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Beginners coaching course
A coaching course for beginners will start on 20th March 2010 at Chessington
Bowmen at 10am. The session last 1 hour and is suitable for juniors as well as adults. The course last six weeks
and costs £50, this includes coaching, equipment hire and insurance. The coaching will be provided by our qualified
Level 1 coach Peter Wood. If you or someone you know would like to have a go at archery please use contact below:
Email coaching
Shooting again in 2010
Chessington Bowmen have started shooting in 2010 after a break
over Christmas and the recent cold weather. Although it was rather muddy around the targets we started shooting
again on the 23rd Jan.
Junior Nationals and Surrey Rankings Four juniors travelled to the British Junior Indoor Championships at Lilleshall on the 5th/6th December to shoot a
Portsmouth round. Richard White came 10th in the U18 boys recurve with a score of 569. Emma Smith scored 418 in the
U16 girls recuve and came 31st. Laura Smith came 8th in the U13 girls recurve with a score of 463. Gareth
Trimble was due to shoot in the U18 boys longbow but did not. The following night he set a club record of 301 which
would have given him a silver medal at the Nationals.
All four of these juniors are listed on the new 2009
Surrey outdoor rankings, both Richard (junior boys recurve) and Gareth (junior boys longbow) top their junior tables.
Richard is also second on the senior men recurve table and Simon Buchanan took 4th spot. Laura Smith took 4th spot in
the junior girls recurve, Emma was 5th, Danni 6th and Georgina 7th. Duncan Garner took 7th spot. This is the first
year Surrey has ranked all its archers who have shot at least 3 144 arrow rounds. The full results are at:
http://www.btinternet.com/~wac.archery/surrey-section/ranking.htm
Five Chessington Bowmen took part in the Surrey Indoor
Champrionships at Woking Leisure Centre on Sunday 29th November. On a blustery and wet day it was calm and peaceful
in the big hall. The five CB's that braved the weather were Simon, Emma, Richard, Laura and Andrew. The medal
winners were as follows:
Andrew (bronze) overall handicap
Richard (bronze) overall junior boys recurve
Laura (bronze) overall junior girls recurve
The first ever Chessington Bowmen Pumpkin Shoot was a great
success on 31st October. 19 archers, took part in small teams of 3 or 4. It was very satisfying to hear the squishing
sound as an arrow hit the pumpkins. Many thanks to Martin and Duncan for providing the cats and characters, to
Simon for providing prizes and to Andrew for the pumpkins. There is one correction to the results. Bob Bulbeck
won the Seniors Barebow section (not longbow) and Gareth Trimble won Senior Longbow.
Click here for results
Click here for photos (by Paul Smith)
Juniors honoured by Kingston Chessington's outstanding junior archers have been honoured
by Kingston Council. They made up 4 of the 5 members of the Kingston archery team in the London Youth Games, the additional
member was Jess Cosson from Spelthorne. The archers won three awards at the Kingston Sports Awards held
at Chessington Community College new building on Oct 15th. They were rewarded for their individual medals and the team gold.
They also won the team of the games. Richard White won outstanding sportsman of the games. Emma Smith, Laura Smith
and Ducan Garner also made up the team. The team manager was Andrew Trimble. Well done to all of them.
The beautiful autumnal conditions were condusive to a great
shoot for all our 18 archers. It was a decent turnout and a 50% increase in numbers of archers on last year. You
can see your indidividual score on the handicap and ladder page in the file called outdoor scores 2009. It was a really
close battle for both the gents recurve and the best junior. The junior champion is the junior archer who shoots the
best handicap allowance. You will have to wait until the Christmas dinner to find out who took top spot this year
by only 11 points. It is worth noting that there were no less than 6 club records today and you can see
these on the Records page.
Thanks to Paul Smith for the photos. Click here for a slideshow of Paul's photo's in a new browser window.
