last visitor we had was Dave Scorah who came over to see how we were all doing.

We had three podium positions. Joe Franklin won the Junior Gents Compound York with a score of 1038. Sophie Brown won the Bristol 3 lady with a score of 1254, and Alex Body won the Bristol 4 with a score of 1154.

Overall we all had a very good day and will want to come back next year.

Mark Robinson

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Editor’s notes

Thank you all for your contributions to this newsletter. Thank you also to Sophie Brown for, having been selected to represent England, put her experience into words for all of us to enjoy. By sending in your bits of information personal views and telling us what you’ve been up to, I hope it makes more interesting reading and a bumper edition. It also makes my tasks much easier.

Keep up the good work because there are plenty of competitive and fun indoor shoots coming up. If you think that archery is getting too serious, Racketts AC annual Worcester shoot is coming up. Yes, it is a competition, but it is also a lot of fun and fancy dress with mince pies thrown in.

Another ‘first’ in this issue, is the instant quiz on page 10. If I get a good response, I hope to make this a regular feature, but will welcome any assistance you offer by way of puzzles and caption competitions.

Good shooting,

Roger Glover

GNAS ‘July National’ postal tournament Results

Thank you all for giving me a score to represent Mayflower and well done to all especially trophy winners, Sophie Brown and Alex Body. We’ll look forward to presenting your trophies soon. Also well done to all the recurve archers whose position may seem low as there were hundreds of entries in that discipline. Name Age Bow Type Round Score Hits Golds Pos. Joe Franklin 17 Compound 1 602 72 49 5 Mark Robinson 16 Compound 1 550 72 40 7 James Howell 14 Recurve 3 612 72 56 7 Sam Yeates 15 Recurve 3 562 72 31 12 Sophie Brown 14 Compound 4 628 72 62 3 Aaron Gourley 14 Recurve 5 514 72 25 18 Nicholas Johnston 12 Recurve 5 452 70 19 25 James Gridley 11 Recurve 7 566 72 37 6 Alan Vale 14 Recurve 3 482 72 18 23 (Rayleigh Town AC) Alex Body 11 Recurve 7 616 72 57 1 (Rayleigh Town AC) Throughout these pages you may notice that I include Alan Vale and Alex Body in results and articles. At the time of the event they were affiliated through Rayleigh Town AC, but have since transferred to Mayflower Juniors. Consequently, I consider that their achievements should be noted. Please join me also in welcoming them and David Fall as new members to the club.

Last year you held your division 2 position in the league as the only Junior team in division 2. This year Martin has entered a team in which all Mayflower members can participate; seniors as well. That doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax as senior members will need your help if you wish to gain promotion again. Martin is giving preference to junior members.

For those who are relatively new, details of the league are that you shoot 36 arrows into a 40 cm target at 15 yards and you do it at on our own territory. Clubs all round the county do the same around the same date. You then hand your scores to Martin Vidgeon-Hart who will enter the best three.

Results of matches will be posted on the notice board as soon as they are available.

The dates for shooting the matches are on the Club Diary page.

Good shooting.

Andy Harris League

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This looks interesting, is new to Mayflower and is being organised by Lesley Howell who has entered a compound and a recurve team. Thank you, Lesley.

It involves everybody shooting 36 arrows into an 80 cm face at 30 metres on a pre-determined day and time. Now how hard can that be? Except that we will be shooting at the field.

Lesley will collect the scores and enter the best three in each discipline. So come along for a bit of fun and support your club.

Once again,

Good shooting

Frostbite League

Tournament Diary

Entering a tournament

Entry forms for tournaments are available from the club notice board or can be downloaded from the Mayflower website, www.mayflowerarchers.co.uk tournament diary pages.

