This week shoot was a Fita 900 this round is shot over three different distances 60, 50 and 40 metres and 30 arrows at each distance. Changeable weather conditions with south westerly winds gusting and the sun trying to shine through the cloudy conditions, with all that to contend with two new club records were shot by Tony Hartley in the recurve discipline, Hartley still on a high from a trip to France and coming back engaged, and Adrian Bruce gets to grips with the new release to get the compound record. The second spot on the recurve podium went to a limping and pain hit Dave Berry persevering with a Knee problem and on the next step was Michael Tancurin, and the early retirement from Colin Moore with a neck injury rounded of the recurve. The compound podium was close between Adrian Bruce and Peter Mumford with only 3 points between them after the first distance in favour of Bruce,
Then Bruce puts another 6 point advantage after the second distance, Mumford pulls one point back but has to settle for the second step on the podium.

Gents Recurve
Tony Hartley 90 17 6 755 CR/IGQ/PB
Dave Berry 89 13 1 716 PB
Michael Tancurin 89 10 2 689 PB
Colin Moore 2 0 0 0

Gents Compound
Adrian Bruce 90 32 11 826 CR/PB
Peter Mumford 90 30 8 818 PB

And news from across the wet stuff sees three club archers shooting at the fifth and last round of the Archery GB National Series down in Exmouth UK they are Sarah Rigby, Charlotte George and sister Aalin. This two day event consists of a Fita 70 qualifying round followed by the Head to Head round on the Saturday and a full Fita round on the Sunday. On Saturday’s Fita 70 Rigby put in a great performance just too narrowly miss out on the podium slot and finish in forth. The Isle of Man Archery Club would like to send their congratulations to Tony and Moira on their engagement.
Next weeks scheduled Stafford round has been postponed to organize an extra double Fita 70 to aid the commonwealth games contestants with extra practice with the games only five weeks away and as normal field setup is 9:30 with sighters at 10:25 for a 10:30 shoot and the afternoon sighters at 1:55 for a 2pm shoot.

August 8th 2010 Fita

This week Fita round was held in warm calm slightly overcast conditions great for shooting, long awaited return from Dave Berry after a short lay off saw him send 11 of the target face and he would like to thank everyone for staying behind to find his arrow, after 30 minutes Peter Mumford spots the said arrow hiding in the 30 metre markings. Ladies recurver Charlotte George put in another Island game qualifying score along with sister Aalin and Sarah Rigby.
Fita Results
Gents Recurve
Dave Berry 133 5 0 943

Ladies Recurve
Charlotte George 144 15 6 1093 IGQ

Ladies Compound
Sarah Rigby 144 57 24 1284 IGQ
Aalin George 144 42 6 1272 IGQ
Kirsten George 143 12 4 1075

Short Metric Results
Gents Compound
Peter Mumford 72 26 8 637

Ladies Recurve
Barbara Harris 70 9 2 486

Short Metric 3
Junior Gents
Bradley Layton 54 4 1 277

Next weeks round is a Fita 70 or a double 70 for the all day shooters and as normal field setup is 9:30 with sighters at 10:25 for a 10:30 shoot and the afternoon sighters at 1:55 for a 2pm shoot. Good luck to all club members who are away at the British Target Championships at Lilleshall in Shropshire this will be a York/Hereford on Saturday and a Fita round on Sunday.

July 18th 2010 Senior Champs

This week saw the annual Isle of Man outdoor target championships hosted by Isle of Man Archery Club, the weather throw up its joker card by sending rain wind and mist just to give the archers an extra challenge.
Gents compound saw a stiff competition between Adrian Bruce, Allan George and Peter Mumford with Bruce taking the advantage at the 90 metre distance it was a lead that he wouldn’t give up George and Mumford pushed him all the way and Bruce soaked up the pressure as well as the weather to win the title.
Ladies compound saw Joy Gough come up against Kirsten George who was in her first senior comp, missing from the line up was Aalin George due to other team GB commitments in the junior European championships in Winnenden Germany. Gough took the advantage over young George to take the ladies title.
Gents Recurve saw Tony Hartley lift the coveted title with Dave Berry and Michael Tancurin both absent with other commitments
Ladies Recurve saw Charlotte George Anne Rutland and Barbara Harris battle the weather conditions George and Rutland were swapping points and by the half way point there was only 10 points between the two but after the lunch break George pushed home and scored 50 point more at the 50 meter distance an advantage she wouldn’t lose and take the ladies title for an impressive fifth time and still a junior.
Gents Compound
Adrian Bruce 142 47 13 1273 IGQ
Allan George 142 37 11 1248 IGQ
Peter George 144 33 14 1229
Ladies Compound
Joy Gough 143 27 9 1192
Kirsten George 142 5 1 959
Gents Recurve
Tony Hartley 137 14 3 917
Ladies Recurve
Charlotte George 144 15 4 1069 IGQ
Anne Rutland 143 9 3 954
Barbara Harris 130 4 0 778
Next weeks round is a Fita at Ronaldsway sports and social club playing fields with field setup at 9:30 for a 10:30 start. The Isle of Man Archery Club would like to thank Nick Oliver for the loan of his van for the transportation of the archery bosses for the annual Blue Point village fair.