Chessington Bowmen took 10 medals, (including 5 golds) at the Woking Open Shoot on 13th September, despite
the gusty wind. Star of the day had to be Kevin White who took a bronze medal in the Gents longbow. Kevin has
been recovering from an eye operation and he has made an excellent come back. Winners list included:
Gold:
Jnr girls team (Laura, Emma and Danni); Best Jnr Girl (Laura); Bristol 3 Girls (Emma) Bristol 4 Girls (Laura); Bristol 4 Boys
(Duncan)
Silver: Bristol 3 girls (Danni)
Bronze: Gents Longbow (Kevin), Gents Barebow (Bob); Bristol 3 girls (Georgina);
3rd best junior girl overall (Emma)
Lady Paramount Prizes; Kevin and Andrew
On the same day Simon Buchanan
shot for the Senior Surrey team for the first time in the Senior Inter-counties match at Andover. He scored 958
in a York round.
The Southern Counties Archery Association (SCAS) Junior championships were on Saturday 4th September. Laura
Smith (Bristol IV) and Richard White (York) won their catgeories, Emma Smith scored a PB in the Bristol III class. Duncan
Garner shot in the Bristol III class.
Peter, Bob and Gareth took part in the Surrey Longbow autumn
shoot on the same day but they did not win any medals.
Chessington shine at County Champs The 56th Surrey County Outdoor Target Championships took place at Imber
Court on Sunday 19th July. Although it is our County Championship it is also a world record status FITA Star so
it a high profile event. This was a very successful event for Chessington Bowmen
who claimed a total of 13 medals, including 8 gold medals and 6 county champion titles. The list of medalists is
as follows: FITA Men - barebow - Bob - silver FITA Men - longbow - Peter - bronze (4th) FITA junior men - recurve -
Richard - gold (County Champion) Metric 3 girls - recurve - Danielle - gold (County
Champion) Metric 3 girls - recurve - Emma - silver Metric
4 girls - recurve - Laura - gold (County Champion) Metric 4 girls - recurve - Georgina
- silver Metric 4 boys - recurve - Duncan - gold (County Champion) Handicap - senior men - Bob - gold Handicap - junior girls - Laura -
bronze County Junior Boy Champion - recurve - Richard - gold County Junior Girl Champion - recurve - Laura - gold County Junior
Pairs - recurve - Richard and Laura - gold Laura
and Richard were outstanding, Laura took home 3 golds and a bronze and Richard 3 golds. I think everyone at the prize
giving knew who Chessington Bowmen were by the end. Andrew Trimble, the event organiser, was very grateful for all the voluntary help he received from so many
Chessington Bowmen members and parents on the day. It all helped to contribute to an excellent day.
Stunning weekend for juniors Chessington Bowmen juniors excelled themselves on the weekend of 4th and
5th July 2009.
At the London Youth Games the Kingston team (made up of Richard, Emma, Laura and Duncan from Chessington,
plus Jess from Spelthorne) won the team gold for the first time ever. Laura, Duncan and Richard also won individual
gold and Emma a bronze. Georgina (shooting for Wandsworth) won the Girls Head to Head knockout. Richard scored
938 for the Windsor round, a junior county record.
The next day, Sunday 5th, Richard and Gareth both shot in the British Junior Championships at Lilleshall
in Shropshire. Gareth shot his longbow on the Bristol 1/Hereford round scoring 115. Both won silver medals and
both broke the junior county record for their bowstyle. Richard scored 1076 on the York round making him the second
best junior recurve archer in Great Britain. This score is also Richard's first ever Master Bowman score, quite an achievement
for someone who is still a junior.
An amazing weekend with unparalled sucess for all our juniior archers. Well done everyone.
[more photos to follow]
Mole Valley Bowmen host the Sheila Brown Memorial Shoot at Thirfield School
in Leatherhead, only short distance from Chessington. Richard, Simon and Bob Bulbeck all shot the York round (that
starts at a 100yds if you didn't know). Bob managed a personal best of 112 with his longbow. Simon and Richard
just missed getting a 1000, still good scores. Gareth Trimble shot a Hereford/Bristol 1 for the first time scoring 115,
which was good enough for two medals, gold for best junior longbow on the Hereford and a bronze for third best for handicap
of all the juniors.
Chessington Bowmen were top of the tree at the Little Acorn junior shoot
on the 20th of June. They won gold in 8 categories and 1 silver, the most sucessful haul the juniors have ever had at
this shoot.