If you’ve never entered a tournament before, it is advisable to seek advice before completing the entry form or refer to your ‘Welcome’ booklet given when you joined the club. If you didn’t get a copy, contact Roger Glover at roger.glover@mayflowerarchers.co.uk

18th Oct Racketts AC Portsmouth round Basildon Open

24th Oct Woodford Archers Novelty Fun shoot Woodford Green, Essex

30th Oct Hawkes AC FITA 18 + Head to Head Ampthill, Beds WRS

31st Oct Hawkes AC FITA 18 Double Ampthill, Beds WRS

31st Oct Grays Power Archers Halloween Fun shoot Grays Sounds like fun Soup and Hot dogs provided to keep you warm.

31st Oct Mayflower Archers FITA 18 Billericay RS

6th Nov West Essex Bowmen Portsmouth Romford Essex

TBE Dunstable Bowmen Combined FITA Ampthill Beds WRS

21st Nov Herts County Indoor Champs FITA 25 Stevenage, Herts RS

21st Nov Taverham Archers FITA Field / Clout Taverham, Norfolk Double fun!

27/28 Nov Fakenham Bowmen FITA 18 + H2H Fakenham, Norfolk WRS

28th Nov Beds County Indoor Champs FITA 25 Ampthill Beds WRS

28th Nov British Barebow Champs FITA 18 (full face)+ H2H Benfleet, Essex RS

4th Dec Junior National Champs Portsmouth Lilleshall Shropshire WRS

5th Dec Senior National Champs FITA 18 + H2H Lilleshall Shropshire WRS

12th Dec Racketts A C Worcester Basildon Essex Good fun!

11/12 Dec Clophill AC FITA 18 Ampthill, Beds WRS

8th Jan Rayleigh Town Junior Portsmouth Thundersley, Essex

9th Jan Rayleigh Town Senior Portsmouth Thundersley, Essex

30th Jan Braintree Bowmen Worcester Halstead, Essex

13th Feb Tudor Archers Valentine shoot FITA 25 Sudbury, Suffolk

20th Feb Racketts AC Portsmouth round Basildon Open

20th Mar ECAA Indoor Champs FITA 25 Brentwood

Other events 20th Oct Bring and Buy Sale HDSA Broxhill Centre (Harold Hill) 11.00—2.30 pm

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Instant Quiz

This picture shows a club team at a recent national Field Championships competition. Amongst them are several Mayflower members in disguise. (not wearing Mayflower colours)

The question is, for one point, how many members of Mayflower Archers are in the picture?

And now the hard bit for one point each, can you name them?

Sorry, there are no prizes, but members answering correctly will be credited in the January issue along with the correct answers.

Members of Panther Bowhunters are excluded from entering as are members of Mayflower club committee because they know all club members. Good luck!

Archery GB Progress Awards

Mayflower have now subscribed to this award scheme for juniors. It is designed to provide beginners and younger archers with awards for developing their archery skills and the scheme 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.

Scores that need to be attained vary according to age, sex, bowstyle and distance shot. They are more applicable to an outdoor range, but as we are shooting outdoors regularly now there will be opportunities to start during the winter months.

See David Scorah for full details of scores and how to get them.

Archer of the Year Awards

In addition to all the awards offered by GNAS Junior Committee, (details on the back page) they have decided make a special award called “Archer of the Year”. Below is an extract from the website explaining it all.

“The Junior Committee thought it would be nice to award a Special Award to the Archer of the year. It will be presented annually at the Junior Indoor Championships, to those of you who have supported the indoor and outdoor Junior Championships, and also participated in the July National and November Chal-lenge postal competitions. The winners will be decided on their results by the committee.”

By way of a starter, Mayflower run the postal tournaments ‘July Nationals’ and ‘November Challenge’ so all you have to do to be eligible for this award is to enter the Junior National Outdoor Championships and the Junior National Indoor Championships. Both are well worth entering and I’ve had a great time in the past supporting junior members.

Mayflower Distance Awards

These are designed for the new archer to measure their own progress in the early stages. 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. The awards are:

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

There is no fee, no judges or supervisor. Just set the stand with a 122 cm face at your chosen distance, starting at 20 yards anytime you like, record your three scores on separate score sheets, keep them and claim your badge from David Scorah.

