[jojo]

That happened in the club I was in a few years ago, where a couple of 18 year olds turned up one night and wanted to join the club, one of them had brought his own compound bow with him and I whom was in charge at the time banned the use of the bow for the first six weeks, on the grounds that it was an old bow which had plastic coated cables on it, and there was no way I was going to allow a bow like that on the range where it had no history. At the end of the day in my oppinion its down to a coach of the given dicipline to check out the equipment and to pass or fail it. Generally in the past I have always prefered that any beginner use club equipment as the basic equipment can enforce the archer to learn the basics and the dynamics of a basic archery. The chances that anything would go wrong otherwise is slim, but do you want to be the first for it to happen to you in your club.