July 4th 2010 Junior Nationals

This week saw extreme weather conditions cancel the scheduled Fita round but with three junior archers away at Lilleshall, Shropshire competing in the GNAS Junior National Outdoor Championships. This competition is a two day event for the juniors with Junior FITA Star and Metric Tournament on Saturday and the Junior National Outdoor Championships held on Sunday the three archers are from the George Clan Charlotte Aalin and Kirsten. Saturday’s Fita and metric equivalent for age groups saw Charlotte shoot a ladies fita scoring 1137 just a hand full of points of her PB and getting 3rd place for her trouble and getting that all important island games qualifying score, Aalin also shot a ladies fita scoring 1303 which equalled her PB putting her in 4th with all the podium shooters being 3-5 years older Aalin also puts in a IG qualifying score in, next up is Kirsten this being her first major comp after changing discipline to compound putting in a score of 1315 a PB at this round which places her 5th. Similar weather conditions as the Isle of Man on Sunday was an organizers nightmare the scheduled national rounds were 12 dozen arrow rounds but with the wind play a big role on the day organizers had to make the decision to shorten the event to different national round which consists 8 dozen arrows. Charlotte does a Long Western round and scores 631 getting 3rd. Aalin shoots a Western and scores 830 winning her class and getting the Salver, Kirsten shot a Short Western scoring 773 getting another PB and finishing 5th. Next week sees the Isle of Man Junior Target Championships hosted by Isle of Man Archery Club also there will be a couple of bosses set for seniors to get a fita 70 seniors are reminded that assistance will be required on scoring and moving of the bosses for the junior champs as usual the times are 09:30 field setup for a 10:30 start all juniors are reminded at this is an all day shoot.

June 20th 2010 Double Fita 70

This week’s double Fita 70 saw one club record fall and three personal bests being achieved. Conditions were fair with south westerly gusting winds which made shooting difficult at times Charlotte George topped the recurve results with a new ladies recurve club record other PB’s were achieved by the ever improving Michael Tancurin and Joy Gough.

Double Fita 70 Recurve results
Charlotte George 144 17 1 1088 CR/PB
Michael Tancurin 143 10 1 983 PB

Double Fita 70 Compound results
Sarah Rigby 144 26 7 1213
Peter Mumford 143 17 7 1195
Joy Gough 144 19 6 1162 PB

Fita 70 recurve results
Tony Hartley 70 6 0 491

Junior Short metric 3 results
Chris Holmes 70 9 2 509
Adam Wright 52 1 0 260

Next weeks Round is a full Fita this round is shot over 70m 60m 50m and 30m 36 arrows at each distance and as usual the times are 09:30 field setup for a 10:30 start for the morning are the afternoon shoot being 1:30 for a 2:00pm start.

May 23rd 2010 Fita

This week archery report come from three different events from Italy, England and home first a trip to the Mediterranean with Team GB’s Aalin George from the Isle of Man Archery Club has won a European Junior Cup silver medal in her first international tournament. Aalin, 14, missed out by the narrowest of margins in her women's compound cadet final against Slovenia's Toja Cerne 17. In windy conditions in Reggio Calabria, Italy, Aalin and her rival finished all square - meaning a sudden death tie break. Both archers scored a 9, but Aalin missed out on the gold medal because her arrow was two millimetres further away from the middle than the Slovenian. Said Performance manager Barry Eley: "It was an agonising way to miss out on the gold medal, but Aalin has done fantastically well this week.”She's the youngest member of the team, it's her international debut, and she has put in a marvellous performance to win an individual silver medal. She's a real star of the future."
Back home sees a Fita round shot, this round is set at 4 different distances 90, 70, 50 and 30 metres 36 arrows at each distance giving a total of 144 arrows. Weather conditions were like we were in the Mediterranean this week with the sun beating down on what was the warmest weekend this year.
Gents Recurve Fita
Michael Tancurin 142 1054 9 3 PB
Tony Hartley 143 1017 16 3
Colin Moore 126 750 4 1
Gents Compound Fita
Peter Mumford 144 1271 50 16
Ladies Compound short metric
Joy Gough 72 636 25 6
Junior Compound metric 3
Kirsten George 144 1310 50 19 PB
Junior Recurve short metric 3
Chris Holmes 71 512 2 1 PB
Charlotte Harris 70 441 2 0 PB
Adam Wright 49 252 1 1 PB
In England two other archers from the club Adrian Bruce and Sarah Rigby visiting the City of Cambridge Bowman doing their annual Fita 4 this is a world record status event and consists of a fita 70 done four times twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday. Not to be outdone by the marvellous news from Italy Rigby puts in a new club record for the ladies compound 664 beating the previous by a massive 15 and Bruce breaks his own record again to push it to 660. Saturday scores Rigby 641, 644, and Bruce 660,644, Sunday scores Rigby 664, 655, and Bruce 650, 643.
Anyone wanting to try for the Island Games selection need to put in three bowman classified scores in that means gents Fita scores are recurve 1065, compound 1248, ladies Fita recurve 1037, compound 1220 good luck everyone isle of Wight awaits. Next weeks round is Fita scratch round and as usual the times are 09:30 field setup for a 10:30 start for the morning are the afternoon shoot being 1:30 for a 2:00pm start.

