Photo of a man's forearm. The inside of the arm close to the elbow is swollen and discoloured due to severe bruising.

Another photo of a man's forearm. The inside of the arm is now more swollen and discoloured.

[Minor injury, archery, stupidity]

Some painful lessons from archery practice today.

Shortly after starting to shoot I had a misfire. The bowstring slammed into my arm and the arrow fell just in front of me. I couldn't work out what had happened. There didn't […]

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Thinking ahead to the school holidays and wondering whether we'll be able to do some archery practice while we're in Brisbane for two weeks starting over the Easter weekend.

Looking for target archery clubs that allow visiting members of other Archery Australia affiliated clubs to shoot on […]

Photo of the head of an Eastern Water Skink poking out from under a corrugated steel wall.

The photos that aren't of an archery target are of the archery lizard. This water skink was keeping an eye on things from under the club house.

#LizardPosting #Archery #SkinksOfMastodon #StabbingAtADistance #LizardsOfMastodon #Skink #Lizard

Screenshot of a Google Photos photo feed. Almost all the photos are very similar shots of an archery target with arrows in it.

What my photo feed looks like after an archery practice session. I do this mainly to keep count of how many ends I've shot. Today, while the kid was in the youth squad coaching session, I got through 20 ends (120 arrows).

I am feeling that I might be able to […]

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Photo of a target bow on a stand at an outdoor archery range, with targets in the distance.

Photo of a plaque, saying "This facility is a 2000 Games venue for the world's finest athletes. We are grateful for its contribution to the Games of the New Millennium."

Meanwhile I did manage to get 11 ends in myself, mostly before the rain started. Challenging conditions with blustery winds from the start, but I did OK.

#Archery #StabbingAtADistance

The SOPA Youth Squad did manage to do an hour and a half of shooting by setting up on the under cover shooting line, but even they retreated inside the club house eventually.

#Archery #StabbingAtADistance

Photo of an outdoor archery range on a sunny day, taken from a little behind the shooting line. There are many targets and freshly painted lines in the grass.

Photo of a view shooting a bow and arrow while a coach looks on.

Warm at the range today for the kid's and my coaching session with coach Alex.

The facilities at SOPA are really very good, especially when the lines are freshly repainted and the targets have been recently repaired.

#Archery #StabbingAtADistance

Photo of the tail end of 8 arrows, lined up on a bench. All the arrows have missing or danged fletchings. Nearby is some fletching glue, and a couple of bags of spare vanes.

Photo of the tail end of 8 arrows, lined up on a bench. They all have a full set of fletchings now.

You can call me Fletcher...

8 of the kids 12 arrows had a vane that had either come off entirely or was starting to come away, and on every arrow it was the upper vane. Odd.

Anyway, I have glued fresh vanes onto all the arrows. Hopefully the kid's fletchings […]

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Photo of an archery target with 6 arrows in it: 2 nines, 3 eights, and a seven.

I managed to get the kid to join the archery club's youth coaching programme for the first time today. He wasn't keen, but I think it'll do him a lot of good.

While that was going on I did some practice by myself, shooting for only the second time since 2 months […]

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I am realising how useful videoing each other might be for working on our form. I gave the kid a few suggestions after watching this slow-mo.

#Archery #StabbingAtADistance

Photo of a large outdoor archery range, with a few people shooting.

Selfie with the archery range in the background. I'm wearing a club bucket hat, and club polo.

Done on the range today, for a bit of individual archery practice.

I shot 120 arrows at 40 metres distance. Pretty inconsistent results but useful nonetheless, I think.

#Archery