Heading out to Dublin Archers tonight to sign up. WTSC hasn’t gotten sorted with the IAAA yet (though we will), so the fastest way for me to get access to a nearbyish field is to join up. For €40/year and €3/night, it’s not bad value. And it’ll mean I get exposure to other archers, which I think will help a lot with setting up WTSC; I’ll get to observe practises and training and so on first-hand and I plan to ask about the basic stuff a lot so we can figure out how we’re going to do things.
Like, for example, limbs. You start off with 15-20lb limbs, then progress upwards to whatever poundage is right for you; but in the UK there’s a system whereby you don’t buy the ten or twelve sets of limbs that you use as you progress while a beginner – you have a kind of leasing/hire type arrangement, where you pay a deposit and a small amount when you change up. That’s something we’d never have thought of in the beginning (and in fact, didn’t) – but now we know it’s something we have to cope with, we’ll be able to find a way to do so.
Must take the camera and tripod as well…