![]() ![]() He is focussing entirely on target archery no broadheads and skull penetration figures here. Whether he can seriously challenge the Easton machine perhaps depends on long-entrenched attitudes changing the product is obviously excellent. He is gradually working on a business model based on excellent quality, personal service, and strong relationships with pro shops. ![]() I spend a good deal of time talking to René Velarde Rast (above) of Aurel Archery, based in Germany, a man manufacturing some beautiful quality carbon arrows. Perhaps if you hurtle round the ring road fast enough you can achieve escape velocity from this Travelodge of a city.Īurel Archery shafts at the 2014 European Archery Festival. Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, California, that: “The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn’t any there there.” When you get to Telford, there wasn’t anything there in the first place, but someone replaced it with f**k all anyway. Telford: the town that makes Slough look like Florence. Everyone in local hotels is turning up with muddy shoes, including me. You have to struggle through the muddy verges or take your chances on the A-road. Deserted on a Saturday night at 9pm, you can’t get from the “town centre” to the International Centre on the pavement – they’ve ripped it out and haven’t put anything down. A few miles to the south is the bucolic Ironbridge, cradle of the Industrial Revolution and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But here is just the urtext inflorescence of Crap Britain, a vaporous hell of Wetherspoons and Costa, an ring-road Erewhon, a post-war concrete conurban fantasy guiding all to worship at the crumbling temple complex in the middle – which now has an Asda. One of the more famous 1960s new towns, it was created by municipal parthenogenesis, when someone decided to legitimise the existence of a bunch of Shropshire towns and villages by birthing a shopping centre in the middle and uniting them all in joyful retail. Why Telford, Chris? “Because we’ve used the area before, we saw real potential in the venue, there’s good transport links, hotels on site, plus we got excellent feedback from the archers who’ve been here before (the Back to Back tournament).” All excellent reasons. But unfortunately, it’s still Telford. Next day will be painless.Ĭhris Wells is the communications director for the EAF. Brady sighs just a little and adjusts his cap, then congratulates him. If the preceding competitive segments were brutal, this is an even nastier weapon. Faucheron holds and holds and holds (usually a road to disaster) yet somehow still manages to pull out the tens. © 2014 The Infinite Curveīrady’s shots seem so strong, so still, so relaxed, that I wonder how he can be beaten. Recurve shootdown at the 2014 European Archery Festival. In barely more than ten minutes, all that work is over.īrady Ellison. (And Eliska, unfortunately, hammered by a German archer in the 1/16). The ones who get featured in the programme. Over the PA, the results of matches are announced, the fallen are a who’s-who of big names. Your odds of making the final table are tiny. Brutal on the nerves, brutal on the psyche. The set system allows for limited opportunities for catching up an error, but the fact remains that international archery competitions are brutal. If your opponent can and does score thirty for a three-arrow end, you must be able to do the same. With no wind or rain and the short distance involved, the indoor scores at this level are so high, that the winner or loser can be decided on basically “who blinks first.” Who is the first to shoot a nine rather than a ten. © 2014 The Infinite CurveĪs the head to head competition starts, the focus narrows, and the thousand-yard-stares come out.
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