| Encouraging beginners
I do think regions should try more to encourage beginners - a lot of the shorter tournaments have Nationals, but as add-ons to the York\Hereford - and only allow U\C or 3rd class.
There is a big jump in standard from 72 arrows at 60/50 to a Hereford or York. I always remember my first York, it was a nightmare I got backache picking all of the arrows up.
It would be good to see more archery series events within a region, getting a few clubs to hold the primer events, and then a final event that is based on handicapping from the previous 3 best score out of 5 for example. I do think this would encourage less adventurous archers to shoot more, as they will be shooting with people they know on a regular basis.
Handicaps are very much underutilised at the moment, and a lot of this is to do with trust, but if it is a handicap based on a series some of this mistrust can be removed. |