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Archery Training Sessions

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DWAA are considering organisating a series of training sessions aimed at supporting archers to improve their archery skills and improve performance. We are keen to gauge what interest/take up there would be.

Potentially it would be a around 3 sessions at 4-6 weekly intervals starting in the next few weeks. To ensure the expenses of running the sessions are covered there would be a cost.

If you are interested in these sessions please fill out the Expression of Interest. Closing date is 4th February 2023.

DWAA – Expression of Interest – https://forms.office.com/r/cQFhPzY8YT

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Using Drills and Skills to Develop Technique

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Delivered by Lloyd Brown, Three-Time Olympic Team Coach

Sunday 26 March 2023     9.30am – 3.30pm

Strode College Sports Centre, Strode College, Church Rd, Street BA16 0AB

Every coach knows that learning good shooting technique early on sets up an archer for a happy and healthy experience of archery. Understanding the basics of shooting form and teaching these to your beginners from the first session creates a good foundation.

This workshop will explore the Drills & Skills that have been designed to help archers learn, practise, and understand the separate aspects of the shot process.  As the archer becomes competent in each element they can be embedded into the full sequence.

As coaches we need to understand the drills & skills and then be able to explain, enthuse and empower the archer to rehearse them outside of the shooting range.  We want them to perform the action repeatedly to improve their proficiency, become better archers and therefore enjoy the sport more!

Spaces can be booked by completing the form below.

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Archery GB January Challenge

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Kick-start the new year with some healthy competition – the great January Challenge!

Taking part is easy: you simply submit your best score for one Portsmouth round that you have shot on any date in January.

Juniors can enter but will be counted alongside adults. American flat bows should be included in ‘Recurve Barebows’.

Round:
Portsmouth (archers may use either a full or 3 spot face)

Golds are scored as 10’s for this challenge

Categories: 
Archers will be split by bow type and gender within each of the categories below:

  • 1 year in archery or less
  • Under 25 years in archery
  • 25 years in archery or more

Entry dates:
All scores submitted must be shot during January and entered into the system no later than the 5 February.

You can register using the link below. Please note that  scoresheets will be sent out after 9 January. You can still record your scores and then post-date them when you have received the scoresheet.

Postal Entry Link
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GWAS Judges Conference

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The GWAS Judges Conference will be held in the West Buckland Village Hall on Sunday 22nd January at 12.30. This will be the first one since the pandemic began so it is well worth attending. Also it goes towards your annual returns and is a requirement of the J10 that you attend at least some of the conferences.

Please can you let the JLO know if you are able to attend. I would hope to see most of you there and it ensures that we all judge to the same standard. It is also your opportunity to tell the Region what we can do to help you. If there are any topics that you would like us to discuss, please let me know asap.

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DWAA AGM – Sunday 23rd October 2022

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Calling Notice – DWAA AGM – Sunday 23rd October 2022 at 1pm at Tesco Extra, The Bourne Centre, Southampton Road, Salisbury Wiltshire, SP1 2NY

In accordance with the constitution, section 17 of the Association, notice was hereby sent to all Club Secretaries and Associate members last Friday 30th September 2022, calling The Annual General Meeting for 2021-2022 (the previous AGM for 2020-2021 being duly held on Sunday 15th August 2021). Attached were the AGM Agenda and Draft Previous Minutes, along with the EGM Minutes.

AGM Pre-Registration

If you are attending the meeting, please can you confirm by email to janeprior1511@gmail.com no later than the 15th October 2022, so that provisions can be made for the buffet lunch and refreshments, that we will be providing.

Committee Roles:

If you are interested in volunteering for any of the Committee roles, please arrange to fill out the nomination form also attached and send by email to Jane Prior – janeprior1511@gmail.com no later than Saturday 15th October 2022.

Details of the Committee roles can be found using this link  – https://www.dwaa.org.uk/roles/

Current Committee members can be found here – https://www.dwaa.org.uk/committee/

If you have any question, please let me know.

Jane Prior

DWAA Secretary

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GWAS Affiliations 2022/23

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Clubs: The 2022/23 form for submitting Club Affiliations is available here. 

Direct Members: If you are an Archery GB Direct Member and you live in the Grand Western catchment area, then you need to/must join GWAS Direct. The form to complete is available here. Our preference is for you to complete and e-mail the form and pay by direct bank transfer, as indicated on the form; but there is also the option of completing and printing the form and sending payment by cheque to the GWAS Affiliations Secretary.

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Inter-Counties Exmouth

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On Sunday members of the DWAA Senior County Team, took part in the inter-counties at Exmouth

Team Manager Vicky Burden said, “it went really well. We were obviously down some team members to begin with but we did very well to come 2nd in some of the categories. If we had a full team, we would’ve certainly given some counties a run for there money!”

Full results can be found on Ianseo.

Thanks to all those that took part, great team effort!

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GWAS Senior Intercounties 2022

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The GWAS Senior Intercounties 2022 was held on 18 September at Exmouth Archers. GWAS and Counties would like to offer their thanks to Exmouth Archers for hosting the shoot and to the archers who took part. Full results can be found on I@nseo

Regional County Champion Team

1st – 25944 – Devon & Cornwall
2nd – 24323 – Somerset
3rd – 18535 – Dorset & Wiltshire
4th – 18226 – Gloucestershire

Team Trophies

Recurve Men (Team of 5) – G.W.A.S. Challenge Silver Bugle – Devon & Cornwall
Recurve Women (Team of 3) – Dunster Challenge Trophy – Devon & Cornwall
Mixed Recurve (Team of 5 Men and 3 Women) – Janet Faralewski Salver – Devon & Cornwall
Mixed Compound – Compound Team Trophy – Devon & Cornwall
Mixed Longbow (Team of 2 Men and 2 Women) – St Loyes Team Trophy – Devon & Cornwall
Mixed Barebow (Team of 2 Men and 2 Women) – Barebow Team Trophy – Devon & Cornwall

Individual Trophies

Women

Highest Recurve Woman – Saira Chaudhry – Awdry Trophy – Devon & Cornwall
Highest Compound Woman – Chloe Scott – Chippenham Archers Salver – Devon & Cornwall
Highest Longbow Woman – Sophie Twigg – Silver Napkin Rings – Devon & Cornwall
Highest Barebow Woman – Lizzy Rees – GWAS Barebow Salver – Somerset

Men

Highest Recurve Man – Stuart Shapland – Farley Trophy – Devon & Cornwall
Highest Compound Man – Liam Goodes – Dorset and Wilts Salver – Somerset
Highest Longbow Man – Rob Twigg – Silver Napkin Rings – Devon & Cornwall
Highest Barebow Man – Lonja Selter – GWAS Barebow Tankard – Devon & Cornwall