Well done to both Jack and Jodie who today 21/6/14 went to the Guildford little acorn shoot. Jack came away with a gold medal, while Jodie got Silver after a near perfect round was achieved by the gold medalist . It was a great day with lots of prizes and chocolate handed out for shooting the aliens on the target or six gold ends. After the main competition finished there was a fun head to head. One arrow each furthest from the gold retires. The only problem is that fellow archers can distract you whist on the shooting line. Mostly this was in the form of water pistols, but as Jodie progressed she found that buckets of water were in order. She made it to the semi finals and was completely soaked by then. Good job the sun was out.

Jodie getting watered whist shooting.

On Sunday 1st of June archers from Blind Veterans came over to Ditchling to shoot in a friendly competition. The day was nice and sunny with a gently breeze. There was a good turn out with a few archers competing in their first tournament. The rounds shot were short Windsors and junior Windsors.

Ditchling for a change won. The teams were decided on the top 4 archers after handicap allowances were applied.

The results can be found here Handicaps for St Dunstans June 2014 Results

Team Ditchling
Dave, Sue, Kevin and Cesare

Team Blind Veterans
Carol, Kelvin, David and Paul

 

Jodie shooting in the rain on the Middlesex spring bank holiday Fita.

Jodie and Ben traveled to Middlesex County weekend on the 25/26 of May. Ben shoot on the York on the Sunday in the strong wind and finished on 865. Jodie shot both days. On the Sunday she finished on 1116 for a Bristol 3. On the Monday Jodie just shot in the rain that lasted all day. She shot a Metric 3 and finished on 1154. Jodie came first on both days.

  Jodie waiting to shoot

On Saturday 17th of May Jodie went to the third evesham junior metric. It was a very hot and sunny day. Jodie shot a Metric 3. She came second but shot a personal best.

Ditchling team at Newhaven

Ditchling take 3 golds at the Newhaven Western tournament. Well done to Petra for gold in the ladies recurve, Nathan for gold in the junior gents compound and Jodie for the Junior ladies recurve. Ben got a Silver in the gents recurve and Jacki also took silver in the ladies compound.

Other awards were Nathan getting the gold colour prize and Jodie winning the head to head. She beat a gent compound shooting at 50 yards. Well done. Well done also to Bob, Peter and Jack to taking part. The rain held off but the wind didn’t even so Jodie shot a new country record.

Jodie waving the flag

1st and 2nd place shooting side by side

Bob on the pull again

Bob, Ben, Jodie and Petra, went to the 42nd Crystal Palace Bowman on Sunday the 27th of April. There was a strong wind blowing all day and temperatures were down as well. despite the weather Jodie won overall junior, whist Petra came second in the Hereford. Bob also shot a Hereford and came 4th. Ben shot a new PB and finished 11th. It was a very enjoyable day out.

Jodie getting her trophy at Waterside Archers 1st Fita weekend

3 members of Ditchling ventured across the boarder to Hampshire to the waterside archers 1st Fita weekend. They were Jodie, Nathan and Ben.

Jodie was the overall junior winner with a score of 1179 for a metric 3 round. Nathan came first for the metric 3 junior gents compound with a score of 1213. Ben came 8th in the gents 1440 fita With a score of 978, a few more points for a fita star.

On the way to the shoot the rain came down in buckets, but when we arrived the rain had stopped. The field was very very wet with lots of little lakes every where. There was also a very strong wind blowing across the field. The rain held off for most of the day with only a few showers.  There was also a lot of mud around.

Even though the weather was very poor the atmosphere was great.

Thank you to those who stayed or contributed to the team event, shooting a FITA 18 on Sunday 2nd March 2014. We are still surprised at winning the Sussex Trophy especially after a tiring day.

Ditchling Dynamics (Petra, Jacki, Ben, Taff) – won the Sussex Team Trophy and were 4th overall, just a gold behind 3rd place.

Ditchling Dynamos (Jodie, Bob, Peter, Paul) – 16th overall

Ditchling Demons (Sarah, Jack, Jess and Trevor – our guest archer) – 33rd overall

On 2nd March 2014 several club members shot a Portsmouth round at the County Indoor and Regional Championships at K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley. It was a very long day, especially for those who stayed for the team event! A huge well done to all and especially to those who won their category, three in all, with the Team Event making four!

Ladies Recurve: Petra won the Sussex Championship and Double Round, and was third in SCAS (region)

Ladies and Junior Barebow Champion: Jessica and won the SCAS Junior category and 3rd in SCAS overall

Ladies Compound: Jacki 2nd and 9th in SCAS

Gentlemen Recurve: Taff 4th and 17th in SCAS, Ben 6th and 21st in SCAS, Peter 13th and 43rd in SCAS also 7th in the Double Round, Paul 16th and 51st in SCAS, Bob 21st and 70th in SCAS

Gentleman Barebow: Iain – 2nd and also in SCAS

Junior Gentleman Compound: Jack – 1st and 7th overall, SCAS 4th and 28th overall. Nathan 2nd and 8th overall, SCAS 5th and 29th overall and also 2nd in the Double Round and 6th overall

Junior Ladies Recurve: Jodie 3rd and 9th overall; SCAS 11th and 34th overall

Ditchling Team was second with Petra, Ben and Taff