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Changeable was the word of the day on Sunday, which encompassed both the weather and the form of some of the archers. Since the majority of the competition at the Island Games will be based on the WA 720, that was the round of the day. The Compounds shot at 50m, the Recurves at 70m. … Continue reading Club Report 14th May 2023

With the 2023 Island Games in Guernsey fast approaching, the Club focused on Team building at the weekend. With the help of a grant from Island Games sponsor Natwest, through their International Sport Development Programme, and money raised through bag packing, the Club was able to afford the services of international coaches Tony Drabble and … Continue reading Coaching Weekend 6/7th May 2023

Clearly unhappy that she had allowed a week to go by without setting a pb or breaking a Club record, junior Erin Hainge was even more focused than ever on Sunday. She was in no mood to allow the damp conditions to affect her. Erin, like everyone else, had turned up in waterproofs in the … Continue reading Club Report April 30th 2023

The Isle of Man Archery Club is pleased to announce the Squad for the Island Games due to be held in Guernsey from the 8th to the 14th July 2023. The squad will consist of teams in each of the two disciplines, together with a Team Manager and an Assistant Team Manager. There will be … Continue reading 2023 Island Games Team Announcement

Predictions for Sunday’s weather were not good, but fortunately the rain blew through on Saturday and settled into reasonably good shooting conditions. The round of the day was supposed to be a Metric I/Ladies WA 1440: 3 dozen arrows at each of four distances - 70, 60, 50 & 30m but for a variety of … Continue reading Club Report 23rd April 2023

Driving bands of rain meant that the morning session was cancelled but a few hardy souls, to quote the Club Chairman, decided they would shoot in the afternoon no matter what. In the end nine archers turned up to a dank, soggy but, mercifully, still afternoon, including the Chairman who changed his mind about staying … Continue reading Club Report 16th April 2023

Conditions were brutal at Greeba on Sunday. A biting east wind played havoc both on the shooting line and at the target face. Those who had not layered up against the cold regretted it. The rest wondered just how many layers they could add before they couldn’t shoot. The Recurves, as usual, had the worst … Continue reading Club Report 9th April 2023

Archery GB, the sport’s governing body, made sweeping changes to the Outdoor setup ahead of this season. It threw away the old handicap system and the rigid age/distance rules for adults that went with them. It also wiped out every archer’s established handicap, meaning everyone had to start again from scratch. Since the Outdoor season … Continue reading Club Report 2nd April 2023

Archery GB (our governing body in the UK), have recently overhauled a rarely mentioned area of the sport – Classifications & Handicaps. These are only used during the outdoor season. As someone who enjoys torturing myself with data and having used the old classification system for some time, I was kindly asked by the Club … Continue reading Classification & Handicap Updates

The Sunday of the Indoor season brought round the annual Indoor Championships with archers across all bow types setting their sights on the silverware. The Championship round was the WA 18; single face for Trad, Bare and Longbow, triple face for Compound and Recurve. The junior round would have been a Portsmouth 3 spot but … Continue reading Club Indoor Championships 2023