University of Essex Archery Club (UeAC)
Archery! A new and exciting club right here at The University of Essex.
This is truly a sport for all. A sport for you! Where everyone, of all abilities is welcome. It may be a focused, disciplined sport yet it only takes perseverance to produce easily visible, rapid results. Absolute beginners, within a few sessions, have excelled their expectations and keep coming back for more sessions. The eagerness of members has been overwhelming. As mentioned in the Rabbit last year an impressive 112 students expressed their interest in the club during 2007's fresher’s fair, and a similar number have signed up this year.
On your first session you would be talked through the basics of archery, the parts of the bow and how to shoot safely. The first arrows you shoot will be shot ‘barebow’, without a sight, looking down the arrow to aim, to get a feel for the bow. In a couple of sessions a sight will be introduced to improve accuracy and consistency.
The first year of sessions at the Archery Club, have been a resounding success, all left with smiles on their faces and an enthusiasm to return. We also enjoyed social nights in both Wivenhoe and Colchester where members got to know one another and generally had a good time. On a competitive front we went to York for the BUSA (now BUCS) indoor archery competition and we ranked highly in several individual events with Essex students winning gold in novice longbow, silver in novice recurve and silver in team novice recurve. This amount of sucess was unbelievable for a club less then a year old - this year we hope to challange for medals again with last years members moving up to senior events and this years intake entering into the novice sections.
This year we shall be competing in local, national, and of course at BUCS competitions, both indoors and outdoors, and all members shall be encouraged but not pressured into competing. We may also be hosting a local league at some point during the year - details to follow!
During the year we will also organise a variety of socials so that we can go out as a club and enjoy a night out.
If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact me, Karlis Zivtins (kzivti@essex.ac.uk).
I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at the sessions.
We will sometimes have midweeks sessions depending on the avalibility of the sports hall - and throughout the year we will organise a variety of socials. Details of this and any other archery news will be circulated via email and posted on facebook.
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Training Times:
Our Fresher Sessions will be on the 4th and 11th of october in the sport centre from 6pm till 8pm.
Sessions are normally on saturdays and sundays at 6pm till 8 pm, with many members heading off to top bar for a few drinks afterwards. Training sessions take place in the Sports-Centre main hall on courts 1 & 6 (alongside the far wall as you come in through the main door).