Last Sunday’s county match against Essex ended in a convincing win for the visitors in both senior and junior matches, due largely to below par performances by the County’s recurve archers.  The team and individual scores can be downloaded in pdf format using the links below:

• Team Results
• Individual Scores

In stark contrast to the Hampshire match in April, the shoot was blessed with near-perfect conditions for archery throughout most of the day with not a single fleece and barely a beanie in sight.

Congratulations to the Essex team and thanks to the judges, Keith and Gwen Mills.

Thanks also to Crawley AC who hosted the match at their new ground.

HURRY HURRY - entries close on the 1st July for these Tournaments:

Free 9-dozen shoot on the 11th July

Double FITA 70 shoot on the 12th July

Entry forms are located on the Tournaments page

Liz Bowyer managed to retain her SCAS Ladies Recurve Title against a strong potential challenge from Barbara Williams of Stortford, in the process raising the Sussex Record for the 2-way Single Clout by 18 points to 100. Russ French took the 3rd-place medal in the Gents Recurve section.

The Martlets Guild is the coaching arm of SCAA and delivers coaching and coach training principally for Sussex Archers.

A Level 1 coach course has now been registered and there is still space on the course if you are interested.

The course runs over a three-month period on four separate dates followed by two assessments. The first date is planned for September and the assessments around January/February time.

Venue for the course is Copthorne, near Crawley.

The course is run at cost (non-profit) and is £120 per person.

If you are interested contact Les Bartlett, Sussex County Coaching Organiser, in person on 01243 545160 or lesbartlettcco@btinternet.com

A free Flash based program is now available to download for your PC (archery-calculator).

The calculator will:

• convert from True Draw Length to the AMO standard Draw Length and back, in cm and inches
• convert grains to grams to ounces and Troy ounces in any order
• calculate the let-off percentage of a compound
• calculate the Forward of Centre (FoC) of an arrow

The program has been virus checked using CA Antivirus software and no responsibility will be accepted in the highly unlikely event of something nasty being in there. It is supplied free of charge and without warranty.

Enjoy.

Steve Hooper
Archery Coaching & Events LLP

The SCAA Committee have decided to publish the rankings of Sussex archers.

For a trial period of this season, it is proposed that the Records Officer runs a ranking table for all archers who shoot FITA/York/Hereford or Bristol rounds, shot at tournaments.

These Tables will then be used as the primary source of archers performance for county team selection. Scores for the GNAS rounds will be converted to an equivalent FITA score using the handicap tables. FITA & equivalent FITA scores will be used to determine the total of each archer’s best three rounds.

Tables will be run for Ladies, Gentlemen, Junior Ladies & Junior Gentlemen in the following categories: Recurve, Compound Unlimited, Barebow & Longbow.

Junior archers are eligible for consideration for the Senior team but must submit scores for their respective senior rounds.

Whereas the rankings tables will form the prime basis of the county team selection, the selectors reserve the right to consider other factors as necessary.

Each individual archer is responsible for submitting their scores to the County Records Officer.

These tables will be updated regularly in the RECORDS section of this website.

Any queries to the Records Officer

Three shoots organised by Guildford AC for your diary this Summer:

• Wednesday 10th June, Take A Break Shoot (St George and Albion rounds)
• Saturday 20th June, Little Acorn Shoot for Juniors (Western rounds)
• Monday 31st August, Acorn Shoot (record status, Hereford and Bristol rounds)

Entry forms can be downloaded by clicking this link.