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Originally Posted by NoAngel  What do beginners expect from archery?
It seems increasingly common that beginners are taking up archery, shooting for 6 to 12 months, and then give up, why is this? At the end of our clubs last beginner’s course we have 16 people join the club, we are now lucky if we see more than 2 of those more than once a month.
I would like to know what a beginner expects from a club once they take up archery and what they would like to see. What methods of encouragement could be used to keep people in the sport, and what puts a beginner off from coming back to the sport after a break.
Obviously some people give it up because they decide it’s not the sport for them, others give up cause they find it’s to hard, and others cause they cannot commit the time they would like, well that’s fair enough. But I am interested in the people who are keen, and want to do well, but feel that they are not getting the support and encouragement that they would like.
Your thoughts? |
At the club I shoot at, the new beginners all state the same thing, theres no one to coach us, so we dont know if we are doing it right, its a general feeling of being left alone, and some folks are too shy to actually ask "what do I need to do", also as a new comer myself of 12 months, I felt very much an outsider, there were established groups, recurves, compounds, and I found it very hard to become part of the club, I think I am just about part of the furniture, but I am fairly outgoing, the quiet shy ones soon seem to disapear, dispite some folks doing there best to make tham feel welcome
