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Ready to elevate your archery game? Join the fun of the Archery GB January Challenge, a virtual archery competition open to all our members.
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"We live in a rural area so sport is vital to enhance people's mental health and wellbeing."
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23 November marked a significant milestone for Belfast's Muslim community, as the City of Belfast Archery Club generously hosted the city’s first Project Rimaya beginner’s course.
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The investment includes an increase of 7% in funding for archery and 10% in funding for para archery.
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Sittingbourne Community College Archers' Adam Kenyon has been awarded the BBC Sports Personality’s Unsung Hero award this year for the South East Region.
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The British archers to make the list include gold medal Paralympians Jodie Grinham and Nathan Macqueen, world number one compound woman Ella Gibson, and the youngest archer to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Megan Havers.
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This weekend, the tradeshow at the National Indoors Weekend in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, is packed with affordable and practical presents that are sure to delight any bow enthusiast
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"Out of something negative, there's often a step forward into something better."
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"Our experience with the Blue Peter team was an incredibly exciting one, and they made sure that we came away with our very own shiny Blue Peter badges!"
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"So far, it's been very popular with the junior members, they like the fact we're trying to help them enjoy their archery and understand they may have different needs to others."
Read ArticleA guide to the different types of archery available and the bows you can use. Field, target, indoor, 3D, flight, clout and para archery can all be shot using recurve bows, compound bows, longbows or barebows.
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Target archery is the type of archery practiced at the Olympics, and is the version most beginners learn first. Archers shoot a set number of arrows at targets set at specified distances on a flat surface.
A field archery course is set up over woodland and rough terrain. Archers shoot a specified number of arrows at different targets in sequence.
Flight archery is shooting an arrow over the longest possible distance. There is no target, but it does require a very large, flat area - something the size of an aerodrome.
Clout archery is an ancient form of archery that was used as military training in the Middle Ages. The target is the clout, which is a small flag on a vertical stick, stuck in the ground and placed up to 160 metres away.