James Robbins shot in the short western but did not win any medals. Laura Smith took silver
in the short junior western (girls recurve) behind the winner, Georgina Speller. Duncan Garner won the short junior
western (boys recurve). Emma Smith won the junior western (girls recurve) Richard White won the western (boys recurve).
Overall winners of high score of the day were Gareth Trimble (all longbows, 228) Georgina (Girls recurve,
732) and Richard (boys recurve, 800). Laura, Georgina and Richard's combined score also gave then the team trophy.
Gareth, Georgina and Richard all set junior county records!
Rivernook two day event 2009 Rivernook host a two day event at Imber Court, the same field used for
the Surrey FITA Star. On day 1 there is a double FITA 70m event and on day 2 there is an Olympic Head to Head round
of just 12 arrows. The H2H is preceded by a FITA 70m qualifying round for each bow style. Richard and Simon did
fairly well on day 1, Richard's combined score was 1156 and Simon 1136, both good scores.
However, there was some serious competition from some seriously good archers who had come from all
over the UK to compete in this event, including several GB squad archers. Simon Needham (ex-GB) broke the Masters World
record on Day 1 for archers aged 50 or over.
Andrew joined Richard and Simon on Day 2 for the H2H. He had the honour of being ranked 51st
(and last) and went out after just 12 arrows in round 1, that's about a £1 an arrow! Richard and Simon did slightly
better but were eliminated in round 2. It was a pleasure to shoot in such talented company, even if we did get whipped.
This is an exciting format of archery that is really worth having a go at.
Richard White and Simon Buchanan shot in the Spelthorne Open on the 7th
of June 2009. Rich just pipped Simon to 4th place with a score of 1028 in the York round, a Junior Master Bowman score.
Simon was only 6 points behind.
At the club on Saturday 6th June we shot a National round. 5 of the archers shot a club record.
Simon set a new adult recurve club record of 506 for the Long National breaking the last remaining record held by Keith Passmore.
Keith used to be a club member until about 3 years ago and now works full time at Quicks. Gina Speller set a junior
record for the Short Junior National round. With her last twelve arrows she shot a perfect score of 108, that's 12 golds
in a row! Well done Gina!
See the results page or click here for more details
Richard White and Simon Buchanan shot in the Spelthorne Open on the 7th
of June 2009. Rich just pipped Simon to 4th place with a score of 1028 in the York round, a Junior Master Bowman score.
Simon was only 6 points behind.
At the club on Saturday 6th June we shot a National round. 5 of the archers shot a club record.
Simon set a new adult recurve club record of 506 for the Long National breaking the last remaining record held by Keith Passmore.
Keith used to be a club member until about 3 years ago and now works full time at Quicks. Gina Speller set a junior
record for the Short Junior National round. With her last twelve arrows she shot a perfect score of 108, that's 12 golds
in a row! Well done Gina!
See the results page or click here for more details
We have two new names on the front page for the first time. Matt
Gregory and Pete Stevens went to the Fox Open shoot in Kent on May 31st. This was the lads first competition
outside the club and they shot really well, Matt scoring 650 and Pete 493 on the mens recurve. Matt kept up the Chessington
Bowmen tradition of coming away with a medal, winning a silver medal for 2nd place on the Albion round, well done to Matt
and to Pete. Fox Archers do several tournaments a year, for more details see their web site:
Middlesex Championships 09
The Middlesex championships are a two day event over the spring bank holiday
weekend. Simon and Richard shot a York round in the blazing sunshine on the Sunday. Richard shot an impressive
1038, which is a Junior Master Bowman (JMB) score and a junior club record. Simon shot 939, which is still a very good
score.
On the Monday it was a metric round. Simon and Andrew shot the Men's
FITA round. It felt as though we had three seasons in one day. Just as Andrew was ready to go and shoot
his first end his tent blew away and was trying to peg it down when the start timer went! In the middle of the day it
was hot, sunny and dead calm. At the end of the day it felt autumnal with rain in the air. Simon shot a fantastic 1101
and Andrew shot a not quite so fantastic 573, but still a Personal Best by a large margin.
The new timing lights, jointly owned by Middx and Surrey which we tested recently at the club, worked
brilliantly apart from when the Director of Shooting appeared to fall asleep (he is well over 80!).
