Errrrm, Handicap system question

[hooktonboy]

Thanks Tel and Furface for checking that one out for me. Much appreciated,
Steve.

For what my opinions worth I think you should be allowed to start again if you're swapping hands - and I'm sure I've read that somewhere too. Will see if I can find it.

[tel]

You're more than welcome Steve - though it isn't a question of checking it out - it's the only gauge I have as almost nobody else at my present club records anything, so without the handicap system I'd be doing little more than playing cowboys and injuns!

[hooktonboy]

Hi Tel. IMHO it is a bit of a shame when people aren't interested in handicaps and classification . I think in any sport - even purely for pleasure - you want some measure of progress. I try to encourage all our beginners to keep a close eye on this and I try very hard to award classifications promptly and publicly. I'm lucky at our club - there's some very experienced archers who encourage the others to shoot rounds and track scores.

Its certainly my experience that the ones who don't have an interest in a "measure" quickly lose interest in the sport as a whole.

By the way we've got a really good records officer too (in case he's reading this!!) but I'm organising a handicap shoot and I wanted to make sure I'd got the basics right.
S

[Kellog]

Thank you for explaining the handicap system! Its always been a mystery to me before!