As discussed at club meeting a club scoring night will be held on the following dates

• Sunday 31st of May
• Sunday 28th of June
• Sunday 26th of July
• Sunday 23rd of August
• Sunday 27th of September Neath closed tournament (round to be decided)

National Rounds – doesn’t matter bow type or experience

• seniors
  • 4 dozen at 60yds,2 dozen at 50yds
• u16
  • 4 dozen at 50yds,2 dozen at 40yds
• u14
  • 4 dozen at 40yds,2 dozen at 30yds
• u12
  • 4 dozen at 30yds,2 dozen at 20yds

Seniors will shoot under a handicap system so making it fairer for all

It will be the same round each month so hopefully you be able to see any improvement you are making.

Please can you let me know if you are interested beforehand and if you are taking part can you try and be early on those nights.

If you do not want to join us on the scoring you can still shoot as normal on these nights

Jon

Please note our new Tuesday shooting will start on 12th May.

No pure carbon arrows allowed outdoors due to the difficulty of finding lost ones and all arrows shot must be found as this is a multi use ground.

Please do not be afraid of saying you have lost an arrow as it does happen but it needs to be found before we can go home.

As stated in a club meeting all members must now show competency at the shorter distances before moving to a further distance please seek advice before moving to a further distance.

Jon

With regards to our meeting being held at the Aberdulais Golf Range on Thursday 20th of November at 7pm, can all members please make every effort to attend as we need to have a club discussion on a possible move of our outdoor season to Bryncoch Rugby Club.

As this could affect the future of the club it is vital we have as many members at the meeting as possible.

Thanks Jon

Congratulations to Steve Russell and Alan Whately on coming 1st and 3rd in Castle Archers FITA 25 Gents Recurve with scores of 506 and 502 – very nice shooting.

Also it was really nice to see Neath Archers being represented by 5 people looked great on the line all the black shirts.

The Glamorgan Archery Association will be running a County Squad consisting of 3 days over January, February and March 2015.

Applications for the squad are invited from archers of all disciplines & bow styles.

The squad is open to everyone regardless of classification.

If you are interested in improving your archery then attending these sessions will help you.

This is an example of some of the things that we will cover in these three days:

• Shooting technique
• Equipment set up
• Maintenance
• Basic fitness for archery

You will be expected to come with an open mind and be ready and willing to work.

There will be 3 days in total and the dates are as follows:

•  January 17th
• February 14th
• March 14th

Each session will run from 10.00am to 4.00pm. and will be held at Blandy Jenkins Llanharan.

The cost of the days will be £45.00  per person payable at the start. Unfortunately we have had to increase the cost from last year due to increased rental charges.

Jon, Graham and Tim attended the course in 2014 and found it very informative. If you would like more information, speak to them.

Closing date for applications: Dec 5th  2014.

In order to make the squad viable we will need to have a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 12 people in the squad. If we do not have the required number of applications then we will look at an alternative for those that have applied.