May 2nd 2010 Windsor Trophy

This weeks round was the Annual Windsor Trophy this round is an imperial round shot over 60yds, 50yds and 40yds. 36 arrows at each distance weather conditions were windy and dry. With the wind being constant this helped the setup of the bows for the day and what a day with two club records going and nine personal bests records went to Charlotte George putting 50 points on the ladies record sister Kirsten broke her sister Aalin record by 48 points for the junior Windsor and this only being her third round and Adrian Bruce brakes the gents compound record by 4points. Personal bests were achieved by Michael Tancurin, Tony Hartley, Anne Rutland, Chris Holmes, Charlotte Harris and Bradley Layton. The recurve competition was extremely close between Charlotte George, Michael Tancurin and Tony Hartley; Tancurin took the advantage at the first distance to go 22 points in the lead but George and Hartley put in great to close the gap to 2 points. George secede the initiative to use the conditions to her favour with Tancurin putting gloves on for the last distance he dropped 22 points for George to take the honours with Tancurin getting the runners up spot and Hartley getting the last spot on the podium also congratulation to Chris Holmes moving up to the senior ranks. Compound trophy went to inform Adrian Bruce only dropping 8 gold’s to take a club record that’s lasted for five years and Peter Mumford getting the runners up spot. Junior Recurve competition saw Charlotte Harris take a lead over Bradley Layton in the first distance that she wouldn’t lose and pushed home her advantage to stand on the top step of the podium. Junior compound competition was Kirsten George this being only her third comp using the compound bow, being the only one in her category did not detour her concentration and managed to blow her older sister record out of the water.

Windsor Recurve Trophy
Charlotte George 108 870 66 CR/PB
Michael Tancurin 108 850 53 PB
Tony Hartley 107 820 48 PB
Anne Rutland 108 816 50 PB
Colin Moore 107 691 25
Louise Glover 108 666 27
Chris Holmes 101 641 19 PB

Windsor Compound Trophy
Adrian Bruce 108 956 100 CR/PB
Peter Mumford 107 873 78

Junior Windsor Recurve
Charlotte Harris 106 808 53 PB
Bradley Layton 106 642 23 PB

Junior Windsor Compound
Kirsten George 108 902 78 CR/PB

Also two club members and commonwealth hopefuls Sarah Rigby and Aalin George were away doing a double Fita 70 and head to head round held over two days at Bronte Archers in Bradford after the first day with slightly windy conditions Aalin scored 607 finishing 5th and Sarah scored 593 finishing 7th these scores put them through to the head to head round and Rigby made it through to the last 8. Second day brought with it a chill and overcast conditions with the chance of rain, this chance

April 18th 2010 Fita

This weeks round was a Fita with fine weather but gusting wind which made shooting tricky the Fita round is shot over four distances 90m, 70m 50m and 30m for the gents and 70m 60m, 50m and 30m for the ladies and 3 dozen arrows at each distance. Seven personal best achieved this week Michael Tancurin, Kirsten George, Barbara Harris, Chris Holmes, Charlotte Harris, Adam Wright and Bradley Layton. Dave Berry was shooting through his injury without pain killers this week; Adrian Bruce puts in the highest score of the day. Sarah Rigby put in a fine performance to top the ladies division. Kirsten George is starting to get grips with her older sister’s compound to put in a six gold end on the 40m distance. Also shooting was Alex Snell turning up late (the norm for him), Louise Glover forgetting her contacts, and Barbara Harris. The junior ranks seen Chris Holmes top the table from Charlotte Harris and Adam Wright with Bradley Layton all putting in great performances with the gusting conditions.
Fita Results
Gents Recurve
Dave Berry 139 1011 8 5
Michael Tancurin 134 865 13 4 PB
Gents Compound
Adrian Bruce 144 1289 53 19
Peter Mumford 143 1106 38 16
Ladies Compound
Sarah Rigby 144 1283 44 12
Joy Gough 144 1222 47 18
Metric 3 Results
Junior Compound
Kirsten George 144 1184 27 7 PB
Short Metric Results
Gents Recurve
Alex Snell 70 570 16 8
Long Metric 1
Ladies Recurve
Louise Glover 71 462 7 3
Short Metric Results
Ladies Recurve
Barbara Harris 70 469 4 1 PB
Short Metric 3 Results
Junior Recurve
Chris Holmes 71 501 6 2 PB
Charlotte Harris 68 438 2 PB
Adam Wright 57 277 1 1 PB
Bradley Layton 29 138 0 0 PB
Next weeks round is a Metric 1 this round is shot over 70m 60m 50m and 30m 36 arrows at each distance and as usual the times are 09:30 field setup for a 10:30 start for the morning are the afternoon shoot being 1:30 for a 2:00pm start.

26th Student Sports Festival 2010