| People take up and enjoy Archery for all sorts of reasons and long may this be so. In the three clubs that I shoot at very few of the members take part in competitions or go for classifications.This does not mean that they enjoy the sport any the less, nor does it mean that they are not as keen or not as able as those that enter competions. One of the guys I know shoots longbow (three or four times a week) to a very high standard and would probably win most of the tournaments he entered but he is simply not interested in the competitive side of things.
A tournament does not have to be 'competitive', think of it as a good days shooting for very little money, meeting old friends and making new ones. Some of the people I know enter most of the local tournaments and never finish in the top half, they are not competing against other people but against themselves-trying for pb's, or mainly just for a laugh and a good day out. I dont mean this to sound dissrespectful in any way but if you if you are bothered about classification then why not give tournaments a go.
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