- Crawley Archery Club

Welcome

Crawley Archery Club are a long standing group of Crawley Archery Club Logo archers with a history going back to 1955. We shoot all year round, and have established facilities for indoor, outdoor and also field archery. Please see our Grounds page for more information regarding when and where we meet.

Members of both FITA and Archery GB, we participate in local and regional events, as well as holding our own annual events for other clubs to participate in. Our Tournaments page has an overview of the events we hold, as well as forms to enter.

Beginners’ courses are held periodically, subject to number of applicants and availability of a suitable venue. Please see the Members page for dates and more details.

- News

Crawley Archery Club to host Albion league match 29th June
Crawley Archery Club will play host to at least one other Sussex Club on Saturday 29th June, and shoot an Albion League competition match.

WHAT IS THE ALBION LEAGUE?
16 clubs in Sussex participate in four leagues. They will shoot against two or three clubs during the summer and the scores are sent to the County organisers to determine the winners. An award is presented to the winner of each division in January of the following year, at the County’s AGM. The top and bottom clubs in each division move up/down between the divisions as a result of their scores. Having not participated for the last few years, we are in the bottom division, ready to work our way up!

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?
Shooting starts at 11am and will finish around 4pm. At which point the host club provides a light tea. This year, the club will host a BBQ. For members of the host club, this means arriving early to put out targets and ‘mark’ the ground (place a mark on the ground where each target must sit, when moved from one distance to the next. Also mark where archers must stand for each target). It also requires we prepare the tea, in this case a BBQ.

WHO SHOOTS, AND WHAT ROUND?
The round is an Albion Round of 9doz arrows; 3doz @ 80yds, 3doz @ 60yds & 3doz @ 50yds.
Everyone is invited to shoot. Juniors will shoot shorter rounds of 9doz arrows, at a distance to match their age group. Longbow and barebow archers can also participate. While only the top 5 adult scores and all junior & longbow scores go into our ‘team total’, all scores go to our Records Officer and contribute to your Handicap and Classification.

WHAT IF IT RAINS?
We get wet.
However, the club owns three gazebos, so just shoot your arrows a little faster.

DO I NEED TO ENROL?
No. As members of the club, you have the right to participate. It is an opportunity to shoot a round under tournament standards, and to meet archers from other clubs. However, to help us judge how many targets to put out, and how many sausages to buy, we’d like to know a week before the event who is going to be there, to shoot, and to help.

DO I NEED A UNIFORM, SPECIAL CLOTHING?
No. Any clothes other than jeans are permitted at tournaments. However, this is an opportunity to show off your Crawley Archery Club Crow polo shirts!

WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO SHOOT?
You can still participate. Help find arrows that have missed the target, score for the Juniors, help prepare the BBQ, make tea. In addition to helping prepare the ground, or help put things away afterwards.

Hope you can make it!
Let the Chair know, if you plan to shoot and/or help out: chair@crawleyarcheryclub.co.uk

Crawley Archery Club Indoor Coaching Sessions a Success!
Crawley Archery Club ran two indoor coaching sessions in March 2013. Over 20 archers came along to each session to receive advice from coaches who had come from a number of clubs, in order to help. In the two hour sessions coaches were on hand to provide practical assistance and guidance on current form, and an archer could take immediate steps to see an improvement in their scores. The Club would like to thank all the coaches who supported Crawley Archers. There is a selection of images from the courses on our Facebook page, see them here.

Crawley Archery Club Field Archery Event
On Sunday 24th March, Crawley Archery in association with Martlets Guild of Archery Coaching held a course to provide an insight into shooting and preparing a field course.

The event was highly successful, with attendees braving the low temperatures and snow to learn skills from the best of the county’s Compound, Recurve and Bare Bow archers.

Crawley Archery Club wish to extend their thanks to the key speakers who made this event so successful; Gary Cole, Ken Burge, Steve Baldwin, and Heather Duggan. The club also wish to thank those who assisted in its preparation; Val Wickenden and Heinrich Grebe. Photos of the event can be found on our Facebook page here.

One of the ideas put forward by attendees of the course, is that we provide a shoot for novice Field Archers, where for each target of novices, there is one experienced field archer to provide an insight into each of the shot targets. The club hopes to prepare such a shoot for early summer.