The Wand Shoot (is it the Rod Stewart as someone once described it?)
took place in Leatherhead in very windy and wet conditions on May 17th. For once there were no medals for Chessington
Bowmen. Top dog of the day for CB was Andrew Trimble who had 6 hits and took 4th place. That might not seem
like a very good score but the winner, Paul Grinham of Mole Valley, scored 12 out 60 arrows. The wand is a piece of
foam, backed by wood, which is 4 inches wide and for the adult men placed at 100 yards. It is like shooting at a match
stick, that's what it looks like from the shooting line! Richard White scored 5 on the 100 yds, Bob scored 2 with his
American flatbow. Kevin and Gareth were unable to hit the target, and they were not the only ones. A very silly
competition.
We shot a long metric round on Saturday 9th May 2009. This was an opportunity
to shoot using the new Surrey/Middx FITA timing lights. Shooting with the lights introduces a different discipline
but everyone enjoyed the new experience. Although there were several club records the stars of the round
were Georgina Speller and Laura Smith shooting on the Long Metric IV as they both shot their first Junior Bowman score!
Well done Georgina and Laura.
The spring edition of the Surrey Longbow Championships took place at Woking
Archery Club on Saturday 2nd May 2009. Three Chessington Bowmen took part, Peter, Bob and Gareth shot their longbows
on a lovely summer afternoon and all three set new Personal bests. Bob set a new club record for the Western
round scoring 256 and beat Peter by only 1 point. Gareth scored 213 and took gold in the junior boys longbow division.
The Kingston team trial for the London Youth Games on 25th April saw 9
junior archers take to the line, 8 of whom were from Chessington Bowmen. It was a very competitive trial this year.
The youngsters all shot very well. The archers selected to represent Kingston in the LYG archery final on 4th July at
Crystal Palace Sports Centre are as follows:
Richard White, Jess Cosson (Spelthorne), Laura Smith, Emma Smith and Duncan Garner. Reserves
are James Robbins (Windsor Round) and Dani Tighe (Short Windsor Round).
This will be a strong team this year and we are hopeful that they will come home with both individual
and team medals.
The Pagoda shoot is hosted by Royal Richmond Archers on the Old Deer Park
in sight of the Pagoda in Kew Gardens, which is 247 years old this year. It is usually the first outdoor shoot of the
summer. Chessington Bowmen did very well this year, the 10th anniversary of the shoot, by taking away two golds and
a silver medal.
Richard White beat all the senior men to win the trophy for the Men's recurve on the Albion round
with an excellent score of 884. Gareth Trimble retained his junior longbow trophy for the second year in a row.
Bob Bulbeck won a silver in the men's longbow on the Windsor round with a score of 359, a club record. Andrew Trimble
also shot a 621 on the Windsor.
There was also a special 10th Anniversary trophy of the pagoda which Gareth narrowly missed out on
winning. This was awarded to any archer who scored the age of the pagoda, 247 or closest to it. This was Gareth's
exact score, however another archer took the trophy with the same score but with 10 gold's to Gareth's 9. Pipped at
the post!
Seven club records were set in the Warwick round on Saturday 21st March.
This is a round we have not shot before. See club records and also see results page
Ladder competition has restarted
We have run the ranking round for the 2009 Ladder competition. There
are three ladders, junior recurve, longbow and adult recurve. The results of this qualifying round are in the handicap and ladder section. Juniors are doing well in all three sections. Danni Tighe leads the junior recurve, Richard White leads
the adult recuve (older junior boys shoot with the adults) and Gareth Trimble is third in the longbow. Anyone
can join the ladder who missed the ranking round, but they join at the bottom. See the bottom of the page on Ladder 2009 for the rules of the ladder. The idea of the ladder is to challenge the
archer on the rung above you to a head to head competition over 36 arrows. If you beat them you take their place on
the ladder.
First Gold of 2009
The first gold (and silver) went to Simon Buchanan at the Angemering indoor
shoot on the South Coast. Simon shot a triple Worcester. His two best rounds won him a silver medal in the gents
recurve division and his combination of all three rounds won him gold. Well done Simon.
The club shooting diary is now published on the events page. We are
going to have an internal competition at least once a month. We start with a ranking round for the new ladder competition
on 7th March.
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