Black Stag Archers

L1 Coach Jane, proudly holds her Frostbite season’s Trophy, after winning in the Ladies Recurve Division! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🏆🏆🏆🏹🏹🏹

Our BSA Club Social last night. Fun evening with lots of laughter, cold beers, Guinness and stories of adventurous escapades :)

Look forward to the next one!

Well done to our Club Chairman Paul, who shoots Longbow, and has achieved his Bowman 1st Class 🏹🎉👏🏽

Who needs fancy apps or a drone camera to do an alignment check… this random chair on the field will do!

On Sunday, we had our second coaches workshop, held by L2 Coach Phil. This was on Coaching Archers with Disabilities… such an important area of coaching for the sport of Archery to grow and be inclusive.

Well done to everyone who took part and to Coach Phil for his knowledge.

There was some thoughtful feedback from some of the members:

“The course highlighted the challenges that prospective and established disabled archers face, whether it’s a visual or physical impairment. However, it also showed that with the many and varied aids available, it is entirely possible for anyone to enjoy archery at a competent level.”. - Barry, Field Captain.

“I really enjoyed the session to support archers with disabilities. While it was fun to try as an archer, it also helped me understand some of the elements we take for granted that others would struggle with, like getting to the line or nocking an arrow!” - Sandy, Coach.

So… newly qualified Coach Sandy took part in the Green Dragon Bowmen Windsor Shoot last weekend. Not only did he achieve a great feat by shooting in the scorching heat, he also managed to emulate his hero, Robin Hood, by performing one! If you are wondering what that is, can you spot an arrow, inside of another arrow in the picture? There’s your answer.

Even got his Robin Hood mentioned in the GDB web post!

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Even when they are packed up and about to leave… a dedicated Coach will sacrifice their time to help an archer 🙏🏽 🏹

More 252 Badge Awards for our new members, who are making some fantastic progress with their archery! Well done all! 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏅🏅🏅🏅

Well done to these happy BSA chaps, who managed to brave some unfavourable weather conditions and secure 2x Golds and 6x Silvers at the Bill Tucker Memorial Shoot in Colchester this weekend!

New club member from our April beginner’s course achieving his second 252 Award badge, scoring at a further distance!

Keep it up… Hopefully Coach Phil has enough badges in stock 😂