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ADELAIDE ARCHERY CLUB NEWSLETTER

OCTOBER 2018 PAGE 1

A LAUREL AND HARDY EVENT

The club meeting on Friday 19 October was a

challenge for new vice-president, Attila Balla.

As Daniel Caon was away he was obliged to

chair the first meeting that he attended in that

position.

However, he did a fine job, with a little

coaching from Carol Ashlee, and a great many

humorous contributions from the floor.

Melissa Balla acted as secretary, and Kylie

Steyn attended her first meeting as

treasurer.

Congratulations

Keith Bown Winner of the

September Handicap Spoon

Topics from the club meeting Friday 19 October

Next beginners course in November: Coaching

assistants needed; please add your names to

James’s list on the board.

The recorder, Naomi Johnson, noted that 195

rounds were recorded in September, compared

with 185 last year.

The format for the Christmas break-up will be:

Juniors shoot in the morning;

Shared lunch with seniors;

Seniors shoot in the afternoon (any ideas for a nov

elty shoot or event? Let the tournament director,

Chris de Mello, know) followed by afternoon tea.

Should we continue with the Memorial Shoot as

only 8 past members attended this year? It was

proposed that we will shoot it in 2019, and in 2020

it will take place on 29 August to coincide with dig-

ging up the time capsule. Shooting committee to

decide

Chris de Mello

Tournament director

James Henriks

Coaching co-ordinator

Brendan Roberts

Junior club co-ordinator

Adelaide Archery Club Inc.

Cnr Bundeys Road & War Memorial Drive

North Adelaide 5006

PO Box 133, WalkerVille, SA 5081

Email info@adelaidearchery.org.au

Web www.adelaidearchery.org.au

Editor publicity@adelaidearcheryclub.org.au

News, letters, comments all

welcomed by the editor

And a very special treat for all the

chocolate lovers

A FREE GUIDED TOUR OF

HAIG’S CHOCOLATE FACTORY

154 GREENHILL ROAD, PARKSIDE

Thursday 15 November 3pm

Only 20 places available;

please put your name on the board.

MAJOR DUNCAN CLOUT MONDAY 1 OCTOBER

COMPOUND Graham Potts 181 Nick Bentley 173 Xavier Robinson 121 Mel Balla 118 Shirley Biggs 76 LONGBOW Nigel Steyn 97 John Cowie 74 Alan Chapple 64 Annette Humphries 48 Pam Pettman 44

RESULTS RECURVE Greg Opie 159 Chris Drown 131 Chris de Mello 121 Naomi Johnson 99 Julian Gambling 81 James Hendriks 47 BAREBOW RECURVE Tony Demaria 52

STATE TARGET CHAMPIONSHIPS

SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER

Intermediate Female Compound 1st Ailani Cox 1380

Cadet Mlale Compound 1st Nick Bentley 1365

Cadet Male Recurve 1st Shane Reeves 1149

2nd Angus Moffatt 748

Open Female Compound 3rd Melissa Balla 1129

Open Female Recurve 1st Naomi Johnson 973

Open Male Recurve 1st Chris de Mello 1187

2nd Simon Souphandavong 989

Master Male Compound 1st Attila Balla 1316

Master Male Recurve 1st Chris Drown 1194

Veteran Female Compound 3rd Sue Martin 1350

Veteran Male Compound 3rd Ken Osborne 1347

Veteran+ Female Compound 1st Aileen Anderson 1149

Veteran+ Female Longbow 1st Pam Pettman 734

Veteran+ Male Longbow 1st Dean Pettman 1008

TOURNAMENT RESULTS FOR ADELAIDE ARCHERY CLUB

OCTOBER 2018 Page 2

SOCIAL EVENTS

MELBOURNE CUP

LUNCH

LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL,

MELBOURNE ST, NORTH ADELAIDE

TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 12.30PM

Please put your name on the board,

and pre-order your lunch

Ladies and gentlemen best hat

prizes

Games, quizzes, sweepstake

The shot of the week:

Ron Bentley nails the tree!

Beginners join our club for all sorts of reasons,

but we like to think that one of them is that we

are a friendly, helpful bunch.

So give them a hand if they don’t know what to

do - for example, opening and closing butts,

closing the flags, recording lost arrows.

Bow International Magazine – Issue # 122 (March 2018– due to there having been no newsletter, some of these back

issues have not been reviewed, except in the report to the club meeting)

A. “Contact Check” – breaking blades, torn fletching or poor arrow flight-can be symptom of vane contact on your rest” - Duncan Busby

B. “New Year, New Start”- start year w/analysis of previous year – here’s how to do it – Lucy O’Sullivan

C. “Go for Your Goals”– analyses the role of self-compassion to manage your mindset in tricky situations – Erin Prior

D. “Release: 3 ESSENTIALS” – back to basics, if you’re having release problems or just improving your release skills– Tyler Domenech

E. “Plan and Prepare” – method of planning your year to maximise your time, hit your targets and avoid exhaustion – Crys-tal Gauvin

F. “Right Resolutions - to Improve your archery in 2018” – looking at cost/benefit style managing your time for maximum shooting improvement – Patrick Huston

G. “Fletching by Numbers” – reveals why 3 fletching’s per arrow is todays “standard” -James Park

H. “Additions and Alterations” – incorporating new equipment into your setup and shooting style to maximise improve-ment – Andrew Smith

I. ASK the Experts:

1. “What is Weight Matching” – building arrows to Olympic standard - Adrian Tippens

2. “How to get the ‘focus’ back……after a bad shot!” – Alistair Whittingham

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