Club rituals

[LineCutter]

Originally Posted by Rishathra

At the end of our indoor league rounds we shoot six arrows aiming to score the highest points followed by six arrows aiming for the lowest possible score. A miss in the lowest end counts as a 10, then subtract one from the other and you have a winner!

That sounds like it could be fun ... & with a bit of thought could be useful for handicapping unequal contests too. (Metric scoring for the high ones & Imperial for the low ones for those less able. Compound 10s for the better recurves etc. etc)

[Tobytoolbag]

We too have a Christmas ritual - last shoot before Christmas, we have the 'Christmas Pudding Shoot', which we run as a (heavily) handicapped 6-arrow head-to-head at 20 yards.

Winner is awarded (perhaps unsurprisingly!) a Christmas pudding made by our culinary expert and Club Sec, Stuart. Runners up get Christmas Cake and even the lowliest placed archer walks away with at least a box of Co-op mince pies...

[Timid Toad]

"Don't know much about it myself, but when we shoot with Birmingham Uni., before the shoot they gather round in a circle around their captain who wears a colourful headdress, worship a Toucan (i kid you not), curse their opponents (all in good jest), and finally sacrifice a Marsbar using an ACE.."

It's a tradition that's been going on for plus 30 years, except we didn't have ACEs back then, and the headdress is new. 222 is the number of the beast (Toucan). The toucan came about because the name of the club had to change from Chamberlain Bowmen to something containing Birmingham Uni and the addition of a mascot made up "BUTTS" very nicely. They did have an awful lot of other quaint traditions too, but those not in the know will never see them. Its nice that penniless students aren't too sensible sometimes, and how can anyone mock with green or red hair?

At my present club, if we're all feeling pretty sharp, we play archery darts.

[mathewsmainliner]

Originally Posted by english_archer

The ritual for a lot of our club members seems to be "turn up when everything is set up go home before put away time" Like a lot of clubs it's the same people doing everything as normal

SO TRUE, A WELL OBSERVED TRAIT OF MANY A CLUB ARCHER!!!!!!!