Easy isn’t it?

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FFFFITA Beginner’s Awards.ITA Beginner’s Awards.ITA Beginner’s Awards.ITA Beginner’s Awards.

Feather & ArrowFeather & ArrowFeather & ArrowFeather & Arrow

Mayflower Archers have introduced this scheme to assist our new and existing juniors and all be-ginners, including adults with their development in archery. The FITA Beginner’s Award Scheme has been designed to allow beginners in Archery to measure their progress against set standards. Their progress should be encouraged by the clubs and re-warded by the winning of FITA Feather and Arrow pins. The awards are based on three (3) attainments. Performance. Skill. Knowledge & Know How. The awards are split into two categories: 1) FEATHER AWARDSFEATHER AWARDSFEATHER AWARDSFEATHER 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 AWARDSARROW AWARDSARROW AWARDSARROW AWARDS, these are for pre-teenagers, teenagers and adults. (The 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 m and even further to near 30m. 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.

Feather Award Arrow Award

To all juniors and adults wishing to apply for this training program please contact

David Scorah by e-mail scorah1@btinternet.com

Or Tel: 01268 735678.

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‘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 at-taining a ‘Six Gold End’. The form is a pain to complete, but gives you an incentive to achieve. Full details in ‘Archery UK’, www.gnas.org or see Neal or Roger.

The next edition of Junior News is planned for January. Should you wish to contribute, please send your work to Roger by before the end of December at roger.glover@mayflowerarchers.co.uk

Published by the Mayflower Archer 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 2010

The Junior Team

Junior Liaison Officer

Neal Howell 01375 674020

The ‘team’

Roger Glover 01277 650358

Martin Vidgeon-Hart David Scorah Lesley Howell

Junior Captain

Sam Yeates

Child Protection

Officers

Carron Brown 01702 344066

David Scorah 01268 735678

Junior Rankings Something that you may wish to consider is to send your best three 12 dozen scores to GNAS and get placed in the National ranking scheme. Collect your score sheets (or result sheets) and send them by the end of October. See www.gnas.org or ‘Archery UK’ for full details.

Club Diary There will be outdoor junior meetings every 2nd Saturday from 2—4 pm throughout the winter season. However, the first meet is 6th November at 10 am.

General Club evenings are on Friday evenings from 7 pm and Saturday mornings from 9 am at Mayflower School, Billericay.

Friday meetings 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th October, 5th 19th 26th November, 3rd December in the Sports Hall And 12th November, 10th December in the Gymnasium

Saturday meetings 2nd 9th 16th 233d 30th October, 20th 27th November in the Sports Hall

Shooting will probably resume 7th January 2011 in the Sports Hall.

22nd Oct Andy Harris League match Mayflower Schoo l 7 pm

23rd Oct Fun field shoot 2 x 14 3D Animals Barleylands 12.30 pm Assemby

31st Oct Mayflower FITA 18 Mayflower School Spaces remain for first session only.

5th Nov Andy Harris League match Mayflower School 7 pm

12th Nov Andy Harris League match Mayflower School 7 pm

19th Nov November Challenge GNAS Postal Round Mayflower School 7 pm

26th Nov November Challenge GNAS Postal Round Mayflower School 7 pm

6th Nov Junior Outdoor and Frostbite League Barleylands 10 am

10th Dec Andy Harris League match Mayflower School 7 pm

9th Dec Junior Outdoor and Frostbite League Barleylands 2 pm

16th Dec Christmas Fun Shoot and Barbeque Barleylands 11 am To be confirmed

15th Jan Junior Outdoor and Frostbite League Barleylands 2 pm

Details of Mayflower Fun Field shoot are available from Steve Fenton to whom you should send entries. Steve Fenton stephenjohnfenton@live.co.uk 01277 634133