Vice Presidents Report

Hi to All

It’s been quite a relaxed start to the year which has been good for a change. We have been cruising along quite nicely with both indoor and outdoor shoots being well attended by members.

Indoor this year has been well attended by members, hopefully the good attendance continues. We will continue to shoot every Thursday until the numbers of shooters drops. Indoor gives you all a chance to fine tune your bow as well as your form. There are usually 3 coaches and now 2 coaches in training available to you at indoor which brings me to the next paragraph.

Congratulations to both Irene Hardy and Mick Brett who successfully attended the coaching course at the Avon Valley club last week. Two new coaches with new ideas and coaching techniques will not only ease the work done by Rob and co; but will be a huge benefit to our club. So if you do have a problem or you want to find an extra point or to have a yarn to the coaches it can’t hurt and you may be surprised in the results.

Sundays continue to be well attended with very respectable scores coming in, in all forms of archery we shoot. 3D and ABA continues to be most popular with IFAA not far behind.
Thank you to Karl, Wes and their many helpers for providing us with a combination of great ranges and great shots which I believe are as good if not better than any I have shot.
The introduction of the Axe and Knife organised by John Thoroughgood adds another positive for our members. It is now a requirement at all branch shoots so to be able to run our own will not only benefit members but those who attend branch shoots.
Branch shoots this year have been well attended by our members. Last year we averaged 5 members per branch shoot, so far this year it has more than doubled to 11.

Branch shoots are a good opportunity for member to shoot other rangers, compete against archers of their own grade from different clubs, camp out, sit back and relax with a beverage or two, sounds good doesn’t it, well it is.

To all our members making tracks to Wagga for the worlds and nationals good luck, relax and have a good time. Oh yer, shoot some good arrows as well.

CLUB SCENE

By the time you read this we will have in place another container. This will be set up for a workshop and storage for our paper targets it will be next to the black tank behind indoor targets. Keep an eye on the notice board for our next working bee and upcoming meetings.

It’s late, I’m tired and I’m going to bed.

More next time Mal