Important No ce Some dates to remember

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19 Ferry Ave, Melrose Park, SA 5039 Phone: (08) 8276 1425 Web: www.archeryacademy.com.au BLACKWELL FUNERALS, GLENSIDE

Duncan Ferguson Mobile: 0418 832 644 Phone: (08) 8338 1681 Web: www.blackwellfunerals.com.au W.F. GRAY & CO, PLUMBERS, ADELAIDE

Jeﬀ Nicoll Mobile: 0418 806 095 Phone: (08) 8212 3050

Important No ce Locks To The Flags And Targets

When unlocking the cau on ﬂags that they leave the padlocks on the chains where provided. This will deters members of the public from taking them.

Changes to Regula on 39.5 - Uniform

Archers who received genuine sponsorship from a recognised archery supplier and/or manufacturers of archery equipment currently used by the archer, should be proud of their sponsorships and if they wish to wear their sponsor shirts they should be prepared to present in front of their peers who their sponsorship is from and why they have been given to sponsorship and be permi ed to wear at club events.

Some dates to remember

18 – 19 March, 25 – 26 March Archery Australia 2017 Club Challenge

18 March Philadelphia Shoot – Cressy Bowman

Saturday, 18 March, 9.30 am Rundle Reserve

19 March State Ranking Event – Target

AAC, 19 March, 9.00 am at AAC Club Grounds

26 March Jim Hale Memorial Open Tournament

9.00 am

1 April Field - QRE/Ranking Shoot

1.30 pm Shepherds Hill Recrea on Park

16 April ARCHERY SA Double Target 720 QRE

Star ng 7.30 am Mylor Oval

23 April GSA Vera Pennington Memorial (Orphans) Shoot

10.00 am Strathalbyn

25 April Target QRE (single)

Cressy Bowman – 9.30 am Rundle Reserve

2017 Issue No. 02 Feb

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AAC Library Magazine/Books/DVD Reviews: February 2017 By Randy Coon “New” Magazine Reviews – Bow Interna onal:

Review of newest Bow Interna onal (Issue #112): – all “shoo ng form” ar cles have been reviewed and “scanned” for inclusion in AAC Library

Issue #112 (January 2017): Key “Shoo ng Form” + Equipment Ar cles

“Best Foot Forward” – get your stance right/correct - Duncan Busby

 Good stance is the “founda on” of any archer’s shoot & form

 Most beginner’s start with a square or neutral stance (feet parallel to the target, but most end up with “open stances” (feet turned slightly inward)

 If sight wandering le or right on the “gold” at full draw, your stance may need adjus ng

 Star ng in neutral stance, draw & close eyes for 3-4 seconds – then adjust your stance accordingly to draw & be on “gold” 100% of mes

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“Bow Buying for Beginners” – A-to-Z of recurve bow buying – A. Smith

“Arrow Sha Selec on – arrow diameter vs. wind dri – James Park

“Olympic Equipment” – choice of most Olympian compe tors – Andrew Smith

 Limb ﬁ ngs (Interna onal “ILF” vs. Hoyt Formula), Limbs (Hoyt, W&W, etc.), pressure bu ons (Beiter, W&W, etc.), arrow sha s (Easton vs. others), Risers, Sights (Shibuya, AXCEL, etc.), Clickers & Vanes

 Collated by BBC viewing & coverage of the last Olympic games

“Ask the Experts” Sec on:

 “Ge ng vanes to a ach ﬁrmly to arrows” – Adrian Tippins

 “Compound archer ‘hand-ﬁre’ problem resolu on” – Roy Rose

“ARCHERY FOCUS” Magazine – available now “Only On-Line” in PDF format…annual subscrip on (6 issues) is $32/annum.

A. Published by Claudia Stevenson & Editor Steve Ruis with a dozen archery technical contribu ng writers like Larry Wise, Tom Doriga and other top interna onal archers. Sole purpose of Archery Focus is to concentrate on improving archer’s shoo ng form and scores.

A.1 Image of the new, current January 2017 Archery Focus Magazine and ar cles are as below:

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Adelaide Archery Club contact addresses

General enquiries [email protected] Enquiries from the public Administra on [email protected] Membership etc.

President [email protected] Club President (copy to the Secretary) Publicity Oﬃcer [email protected] Newsle er, Website, Facebook page Secretary [email protected] Most other correspondence

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Email your contribu ons to [email protected] Special shout-out to Simon Cameron, Michael Hamdan, Denis Harvey, Andre Laforet, Gerald Ma hews, David Milazzo, Mick Patelias and Michael Short who just celebrated their birthdays recently.

Many happy returns.